Louisiana
Singleton v. Cannizzaro
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Singleton v. Cannizzaro
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The ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality, ACLU of Louisiana, and Civil Rights Corps, filed suit against District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, his office in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and several Assistant District Attorneys for systematically breaking the laws of Louisiana and of the U.S. Constitution.
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14 Louisiana Cases
Louisiana
Mar 2024
Callais v. Landry
Whether the congressional map Louisiana adopted to cure a Voting Rights Act violation in Robinson v. Ardoin is itself unlawful as a gerrymander.
Status: Ongoing
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Louisiana
Voting Rights
Callais v. Landry
Whether the congressional map Louisiana adopted to cure a Voting Rights Act violation in Robinson v. Ardoin is itself unlawful as a gerrymander.
Mar 2024
Status: Ongoing
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Louisiana
Feb 2024
Nairne v. Landry
Nairne v. Landry poses a challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Louisiana’s House and Senate legislative maps on behalf of plaintiff Black voters and Black voters across the state.
Status: Ongoing
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Louisiana
Voting Rights
Nairne v. Landry
Nairne v. Landry poses a challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Louisiana’s House and Senate legislative maps on behalf of plaintiff Black voters and Black voters across the state.
Feb 2024
Status: Ongoing
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Louisiana
Voting Rights
Robinson v. Ardoin
Dec 2023
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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Louisiana
Apr 2020
Livas v. Myers et al.
Decarceration has always been an emergency, a life and death proposition, but COVID-19 makes this effort intensely urgent. The ACLU has been working with our partners to litigate for the rights of those who are incarcerated and cannot protect themselves because of the policies of the institutions in which they are jailed.
Status: Ongoing
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Louisiana
Criminal Law Reform
Prisoners' Rights
Livas v. Myers et al.
Decarceration has always been an emergency, a life and death proposition, but COVID-19 makes this effort intensely urgent. The ACLU has been working with our partners to litigate for the rights of those who are incarcerated and cannot protect themselves because of the policies of the institutions in which they are jailed.
Apr 2020
Status: Ongoing
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2019
June Medical Services v. Russo
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit’s decision upholding Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital conflicts with the Supreme Court’s binding precedent in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, where the Court invalidated a similar statute in Texas in 2016.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Reproductive Freedom
June Medical Services v. Russo
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit’s decision upholding Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital conflicts with the Supreme Court’s binding precedent in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, where the Court invalidated a similar statute in Texas in 2016.
Dec 2019
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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