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  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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