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Death penalty appeals are automatic as a matter of right. All other appellate review of lower court decisions in the state is obtained by the writ of certiorari process as provided for by Article V, Section 5 (A) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and Rule X of the Supreme Court Rules.
The Louisiana Supreme Court issued a writ last week dismissing the First Baptist Church in Bossier City as a defendant itself but suggested the plaintiffs instead target individual leaders.
[citation needed] An application for supervisory writs is also the mechanism for seeking review of a district court's decision to grant or deny a petition for post-conviction relief. A party aggrieved by the Court of Appeal's ruling on a supervisory writ may then apply for supervisory writs in the Louisiana Supreme Court. [citation needed]
The Judiciary of Louisiana is defined under the Constitution and law of Louisiana and is composed of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal, the District Courts, the Justice of the Peace Courts, the Mayor's Courts, the City Courts, and the Parish Courts. The Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court is the chief ...
(The Center Square) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state’s authority to clear unauthorized homeless encampments from public property, dissolving a lower court’s ...
The state Supreme Court's 5-2 ruling Wednesday upholds a so-called look-back law that was passed in 2021 and amended in 2022. ... according to the Supreme Court record. Louisiana Attorney General ...
The writ is usually issued to a state supreme court (including high courts of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), but is occasionally issued to a state's intermediate appellate court for cases where the state supreme court denied certiorari or review and ...
The Supreme Court paved the way for Louisiana to use a congressional map in this year's election ... saying it was a "bedrock tenet" of election law that "the rules of the road must be clear and ...