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  2. Cox v. Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536 (1965), is a United States Supreme Court case based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It held that a state government cannot employ " breach of the peace " statutes against protesters engaging in peaceable demonstrations that may potentially incite violence.

  3. Bergeron v. Bergeron - Wikipedia

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    Bergeron v. Bergeron, 492 So.2d 1193 (1986), is a landmark child custody case decided by the Louisiana Supreme Court. [1] In the dispute, the Louisiana Supreme Court held that, in order to modify a custody dispute that has previously been a considered decree, the person seeking the modification bears a heavy burden of proving that the current custody is so deleterious to the child as to ...

  4. Ramos v. Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83 (2020), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that guilty verdicts be unanimous in criminal trials. See 590 U.S. 83 at 90 (2020) "Wherever we might look to determine what the term “trial by an impartial jury” meant at the time of the Sixth ...

  5. Supreme Court to review Louisiana congressional map after ...

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    The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a messy legal battle over how to fix a racially gerrymandered design. The ...

  6. Duncan v. Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Defendant convicted, Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court of Louisiana; cert. denied, 195 So. 2d 142 (La. 1967). Subsequent: Rehearing denied, 392 U.S. 947 (1968). Holding; The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in all criminal cases which - were they to be tried in a federal court - would come within the Sixth Amendment's ...

  7. Louisiana court may reopen window for lawsuits by adult ...

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    Louisiana’s Supreme Court agreed Friday to reconsider its recent ruling that wiped out a state law giving adult victims of childhood sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits.

  8. Louisiana legislators consider giving themselves the ... - AOL

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    In a legislative session devoted mostly to tax policy, Louisiana lawmakers are taking steps to empower themselves to set up new state courts outside of the traditional judicial system.

  9. Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux - Wikipedia

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    An appeals court rejected the district court's action. [3] On appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the district court ruling was affirmed on the grounds that eminent domain is “intimately involved with sovereign prerogative,” that the Louisiana law cited was unclear, and that a federal ruling based upon that law could therefore not be ...