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The Supreme Court of Louisiana is the highest court and court of last resort. It is composed of seven justices and meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans . The Court has original jurisdiction over matters arising from disciplinary matters involving the bench and bar. [1] The Court has exclusive appellate jurisdiction over any case where a ...
The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by 2 Stat. 701, [1] [2] several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by ...
This organized the state into seven judicial districts, each consisting of groups of parishes. In 1816, the first official map of the state used the term parish, as did the 1845 constitution. Since then, the official term for Louisiana's primary civil divisions has been parishes. The 19 original parishes were joined by Catahoula Parish in 1808.
Louisiana's Ten Commandments law "may be a bridge too far" for Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, says Lawrence Moore, a Jesuit priest and law professor at ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an ...
Three federal judges who threw out Louisiana's new congressional map asked the state's chief elections officer Monday for a hard deadline on the latest a map can be in place to conduct the Nov. 5 ...
Louisiana War Cross. Jeffrey Martin Landry (born December 23, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024 and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district ...
The secretary of state of Louisiana (French: Secrétaire d'État de la Louisiane) is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Louisiana and serves as the head of the Louisiana Department of State. The position was created by Article 4, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution. The current secretary of state is Nancy Landry.