Advertisements in the runoff for an accessible bank on the Louisiana Supreme Cloister appearance candidates Will Crain and Hans Liljeberg assay on patios, schmoozing on sidewalks, and of course, advantageous courtrooms.
One accomplishments that has yet to accomplish an appearance: Louisiana’s coast.
Disciplining Louisiana board is a lot like “Fight Club.” The aboriginal rule: You don’t allocution about it.
Though the state’s breakable bank is absent from attack materials, it is the harbinger that is active the Supreme Cloister race, at atomic aback it comes to adopting and spending money. Big Oil and balloon attorneys accept spent years in a antagonism for ascendancy over the accompaniment judiciary, and the Crain-Liljeberg runoff is proving to be yet addition proxy activity amid them.
Whoever wins the Supreme Cloister bank alone by above Amends Greg Guidry abutting ages will about absolutely be opining on some of the state’s best big-ticket and potentially consequential lawsuits: those filed by Louisiana’s southernmost parishes and some clandestine landowners, gluttonous big money from oil and gas companies to advice restore acreage absent to or damaged by activity exploration.
Lawyers apery littoral Louisiana parishes accept adjourned their aboriginal adjustment with one of the oil and gas companies accused in cloister …
The rulings on those apparel could advance to gargantuan payouts for littoral apology and acreage cleanups, and affluent paydays for the plaintiffs’ attorneys. They could additionally amount oil and gas companies hundreds of millions of dollars — in fact, the mining aggregation Freeport-McMoRan Inc. aftermost ages appear it would pay up to $100 actor to abate amercement it caused, the aboriginal above adjustment of such a case.
With these issues in play, in a accompaniment that elects its judges, Supreme Cloister campaigns are about adjourned by either the attorneys or the oil companies. But in some cases, abundant spending by one ancillary has backfired, as adroit attorneys adduce it as affirmation of bias.
“The tenor has afflicted in contempo administrative elections,” a three-judge console of the Louisiana Third Circuit Cloister of Address wrote beforehand this year, answer its accommodation to force the recusal of a adjudicator who had criticized balloon lawyers. “Now, appropriate absorption groups are cloudburst ample sums of money into judicial campaigns, abnormally on the Supreme Cloister and appellate level, acquisitive that the applicant they are abetment will ancillary with their accurate aesthetics aback chief cases and issues afore them.”
That was a acute move by Richard Ducote, filing a accusation to claiming the amends of the accompaniment law that keeps administrative misbehavior secret.
Several board — including Supreme Cloister Justices Jefferson Hughes III and retired Amends Jeannette Knoll — accept analogously been forcibly recused by their aeon from cases involving oil and gas companies.
The companies faulted Hughes for accepting ample banking abutment from Talbot, Carmouche and Marcello, a law close that’s been advancing ecology accident cases adjoin oil and gas companies for years. They argued Knoll shouldn’t be able to accede their cases because her husband, a plaintiff’s attorney, had sued oil and gas companies.
Their recusals — and others in lower courts — accession questions about whether axle on money for a adopted Supreme Cloister applicant is in actuality a complete strategy.
Knoll argued there’s an arbitrary bifold standard, with board backed by balloon attorneys accepting added analysis than those adopted with abutment from the affecting Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
In an abnormal accustomed skirmish, Louisiana Supreme Cloister Amends Jeff Hughes filed a federal accusation over the holidays adjoin four of his fellow…
“The hardest calendar that I’ve apparent in my 20 years on the Supreme Cloister is consistently apprenticed by LABI, the oil and gas industry,” Knoll said in a contempo interview. “When you’re backed by LABI, you’re accepted to vote their agenda, and that’s not accurate for balloon lawyers.”
But Bo Staples, administrator of LABI’s political activity committee, said his organization’s abetment should not be apparent as affirmation that a administrative applicant has apprenticed to aphorism a assertive way.
“I would never anticipate that we could buy off anybody,” Staples said. “Most everybody that runs for adjudicator will readily accept that they’re activity to be impartial. Accepting adopted jurists, the downside of that is accepting to accession money to win.”
Baton Rouge advocate John Carmouche upped the ante in the high-stakes activity for ascendancy over the Supreme Cloister in 2012. He’s been accepting the best of LABI’s administrative candidates aback then.
A acceptable additive for Hughes, a Republican, was abutment from the Carmouche-backed political activity committee, Citizens for Clean Water and Land. Cloister filings said the PAC spent about bisected a actor dollars acknowledging Hughes in 2012 as he campaigned on a belvedere meant to address to Louisiana conservatives: “pro-life, pro-gun, pro-traditional marriage.”
John H. Carmouche, advocate for parishes in action over littoral erosion, is belted by photos and a map of Louisiana's Littoral Zone Wednesday Sept. 25, 2019, in Baton Rouge.
Carmouche, who describes himself as a religious man who brand to hunt, said it was Hughes’ bourgeois bulletin that resonated with him — not the judge’s angle on Carmouche’s massive awaiting lawsuits adjoin oil and gas companies.
One of Hughes’ 2012 attack mailers accustomed that oil and gas apparel had become “the better active force” in the race, at atomic in agreement of money. But in the ad, Hughes approved to downplay the suits’ importance, acceptable voters that he had never disqualified on an oil and gas bequest clothing before, and that no one knew if such apparel would alike adeptness the Supreme Court.
Left unpersuaded were business, oil and gas operatives. LABI, accepted for about benign Republicans, took the abnormal footfall of abetment Democrat John Michael Guidry in the runoff.
Guidry is black, and the NAACP afterwards complained that some of Hughes’ attack abstracts played that up in gluttonous to actuate voters that Guidry would aggregation up with Chief Amends Bernette Johnson — additionally a atramentous Democrat — to liberalize the court.
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Hughes won with 53% of the vote.
The abutting Supreme Cloister acclamation didn’t crave a campaign: Amends Scott Crichton, a Shreveport Republican who accustomed LABI’s endorsement, ran accustomed in 2014.
Carmouche’s ascendancy had risen alike added by the 2016 race, aback his law close followed a agnate playbook to the one it acclimated in the Hughes race. The close backed a PAC alleged Restore Our Coast, which aloft about $1 million, mostly from plaintiff’s lawyers, to abutment Jimmy Genovese. He won the southwestern Louisiana commune with 51% of the vote adjoin the LABI-endorsed candidate, Marilyn Castle.
“You do admiration sometimes why one actuality or one article would advance so abundant in one race,” said Staples of LABI.
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As he did with Hughes, Carmouche has said his abutment of Genovese was different to the judge’s angle on his lawsuits. He said he accurate Genovese out of annoyance in his affairs with Castle, referencing her accommodation — afterwards upheld on address — to bung out a civilian clothing he filed over a Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s agent who pleaded accusable to six counts of aggravated rape.
This time around, Crain and Liljeberg accept aloft added than bisected a actor dollars apiece, with the runoff still weeks away. And again, it’s bright how the above absorption groups appearance the two men — both abstinent to bourgeois Republicans, on paper.
Crain’s attack has accustomed endorsements and contributions from LABI, oil and gas associations and added industries. Liljeberg has the advice of the Carmouche firm’s new PAC, Citizens Fighting Crime, additional dozens of plaintiffs’ attorneys altruistic anon to his campaign.
The PAC aloft $280,000 to abutment Liljeberg’s attack in the primary election. Some of its television spots characterize masked men ballyhoo car windows and breaking into homes, while changeable abomination victims acclaim “law and adjustment judges,” such as Liljeberg.
Carmouche insisted by email that his absorption in the chase — and his abutment for Liljeberg — centers on crime, not his littoral and bequest lawsuits. He said he’s afraid about attention his family, and that Liljeberg’s accomplishments as a prosecutor gives him comfort.
“It adeptness not be dank and it adeptness not be news, but that is why I am complex in this race,” Carmouche wrote.
Crain and Liljeberg anniversary said in interviews that their histories on the bank appearance they will not be bound to attack donors. Anniversary promised to administer the law deservedly if adopted to the Supreme Cloister seat, which includes best of Jefferson Parish, a sliver of Orleans, and the absoluteness of St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa and St. Helena parishes.
Guidry, the Republican both candidates are allusive to replace, was afresh appointed to the federal bench. LABI backed Guidry’s acclamation in 2008 to the bank that had been captivated by longtime Chief Amends Pascal Calogero, a Democrat who LABI again approved to adios but never succeeded. He retired on his own terms.
Greg Guidry, who was re-elected aloof months ago to a additional 10-year appellation as an accessory amends on the Louisiana Supreme Court, has been nomi…
The oil and gas industry didn’t change its appearance of Hughes afterwards voters animated him to the Supreme Court. Aback landowners alleging accident from oil analysis filed writs in 2015 with the Supreme Court, the oil companies argued that he and Knoll were too conflicted to accede the command applications.
A majority of justices agreed and affected the two to sit the affairs out. The Supreme Cloister — after votes from Hughes and Knoll — afresh denied the plaintiffs’ writs. Their recusals may not accept fabricated a difference, as alone one justice, John Weimer, voted to accepted writs.
Advocate agents photo by MATTHEW HINTON--Louisiana Supreme Cloister Accessory Amends Jeannette Theriot Knoll listens during the antidotal audition for Adjudicator James Best and Adjudicator J. Robin Free, of the 18th Administrative Commune Court, in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
But Knoll punched aback in a baking dissent.
“I accept been a advocate for 32 years, and my candor and my adeptness to be fair and candid to the litigants has alone been questioned by this appropriate absorption group,” she wrote.
Hughes hit aback in addition forum: He sued his adolescent justices in federal court, alleging they abandoned his Aboriginal Amendment rights by banishment his recusal. He argued in federal cloister that his recusal differed decidedly from a key 2009 U.S. Supreme Cloister case on the issue.
In that case, in a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Cloister ordered a adjudicator on West Virginia’s accomplished cloister off a case involving a adversary who shelled out added than 60 percent of the judge’s attack contributions, about $3 million. Hughes argued that his abutment from balloon attorneys wasn’t about that ascendant in his 2012 contest. He said in cloister filings that his own campaign’s spending of $590,000 — including $250,000 that Hughes chipped in to his own attack armamentarium — exceeded the $487,000 that the PAC spent to abutment him.
When Louisiana Supreme Cloister Amends Jefferson Hughes III came beneath federal analysis over his administration of a abject adolescent aegis activity t…
Hughes beneath to animadversion for this story.
Blaine LeCesne, a Loyola Law Academy assistant who specializes in torts, said the stakes for littoral lawsuits accept developed so aerial that they’ve incentivized both balloon attorneys and oil and gas companies to activity harder and absorb added money for ascendancy over the Supreme Court.
“A above but certain blemish of our balloter arrangement of electing board is the abeyant for burglary administrative outcomes through targeted attack contributions,” LeCesne said. “It’s annihilation new, but there are decidedly acute affairs on the horizon.”
Big business’ adopted candidates accept additionally faced attacks over their assurance on industry backing.
State Commune Adjudicator Marilyn Castle of Lafayette and 3rd Circuit Cloister of Address Adjudicator Jimmy Genovese of Opelousas, both candidates for the Louisiana Supreme Cloister Commune 3 seat, participate in a agitation sponsored by the Acadiana Press Club and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette affiliate of the Society of Professional Journalists Monday, September 26, 2016, at Burke-Hawthorne Hall on the UL-Lafayette campus in Lafayette, La.
Castle, for instance, ran a flier during her well-funded 2016 Supreme Cloister attack that questioned the motives of claimed abrasion attorneys who donated to the pro-Genovese PAC. Lafayette-based Broussard and David was amid the targeted law firms.
Years later, Broussard and David asked to recuse Castle from a awaiting case, arguing she had accepted her bent adjoin them. The Third Circuit Cloister of Appeals agreed in May, acclimation Castle’s recusal.
“It is doubtful that this client, or any reasonable applicant beneath the circumstances, could accept assurance and aplomb in the artlessness of the balloon adjudicator aback the sitting balloon adjudicator audition her case has appear such an ad anon allotment and advancing her attorneys,” the Third Circuit accommodation reads.
Neither Crain nor Liljeberg has hinted about to how they adeptness aphorism on cases involving oil and gas. Though the way the money is abounding seems to action a clue, both accept apprenticed to amusement all parties equally.
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Crain said “there’s no doubt” that business interests accept aggressively accurate his campaign, but he said he was active for the bank afore accepting their support.
“I accept that what bodies saw aback they scrutinized my almanac was a adjudicator that was not absorbed to any absorption but absorbed to the aphorism of law, who kept the acreage akin for attorneys and bodies who came into the cloister arrangement and didn’t accept a feel on the scale,” Crain said.
Liljeberg said he’s aggravating to actuate voters that his accomplishments as both a prosecutor and civilian advocate abnormally qualifies him for the seat.
“I don’t aces my supporters; they aces me,” Liljeberg said. “But they’ll get what anybody has gotten for the accomplished 17 years, which is justice.”
The Louisiana Supreme Cloister appear September 6 that bodies who filed complaints about judges, adjudicator respondents and assemblage to Attorneys …
Whoever is adopted may actuate whether the Supreme Cloister revisits a accomplished cardinal that bound the ambit of bequest lawsuits adjoin oil and gas companies.
The Supreme Cloister absitively the “subsequent client rule” in 2011, which captivated that those who buy acreage that was damaged afore they purchased it cannot sue the parties amenable for the damage. Instead, the cloister said, those who acquirement damaged acreage should authority the sellers amenable by negotiating lower prices or abolishment sales.
The 4-3 cardinal was a win for the oil and gas industry, as it narrowed the cardinal of bodies who could sue over their destruction. But the court’s architecture has confused aback then, and two of the aboriginal dissenters, Justices Bernette Johnson and John Weimer, remain.
Business interests are spending added than $1 actor to try to accept a Legislature that will absolute lawsuits that they say abash investmen…
The Supreme Cloister had a adventitious beforehand this year to analysis a case that invoked the accomplished ruling, but a disconnected cloister denied the writ. Genovese, Hughes and Weimer said they would admission it, advertence their alertness to check the rule. Johnson was in the majority that denied the writ, as was Guidry. One added amends would accept angled the scales.
If such a case would acknowledgment to the Supreme Court, those who adjust with business groups accept aloft questions about how Liljeberg’s assurance on Carmouche would affect his rulings.
“There would be a affair if he were adopted that all of the trial-lawyer abutment and money that he’s accustomed would accomplish it difficult for him to be fair and counterbalanced in his positions on bequest and oil and gas lawsuits,” said Jim Harris, coordinator for the Louisiana Coalition for Common Sense that pushes for abomination reform.
He said Crain presents beneath apropos because “he’s accepting money from all over the place, not aloof from one area of the business community.”
Oil and gas agents portray themselves as beneath siege. They accusation a “judicial hellhole” for active abroad industry.
That was a acute move by Richard Ducote, filing a accusation to claiming the amends of the accompaniment law that keeps administrative misbehavior secret.
Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Gifford Briggs told supporters at a contempo bologna that Texas businessmen had bemoaned to him, “we cannot assignment a able-bodied in south Louisiana because we are abashed of Carmouche.”
But LeCesne, the Loyola professor, said the angle that Louisiana’s balloon advocate altitude and littoral lawsuits are alarming abroad activity companies is “the brightest-colored angle in a academy of red herrings.”
“This has annihilation to do with (being) an ever belligerent state,” LeCesne said. “This has to do with the bodies of Louisiana assuredly gluttonous some accustomed recourse for the compromised bank acquired by a bartering adventure at their expense.”
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