NCJ Number
189381
Date Published
2000
Length
41 pages
Annotation
This report provides information and statistical data on the activities of the Supreme Court of Louisiana for the year 2000, with comparative data for 1999 included.
Abstract
In the year 2000 the Louisiana Supreme Court approved strategic plans for the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, and the district courts. Included in the Supreme Court plan are initiatives that support families, increase outreach, and improve court effectiveness. The Court made progress on several fronts in achieving its longstanding goal of reducing the number of attorney disciplinary infractions. The Committee to Study Permanent Disbarment recommended that disbarment in the most egregious of lawyer discipline cases be permanent, and the State Bar Association House of Delegates endorsed the concept. The Court should act on the report in 2001. One of the Court's most potentially far-reaching reform initiatives in 2000 was the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Creation of a Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee. This initiative stemmed from the Court's observations of the increasingly combative and perhaps unethical nature of judicial campaigns. Reports are included for the Law Library of Louisiana, the Judicial College, the Office of the Clerk of Court, the Committee on Bar Admissions, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, and the Judiciary Commission. Statistics are reported for 1999 and 2000 for the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, district courts, family and juvenile courts, and city and parish courts. The names of judges and clerks for these courts are provided as well.