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Fifth Circuit: basing judges’ fund on fines and fees violates due process

By Walter Olson – Overlawyered 09/04/2019

“…  Now a unanimous Fifth Circuit panel has ruled that given the fund’s substantial dependence on such revenue, the parish “failed to provide a neutral forum” and thus violated defendants’ constitutional right to due process. …”

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