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The Plight Of The Unpopular Poor: Sex Offender Registration And Notification Costs To Indigent Offenders In Louisiana, Justin Dicharia Feb 2019

The Plight Of The Unpopular Poor: Sex Offender Registration And Notification Costs To Indigent Offenders In Louisiana, Justin Dicharia

Louisiana Law Review

The article explores the inadequacies to indigent offenders in the sex offender registration and notification laws of Louisiana and recommends solutions to fix them.


States’ Rights To Protect Gun-Owning Patients From Politicized Physician Speech, Frank Griffin M.D., J.D. Feb 2019

States’ Rights To Protect Gun-Owning Patients From Politicized Physician Speech, Frank Griffin M.D., J.D.

Louisiana Law Review

The article examines the U.S. states' obligations to protect patients' best interests and evaluates physicians' free speech rights in the patient-physician relationship.


Bailing Out Louisiana: A Proposal To Reform Louisiana’S Money-Based Bail Bond System, Milton J. Hernandez Iv Feb 2019

Bailing Out Louisiana: A Proposal To Reform Louisiana’S Money-Based Bail Bond System, Milton J. Hernandez Iv

Louisiana Law Review

The article offers a background on the bail system in Louisiana and discusses recent developments in bail reform in other jurisdictions around the U.S., particularly in states adopting risk assessment-based systems.


“License, Registration, And State Funding, Please”: Overhauling Louisiana’S Traffic-Ticket Funding Scheme Of Public Defenders, Mary Grace Richardson Feb 2019

“License, Registration, And State Funding, Please”: Overhauling Louisiana’S Traffic-Ticket Funding Scheme Of Public Defenders, Mary Grace Richardson

Louisiana Law Review

The article recommends a funding structure for public defenders in Louisiana that eliminates budget shortfalls by substituting the district-level user-pay system, in which all criminal defendants shoulder the cost of indigent defense through court fees and fines, for a centralized, state-funded general revenue stream.


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“To This Tribunal The Freedman Has Turned”: The Freedmen’Sbureau’S Judicial Powers And The Origins Of The Fourteenthamendment, Hon. Bernice B. Donald, Pablo J. Davis Jan 2019

“To This Tribunal The Freedman Has Turned”: The Freedmen’Sbureau’S Judicial Powers And The Origins Of The Fourteenthamendment, Hon. Bernice B. Donald, Pablo J. Davis

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The article explores the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau as a significant part of the context of the Fourteenth Amendment's enactment by looking at the Bureau's judicial powers, and their grant, exercise, and political effects.


The History Of The Loyal Denominator, Christopher R. Green Jan 2019

The History Of The Loyal Denominator, Christopher R. Green

Louisiana Law Review

This article offers a defense on the view that aims to fit the text and history of the U.S. Constitution, preserve Fourteenth Amendment legitimacy, and clarify the Fourteenth Amendment's author by framing it as an expression of the victorious Union's Republican principles.


State Standing For Equality, Seth Davis Jan 2019

State Standing For Equality, Seth Davis

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The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Alfred L. Snapp & Son Inc. v. Puerto Rico ex rel. Barez and offers a reading of the case as an equality law case in order to take stock of state standing for equality.


The Creation And Destruction Of The Fourteenth Amendment Duringthe Long Civil War, Orville Vernon Burton Jan 2019

The Creation And Destruction Of The Fourteenth Amendment Duringthe Long Civil War, Orville Vernon Burton

Louisiana Law Review

The article investigate the creation and destruction of the Fourteenth Amendment during the Civil War and how the U.S. Supreme Court undid most of the gains of the Fourteenth Amendment toward equality and equal rights for black citizens.


No Act Of God Necessary: Expanding Beyond Louisiana’S Force Majeure Doctrine To Imprévision, Christopher R. Handy Jan 2019

No Act Of God Necessary: Expanding Beyond Louisiana’S Force Majeure Doctrine To Imprévision, Christopher R. Handy

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses the strict implementation of force majeure doctrine in Louisiana and offers a realistic solution to the states's inflexible approach to force majeure which requires a legislative revision of the Louisiana Civil Code.


A Warranty Expired: Time To Rid Louisiana Of Fitness For Ordinaryuse, Sara Daniel Jan 2019

A Warranty Expired: Time To Rid Louisiana Of Fitness For Ordinaryuse, Sara Daniel

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The article calls for the repeal of the warranty of fitness for ordinary use as a separate warranty in Louisiana which is vital for the preservation of redhibition and for the development of the warranty of fitness for particular use.


Don’T Rock The Boat: Developing A Uniform System Of Maritimepunitive Damages After Baker And Townsend, Josie N. Serigne Jan 2019

Don’T Rock The Boat: Developing A Uniform System Of Maritimepunitive Damages After Baker And Townsend, Josie N. Serigne

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The article argues that although the 1996 U.S. Supreme Court case, Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Calhoun, which involved a minor, Natalie Calhoun, who died in a jet Yamaha, provides an additional avenue to recover punitive damages for non-seamen maritime torts in territorial waters, Baker and Townsend cases have rendered it unnecessary.


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Demystifying Enrichment Without Cause, Nikolaos A. Davrados May 2018

Demystifying Enrichment Without Cause, Nikolaos A. Davrados

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The article examines the characteristic features, and underlying principles of enrichment without cause as a source of obligations and a special expression of the more general principle of unjustified enrichment and application of enrichment without cause in Louisiana law.


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For Thanassi, Robert Thibeaux May 2018

For Thanassi, Robert Thibeaux

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The poem "For Thanassi" by Robert Thibeaux is presented. First Line: Aeschylus found many truths in justice; Last Line: Like the Romans, law's origins, law's odes.


In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos, Elizabeth R. Carter May 2018

In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos, Elizabeth R. Carter

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Thanassi Yiannopoulos: Reminiscences Of A Life Well Lived, Katherine Shaw Spaht May 2018

Thanassi Yiannopoulos: Reminiscences Of A Life Well Lived, Katherine Shaw Spaht

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The article focuses on the work of law professor Thanassi Yiannopoulos such as revision of the Louisiana Civil Code, revision of community property law in 1978 and mentions his intellectual ability.


A Tribute To Thanassi: The Influence Of Justinian On American Common Law Property, Sally Brown Richardson May 2018

A Tribute To Thanassi: The Influence Of Justinian On American Common Law Property, Sally Brown Richardson

Louisiana Law Review

In this article, the author discusses the contribution of law professor A.N. Thanassi Yiannopoulos towards property law and mentions civil law's impact on American property law and fluidity of property rights.


What Law Governs Forum Selection Clauses, Symeon C. Symeonides May 2018

What Law Governs Forum Selection Clauses, Symeon C. Symeonides

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The article focuses on the laws regarding forum selection clauses present in choice-of-law question and systems require the chosen court to undertake a choice of-law analysis for selecting the state when law of the forum state.


Good Faith In Louisiana Property Law, John A. Lovett May 2018

Good Faith In Louisiana Property Law, John A. Lovett

Louisiana Law Review

The article focuses on role of good faith with a prerequisite to the establishment of a predial servitude benefiting the owner of a building that encroaches on the property of a neighbor and immovable property without a valid title.


Bond For Deed In Louisiana: 99 Problems But Being A Sale Ain’T One, Endya L. Hash May 2018

Bond For Deed In Louisiana: 99 Problems But Being A Sale Ain’T One, Endya L. Hash

Louisiana Law Review

The article focuses on how parties use bond for deed contracts and treatment of a bond for deed contract as a sale protects the parties, clarifies applicable law, and gives effect to the true nature of this contract in Louisiana.


Brainstorming Solutions To Rainstorms: State Liability For Construction In Flood Zones, Derbigny Willis May 2018

Brainstorming Solutions To Rainstorms: State Liability For Construction In Flood Zones, Derbigny Willis

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The article focuses on state and federal roles in flood mapping, flood insurance, and regulations in flood zones and examines the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council, Louisiana and amended building code in response to the August 2016 flood.


Alexander V. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P.: The Fifth Circuit’S Voyage Away From Reality And The Seamen Renounced In Its Wake, Colton V. Acosta May 2018

Alexander V. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P.: The Fifth Circuit’S Voyage Away From Reality And The Seamen Renounced In Its Wake, Colton V. Acosta

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The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Alexander v. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P. wherein the Court held that the employee work on board a vessel for determining seaman status and exposes employers to greater liability.