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7 Jan 2022, 6:03 pm by Mark Walsh
The court did so again in today’s cases: National Federation of Independent Business v. [read post]
Plessy was arrested in 1892 for deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “separate but equal” train car accommodations for Blacks and whites. [read post]
28 Dec 2021, 11:11 am by John Floyd
Louisiana (2008): The Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution for the conviction of the rape of a child. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 2:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Key Findings: Excessive tax rates on cigarettes in some states induce substantial black and gray market movement of tobacco products into high-tax states from low-tax states or foreign sources. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 12:26 am by David Kopel
Some polling place restrictions after the Civil War Louisiana in 1870 prohibited arms carrying on election day when the polls were open. [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Eric Halliday, Rachael Hanna
Recent media coverage of this trend has tended to characterize such laws as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 12:41 pm
Wells gave them black costumes, ski masks, and realistic-looking prop weapons that looked like high-powered automatic assault rifles and other firearms. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
” Frustration and Persistence for Activists on the 56th Anniversary of the Voting Rights MSN – Vanessa Williams (Washington Post) | Published: 8/6/2021 The 1965 Voting Rights Act is considered the most significant achievement of the civil rights movement because it removed Jim Crow-era laws that blocked the vast majority of Black people from voting, especially in the South. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 12:30 pm by John Ross
In the latest turn in a Baton Rouge, La. police officer's lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, the Fifth Circuit hands a victory to fans of state tort law and lawblogs by certifying a question to the Louisiana Supreme Court based in part on a theory it read on a blog somewhere. [read post]
18 May 2021, 4:55 am by David Oscar Markus
The only Black juror at Edwards’ trial voted to acquit Edwards, who is also Black, on all counts. [read post]