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11 Apr 2009, 1:03 pm
The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required railroads in that state to provide "equal but separate" cars for blacks and whites. [read post]
22 Apr 2021, 5:13 pm by Emily Coward
Rev. 785, 789 (2020) (examining data from Louisiana and Mississippi and concluding that “black jurors’ “qualifications” for jury service, or lack thereof, operate as an important instrument of racial exclusion today”). [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 12:19 am by Lawrence Solum
Ferguson the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Louisiana statute mandating separate but (in reality not) equal railway accommodations for black and white passengers did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 3:45 pm by Michael Froomkin
Louisiana Governor Jindal will ask the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the decision in Chisom v. [read post]
The case stems from a demonstration to protest the death of Alton Sterling, a Black man who was shot at close range by two police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in mid-2016. [read post]
9 May 2019, 2:12 pm by Andrew Hamm
Board of Education, which Black had joined Wesberry v. [read post]
The result is significant because Louisiana has a trigger law that would automatically ban all abortions if Roe v. [read post]
2 Dec 2007, 7:11 pm
Louisiana, asking whether a Louisiana prosecutor improperly struck black jurors from the defendant's murder trial in light of a subsequent comparison of the case during the penalty phase to the O.J. [read post]
10 Sep 2016, 4:00 am by Berniard Law Firm
In examining this problem, the appeals court looked to the Louisiana Supreme Court, and its decision in Duncan v. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 4:08 am
The Louisiana Supreme Court, however, ruled on May 22 that the Supreme Court's 1977 decision barring capital punishment for rape (Coker v. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 12:16 am
Although the Supreme Court struck down race-based strikes of potential jurors more than two decades ago in Batson v. [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Walter Olson
Racial activist Deray Mckesson led a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that illegally occupied a roadway; in the ensuing confrontations, an unidentified person threw a missile that seriously injured a police officer. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 5:22 am
Apparently, Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace, actually refuses to officiate marriages of interracial couples. [read post]