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9 La. Jud. Newsl. 1 (1984)

handle is hein.journals/lajnews9 and id is 1 raw text is: '010~ni o- t J7.I~C u tc~ LvU£dt~ In God We Trust Spring 1984 FRENCH SUPREME COURT WILL VISIT NEW ORLEANS Tne Chief Justice of the French Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice in the French Cabinet will visit New Orleans November 1-4, as part of a Franco-Louisiana Judicial Seminar coordinated by the Orleans Criminal District Court. Seminar subjects will include Historical Prospection of Franco-Louisiana Law, Current Treaty Between United States and France and Comparative Legal Reasoning. The French delegation will include: Mme. Rozez, Premier President de la Cour de Cassation; M. Badinter, Ministre de Ia Justice; and, M. Danet, Batonnier de Paris. Among the U.S. speakers will be Chief Justice John A. Dixon, Jr.; and Judge Al Tate, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Official hosts of the Seminar and events include: the City of New Orleans; the State of Louisiana; the United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit; the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; the Supreme Court of Louisiana, the Louisiana Courts of Appeal; Orleans Civil District Court, Orleans Criminal District Court; the Louisiana State Museum; Louisiana State University School of Law; Tulane University; and Loyola University of the South. Other events will include an address by Ernest N. Morial, Mayor, City of New Orleans; a special private showing of the Sun King Exhibit; a banquet hosted by Edwin W. Edwards, Governor, State of Louisiana; a Franco-Louisiana Judicial Day at the World's Fair; ard, a gala Renaissance Ball. Further information may be obtained from: The Renaissance Committee, 2700 Tulane Avenue Suite 200, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119, (504) 827-9211. CRITERIA FOR APPELLATE JUDGESHIP REQUESTS STUDIED Judge James C. G otta, Fourth Circuit of Appeal, will chair a new 11 member committee appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to develop and implement a system of evaluating requests for new appellate judgeships. The new committee will follow in the footsteps of the highly successful district court committee which has for the last five years evaluated requests for new district court judgeships. The criteria formulated and the process developea by this committee chaired by Judge Thomas W. Tanner, 22nd Judicial District Court. and staffed by Dr. Hugh M. Collins, Deputy Judicial Administrator, has become the basis for a set of guidelines, Assessing the Need for Judicial Resources, distributed nationwide by the National Center for State Courts. Both committees are subcommittees of the Judicial Coun- Cont'd on Page 7 JUDGES EARN MASTERS IN JUDICIAL PROCESS Associate Justice James L. Dennis and 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal Judge P. J. Laborde, Jr. have recently completed all of the requirements for the prestigious Master of Laws in Judicial Process and were awarded degrees by the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Justice Dennis and Judge Laborde were two of only thirty state and federal judges nationwide to be admitted to the 1982-83 class and two of 26 of that class to earn a master's degree. Participants were required to complete two summer courses of study equivalent to two regular academic semesters and to submit a thesis within the academic year following the second summer session, Each participating judge attended four hours of class daily and did another three to four hours of preparation each night for the next day's class. Folowing a second summer session Justice Dennis and Jude Laborde each submitted a thesis. Judge Laborde chose as his topic Death with Dignity: A Proposed Natural Death Act for Louisiana', a subject of considerable national attention in recent years. Cont'd on Page 3 COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO STUDY CAMERAS IN APPELLATE COURTS Chief Justice John A. Dixon, Jr. has appointed a 16 member committee to consider admitting cameras into the Ap- pellate Courts of Louisiana. The committee, chaired by First Circuit Court of A 1pea Judge Melvin A. Shortess, is compos- ed of representatiyes from the Louisiana Supreme Court, the five Circuit Courts of Appeal, the print media, television, and radio. According to the National Center for State Courts, 38 states currently allow cameras into some or all of their courts. The American Bar Association Code of Judicial Conduct was recently rivised to permit caieras in the courtroom. The Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct forbids cameras in all courts in the state except for ceremonial occasions or specifical y designated educational purposes. Cameras have been allowed to record the proceedings of the Louisiana Supreme Court on 3 occasions and from February 1978 to May 1980 a special cameras in courtroom pilot project in the court of Judge Guy Humphries (now retired) of the 9th Judicial District, Rapides Parish, was allow- Cont'd on Page 6 Judicial Council Action . . Page 2 Attorney General Opinions . .... Page 2 Judicial College . .. . . Page 3 New Judges . .. ...... Page 5 Vol. 9 No. 1

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