Chief: By seniority: the justice with the longest continuous service on the court ('oldest in point of service') serves as Chief Justice (La. Const. art. V, sec. 6)..
Adopted 1974. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Louisiana constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).
