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  • IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, PLEASE COMPLY: LOUISIANA’S OUTMODED ADVANCE DIRECTIVE LEGISLATION AND THE PATIENT’S NEED FOR REFORM 
    LaBruzza, Allyson R. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    The ethical complexities associated with substituting one’s personal perspective on end-of-life care for another’s are monumental. As a result, “[b]oth state legislatures and courts at every level, including the United ...
  • POST-DISASTER HOUSING THROUGH THE LENS OF LITIGATION: THE KATRINA HOUSING JUSTICE DOCKET 
    Finger, Davida (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    This Article discusses post-disaster housing rights violations and corresponding litigation following the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes. The Introduction offers a brief reflection, at the ten- year anniversary of Hurricanes ...
  • THE REBIRTH OF A CITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, ETHICS, AND NEW ORLEANS 
    Wildes, Kevin Wm. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    This past year as New Orleans marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, many people celebrated the progress that the city has made. Progress has been slow and there are many reasons for that. The extent of the ...
  • A LETTER TO SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES: THIRTEEN LESSONS LEARNED BY KATRINA SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES LOOKING BACK TEN YEARS LATER 
    Quigley, William P. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    This Article takes the form of a letter from Gulf Coast Katrina social justice advocates. Specifically, the Letter is addressed to those who work for social justice after a disaster strikes.1 This is our attempt to tell ...
  • STATE OF EMERGENCY: AN EMERGENCY CONSTITUTION REVISITED 
    Crusto, Mitchell F. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Over the last ten years, various state and local governments in the United States have declared states of emergency that raise concerns over the protection of civil liberties. In response, this Article recommends that the ...
  • J. SKELLY WRIGHT’S DEMOCRATIC FIRST AMENDMENT 
    Kalb, Johanna (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    In Buckley v. Valeo, a 1976 challenge to the post-Watergate Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), the Supreme Court set out a framework for evaluating campaign finance regulation that has survived to the present day. The ...
  • GREATNESS IN A LOWER FEDERAL COURT JUDGE: THE CASE OF J. SKELLY WRIGHT 
    Fallon, Richard H., Jr. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    In a poem entitled “A Psalm of Life,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time . . . . As much as—if ...
  • FOUR LOUISIANA GIANTS IN THE LAW 
    Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., whose work and days are celebrated in the lecture series, studied law at Loyola Law School, where he was a classmate of my late dear colleague, once Chief Judge of the D. C. Circuit, J. ...
  • JUDGE J. SKELLY WRIGHT AND THE RACIAL DESEGREGATION OF LOUISIANA 
    Kennedy, Randall (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Judge J. Skelly Wright’s principal claim to historic prominence resides in rulings he made on behalf of racial justice. Over the course of his thirty-seven years on the bench, he made notable contributions in other areas ...
  • JUDGE J. SKELLY WRIGHT: POLITICS, MONEY AND EQUALITY 
    Lee, Carol F. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    In this essay, I discuss briefly the values of equality and honest government in Judge Wright’s career before they intersected in the area of campaign finance. I then contrast Judge Wright’s views on money, politics and ...
  • J. SKELLY WRIGHT: A CLERK’S PERSPECTIVE OF THE JUDGE 
    Katzen, Sally (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    For the clerks, Judge Wright’s reputation preceded him. For the vast majority, he was their number one choice for a clerkship, for he not only sat on what was then the second most powerful court in the land, but he also ...
  • BUSH V. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: THE SECOND BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, CHRONICLES OF THE CASE AND THE JUDGE 
    Wright, James E., III (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board was a decade-long struggle to have the law as declared by the U.S. Supreme Court enforced on the public schools in New Orleans. Because it was an epic struggle, it has been called the ...
  • CHOOSING OUR HEROES: SKELLY WRIGHT AND ATTICUS FINCH 
    Steiker, Carol S. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    After serving as a law clerk first for Skelly Wright and then—with the assistance of Judge Wright I am sure—for Justice Thurgood Marshall, I worked for four years as a public defender before joining the legal academy. In ...
  • J. SKELLY WRIGHT AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM 
    Seidman, Louis Michael (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    J. Skelly Wright was the most courageous and influential lower court judge of his generation. Wright was quiet, modest, even awkward in his personal interactions, but that demeanor masked a fierce determination to use his ...
  • Adaptive Strategies for the Future of Legal Education 
    Friedland, Steven I. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    In the parable about a scorpion and a frog, a scorpion wishes to cross a large river and asks the frog to carry it across. The frog refuses, observing that the scorpion would sting the frog and kill it. In response, the ...
  • All in the Family: Assessing the Definition of "Family" in City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge v. Myers 
    Murphree, Patrick D. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Like many cities, Baton Rouge, Louisiana has a zoning ordinance that limits the occupancy of dwellings in single-family residential districts to a small number of persons unless those persons are related by blood, marriage, ...
  • Planned Parenthood v. Abbott: Evaluating the Admitting Privileges Requirements Under the Undue Burden Standard 
    Phelps, Hope A. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    In Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit addressed whether a Texas statute imposed an undue burden on women's right to abortion by ...
  • Professional Identity Formation: Working Backwards to Move the Profession Forward 
    Brown, Christine Cerniglia (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    This Article seeks to identify core values necessary for future professionals and the need to ensure that legal education incorporates such learning objectives in order to foster this development. The traditional curriculum ...
  • The Need for Legislative Authorization of Noncompete Servitudes in Commercial Leases 
    McBride, Annie G. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. is a Florida-based supermarket chain that operates over 500 grocery stores across the southeastern United States. In the Greater New Orleans area alone, Winn-Dixie operates nearly twenty stores. ...
  • Schuette v. BAMN: The Short-Lived Return of the Ghost of Federalism Past 
    Kimball, Thomas D. (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2015)
    "[M]isunderstandingsand neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."In November of 2006, the residents of Michigan went to ...

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