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| CIVIL PROCEDURE
| | 1. | Cheron v. LCS Corrections Services and State of Louisiana
2004-CC-0703 (La. 01/19/05) [17 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 Patrick R. Cheron, while an inmate of Pine Prairie Correctional Facility, a private prison in Evangeline Parish operated by LCS Corrections ... view full summary | | STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
| | 2. | "Rededication" of sales and use tax revenue is invalid.
Denham Springs Econ. Dev. Dist. v. All Taxpayers, 2004-C-1674 (La. 2/4/05) [15 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 The legislature created the Denham Springs Economic Development District ("District"), composed of 75 acres of property within the city of D... view full summary | | 3. | "Defense of Marriage" amendment does not violate "one object" rule.
Forum for Equality PAC v. McKeithen, 2004-CA-2477 c/w 2004-CA-2523 (La. 01/19/05) [35 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 Plaintiffs filed suit to challenge 2004 La. Acts No. 926, which submitted to the voters in a statewide election a proposed amendment to the ... view full summary | | 4. | Challenges to "Defense of Marriage" amendment dismissed; prior action is res
judicata.
Forum for Equality PAC v. McKeithen, 2004-OC-2551 (La. 01/19/05) [12 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 The underlying facts of this case are related in the Court's opinion in Forum for Equality PAC v. McKeithen, 2004-CA2477 c/w 2004-CA2523, in... view full summary | | 5. | Increased employer taxes for state employees' retirement system are valid.
La. Municipal Ass'n v. State, and Firefighters' Retirement System, 2004-CA-0227 (La. 1/19/05) [87 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 Plaintiffs in this complex case are associations, political subdivisions, and fire districts that employ firefighters in Louisiana. Plaintif... view full summary | | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
| | 6. | "Crime against nature" still enforceable against prostitutes; distinguishing
Supreme Court jurisprudence.
State v. Thomas, 04-KA-0559 (La. 1/19/05) [11 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 Defendant was charged with soliciting an undercover officer to engage in "unnatural oral copulation for compensation" in violation of La.R.S... view full summary | | CRIMINAL
| | 7. | Failure to introduce mental health evidence in support of insanity defense is not ineffective assistance of counsel.
State v. Russell, 04-KP-1622 (La. 2/25/05) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 The district court granted defendant's post-conviction application for relief, finding that defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance ... view full summary | | ADMINISTRATIVE
| | 8. | Insurance Commissioner cannot appeal ALJ's regulatory ruling; Admin. Procedure Act construed.
J. Robert Wooley , Acting Comm'r of Insurance v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., 2004-CA-0882, (La. 01/19/05)
[42 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 13, Issue 2 The two-phased litigation began when State Farm Fire and Casualty Ins. Co. ("State Farm") filed with the Insurance Commissioner a Rental Con... view full summary |
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