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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana recently hosted essay and poster contests to celebrate the Bill of Rights. High school students from across the Eastern District of Louisiana participated in the contests. U.S. District Judges, Barry Ashe and Wendy Vitter, U.S. Magistrate Judges, Janis van Meerveld, Dana Douglas, and Donna Currault, and Federal Bar Association members, Erin Arnold, Benjamin de Seingalt, Michael Dodson, Jessica Engler,...
more »On March 23, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana sponsored a Women’s History Month Celebration entitled, “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Her Lasting Legacy.” Dr. Sally Kenney, Executive Director of Newcomb Institute, Newcomb College Endowed Chair Professor, and leading expert on women in the judiciary, served as keynote speaker. Dr. Kenney spoke about Justice Ginsburg’s career as a gender equity advocate as well as...
more »Considering COVID has limited the court’s physical capacity to accommodate jury trials and because the court has a large backlog of cases set for jury trial, the court has adopted the following criteria for determining which trials will proceed first:
1. Criminal trials will be selected ahead of civil;
2. Then lower-numbered criminal cases involving detained defendants ahead of higher;
3. Then lower-numbered criminal...
The Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has issued COVID-19 General Order No. 21-3, extending ...
more »CVB violation dockets have been continued as indicated below:
Magistrate Judge North: Any tickets received that were set for hearing or were scheduled to be set for hearing on March 31, 2020, May 5, 2020, June 9, 2020, July 14, 2020, August 18, 2020, September 22, 2020, October 27, 2020, December 1, 2020, January 5, 2021, February 9, 2021, March 16, 2021 and April 20, 2021, have been reset for hearing on May 25, 2021, at 10:00 a.m....
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