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 ...

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 ...

This Article is the second in a series of primers on Louisiana Family Law. The Louisiana Civil Code of 1870, as amended to date, operates as the primary source of law, with other ancillary statutes and codes on particular ...

Louisiana derived its early laws on custody from the patriarchal traditions of Europe. In early Roman law, the father had absolute control over his children and their property. English feudal law also vested control of ...

Louisiana recognizes marriage as a legal relationship created by civil contract. Because marriage is created by civil contract, parties may rely on general contract principles in resolving questions unanswered by the ...

If you receive a paycheck, you are likely paying into the Social-Security program with the hope that you will receive monthly payments after you retire. For nearly fourteen million Americans with a mental or physical ...

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 ...

This Comment intends to highlight the problems of this growing leviathan and provide solutions to combat this usurpation of power by the regulatory agencies. This Comment will proceed in the following order: first, it ...