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The Louisiana political and legal structure has maintained several elements from the time of French governance. One is the use of the term parish in place of county for administrative subdivision. Another is the legal system of civil law based on French, German and Spanish legal codes and ultimately Roman law—as opposed to English common law.
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Notable rulings from the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2008:
- The court unanimously overturned the use in New Orleans of private attorneys to collect overdue property taxes.[1]
- They gave a legal victory to thousands who sued the city of New Orleans, its public housing authority and its school board for putting their homes and school on a toxic waste dump without warning them.[2]
- They kept alive a lawsuit by two heirs who say that when Tulane re-organized after Hurricane Katrina, it merged male and female undergraduate colleges in a way that violated the intent of a major long-ago donor.[3]
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Portions of this article were taken from Sunshine Review under the GNU license.
