Legal challenges are already in the works, so we asked Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino what he thinks will happen to the Ten Commandments law requiring them to be displayed in public school classrooms.
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After seven successful seasons in Lafayette, Gerry Glasco is leaving the Ragin Cajuns to be the new head coach at Texas Tech. has Sean Richardson has more.
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The new law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments is already facing a legal challenge. Loyola University Law professor Dane Ciolino says while it violates the First Amendment; the bill was written to display them for historical not religious purposes.
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In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar law in Kentucky was unconstitutional, but in 2022, Ciolino says the high court ruled in favor of a high school football coach in Washington who prayed with students on the field on the basis of history and tradition.
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Ciolino expects the law to be deemed unconstitutional and that Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murril will appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is more conservative than in the past.
The ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation say they plan to file a joint lawsuit against the measure.
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A $1 million gift from the family of Clifford Smith to Nicholls State University will create the William Clifford Smith School of Engineering set to start in August. Dean of the College of Science and Technology Dr. John Doucet.
Doucet says students will no longer have to leave the Bayou Region to pursue an engineering degree and after graduation, hopefully they get a job locally
Programs will include geomatics, energy engineering technology, and mechanical engineering which is also being offered in partnership with UNO.
Clifford Smith was an engineer, land surveyor and owner of the consulting firm T. Baker Smith.
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UL-Lafayette Softball head coach Gerry Glasco accepted an offer today to become the next head coach at Texas Tech. Host of the Locked-on Sun Belt Podcast Dave Schultz says he’s surprised Glasco is leaving.
Glasco finished his seventh season with a record of 302-88. With Glasco’s departure, it’s likely some players will test the transfer portal.
UL-Lafayette starts the search for a new head coach and Schultz says because of the success of the program…
While head coach, Glasco extended the Cajuns’ national-best Sun Belt series winning streak to 89 consecutive league series.
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The Louisiana Public Service Commission has ordered SWEPCO to issue 23-million dollars in refunds to its 240-thousand customers in 12 northwest Louisiana parishes. Commissioner Foster Campbell says SWEPCO customers deserve a credit, because of an accounting error
Campbell says the credit will amount to 21-dollars per month for the average SWEPCO residental customer and it should appear on July, August and September bills.
Campbell says the P-S-C will also conduct service quality investigation on SWEPCO, because of frequent outages from storms…