https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Wades-World-102618.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans When I first read an email about Washington University’s law Professor Gerrit De Geest’s book, Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality, I thought, right on! Soaring rents for tenants are absolutely driving inequality in city after city. Actually, looking at the book was different, but …
Vote “Yes” for Unanimous Juries in Louisiana
New Orleans Louisiana is one of only two states in the US that allow split-verdict decisions by juries. The other is Oregon. What this means, simply put, is that being “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” does not exist for a conviction in these two states. In every other state the entire jury has to …
Lake Charles’ NIC at Forty and the Art of the Bank Fair
New Orleans Lake Charles is a middle-sized Louisiana city better known for oil refineries, chemical plants, and the fact that the city is home to the closest casinos to the Texas border. Depending on the traffic through Baton Rouge crossing the Mississippi River and the amount of construction on the great east-west highway, Interstate …