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Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), was a landmark case argued by Thurgood Marshall before the US Supreme Court.On December 11, 1961, the court unanimously ruled that Louisiana could not convict peaceful sit-in protesters who refused to leave dining establishments under the state's "disturbing the peace" laws.
Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536 (1965), is a United States Supreme Court case based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It held that a state government cannot employ "breach of the peace" statutes against protesters engaging in peaceable demonstrations that may potentially incite violence.
There are major differences between English law and Scots law with respect to dealing with breach of the peace; unlike England and Wales where criminal penalties apply to the behaviour leading to or liable to cause a breach of the peace, it is a specific criminal offence in Scotland which is prosecuted daily in the sheriff courts and due to its common law definition it can be applied to a ...
In December 1961, Cox was arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and convicted of disturbing the peace. That conviction was appealed and upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court, but overturned by the Supreme Court in Cox v. Louisiana. The Supreme Court held that state government cannot employ "breach of the peace" statutes against protesters engaging ...
A new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the ...
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
A group of Louisiana families with children in public school are suing the state in federal court to block a new state law requiring every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments ...
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would have required public schools statewide to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms by Jan. 1. U.S. District Judge John W ...