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10 La. Jud. Newsl. 1 (1987)

handle is hein.journals/lajnews10 and id is 1 raw text is: n oui r a i31 ubriciaf VOL. 10. NO. I IN GOV WE TRUST SPRING 1987 IT HAS bEEN a long time between Vol. 9 No. 2 and Vol. 10 No. 1, and we have a verty di66eent totmat, one dictated by budget te 6tUctionb. Fot the time being Louisiana Judicial Newdtettet will e6me publication in tWis quaei-buttetin 6orm. Accoidingty: coo TiE ANNUAL SPkIN(, JUVGtS CONFERtNCt: wa held in Lafayette with an attendance o6 221 judges. The Louisiana Cou-tt Administtatou held concuttent meetings. Agenda 6o- the con6etence included a c.olloquium o6 tecent developments in Louiiana ciminat taw and p-oceduie; pte6entation6 on in-hou6e atetat6; ptoposed tegibation to alteinative sentencing; and busines6 meetings o6 the 6evewal judicial oiganization. 000 THE A1NNUAL REPORT o6 the Supeme Coutt ha6 been distibuted. Statistis compiled Jot the document when compated to 10 yeau6 ago reveal a 35.4% inctea6e in Supteme Couat 6iting, a 206.6% inctea~e in Silings in the cou-t o6 appeal; an increa6e o6 38.5% (combined criminal and civil) in titing6 in the ditict couwt6; and a 13.5% increa6e in filings in the city and patish couft6. The covel to the Annual Repott i4 the logo o6 the Cente6eptequina-y Commision which celebtateu 175 yeavu o6 Louiiana'6 statehood in 1987. 000 114 CELEBRATION OF THE BICENTENNIAL o6 the United State6 Constitution, the Sup-eme Coutt o6 Loui6iana met in tegulai Session at Guinn Auditoiun, on the campu6 o6 Louisiana College in Pineville in May and, befote that, in Aptit, at ben F-tanktin Public High School in New Orean6. Stilt and television cameta6 we-te alowet to 'teco'id the poceeaing6. In both inutanceu, the Supteme Cout head two actual caeS pending be6ote it: a civit cabe and a death penalty case. 00 ARTICLE OF INTERES7 - CALCASIEU COURT WAKES UP Thi6 article wa6 ptepated by Skippet ia~ting6, Cou'It Admini6t'tatot o6 the Fourteenth Judicial tiDttict Court, Calcahieu Pacush, and i4 an account o6 the wok o6 Judge L. E. Hawbey and hi6 6ta66 in applying modern technology to the need6 o6 hi coutt. (Editot'6 note: 16 you have infotmation which you want to shate, please 6end attice6 to Paulette H. Holahan, 301 Loyola Avenue, Room 109, New U'rlean6, Loui6iana 70112-1887.) In Match o6 1985 the 14th Judicial Viftict begain inve~tigating ways to app&; mode'rn data pioce&6ing and 'retrieval to the need6 o6 the coutt. At that time, it6 mo~t advanced wod poce6bot wa a tied 6ecteta-ty &itting at an IBM Setect-tic typewtitet and it6 be6t method o6 handling a database wa. the 6ame 6ecteta'ry shud6ing index catd6 in a Kaxdex dtawe'. Now, each o6 the eight judges ha6 a 30 megabyte hard disk computer 6o'r hi6 every day nut6 and bolt6 work o6 p-toducing document6 and cotrespondence. Fot printing they ube IBM Quiet Writeus, ot a Hewlett Packard &e ptinte-t when high pioduction and speed i4 needed. Oi E T.

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