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unusual facts about United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana


Philip H. Gilbert

Philip H. Gilbert’s great-granddaughter, Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, daughter of Risley "Pappy" Triche, is a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.


Eddie Price III

On June 17, 2010, Judge Martin Feldman sentenced Price in U.S. district court in New Orleans on charges of income tax evasion as well as corruption.

Jay C. Zainey

On October 10, 2001, Zainey was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana vacated by A. J. McNamara.

Joseph Rummel

Both acts were rendered unconstitutional by Judge J. Skelly Wright, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, in the case Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board on February 1956.

Theodore Howard McCaleb

On September 1, 1841, McCaleb was nominated by President John Tyler to a joint seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, both vacated by Philip K. Lawrence.


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