Background
DUVAL, STANWOOD was born on February 8, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
DUVAL, STANWOOD was born on February 8, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Louisiana State University and A. and M. College (Bachelor of Arts, 1964. Bachelor of Laws, 1966). Phi Alpha Delta. Assistant City Attorney, 1970-1972.
Delegate, Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1973.
Parish Attorney, Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, since 1988.
He was appointed by United States. President Bill Clinton in 1994, with his chambers in his native New Orleans. Judge Duval is best known for having issued an injunction in 2000 which barred the State of Louisiana from issuing "Choose Life" vanity automobile license plates, as the legislature had approved in 1999. Duval ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood of America, which took the view that the choice of displaying the plates violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution because there was no alternative display available for supporters of abortion.
Judge Duval"s opinion was unanimously reversed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on April 13, 2005.
A petition for rehearing en banc was filed by the plaintiffs, and it was denied by an eight to eight vote of a divided court. Duval was born to Stanwood Richardson Duval, Senior
(1913–2001), and the former Bonnie Parker Faught. He was reared in Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish, where his father operated a successful insurance business and was prominent in community affairs
He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, in 1964, and from the Louisiana State University law school in 1966.
He was in the private practice of law in Houma from 1966 to 1994, when he assumed his seat on the federal bench. Having been confirmed by the United States. Senate on September 28, 1994, Duval succeeded Judge George Arceneaux, Junior., who died in office in 1993. He was also the assistant city attorney of Houma from 1970 to 1972 and the attorney for the consolidated Terrebonne Parish government from 1988 to 1993.
The judge became an object of political consideration in the 2003 gubernatorial campaign, when Republican candidate, Bobby L. Jindal, lashed out at "liberal" judges.
According to WWL-television"s website: "A campaign mailing by supporters of. The literature, though it doesn"t specifically name him, labels United States. District Judge Stanwood Duval, II, as a "left-wing" jurist." Judge Duval issued rulings in 2005 and 2006 in reference to the constitutional rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina.
He extended the time that hurricane evacuees could continue receiving taxpayer-funded hotel stays. In addition to the above Katrina rulings, on November 19, 2009, Judge Duval issued a ruling stating that the Army Corps of Engineers was negligent in maintaining flood protection that resulted in significant flooding during Hurricane Katrina.
On March 3, 2012, the United States. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Duval"s ruling, agreeing that the Corps had failed to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.
In 2008, Judge Duval assumed senior status. He was succeeded in his position in 2011 by Nannette Jolivette Brown, an appointee of President Barack H. Obama.
Member City of Houma Charter Commission, 1975, vice chairman Charter Commission, 1980-1981, Terrebonne Port Commission, 1987-1988. Member American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, Terrebonne Parish Bar Association, Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (board governor 1976-1977), Whiskey Pass Silver King Association, Houma-Terrebonne Junior Chamber of Commerce.
M. Deborah Barnes, January 20, 1979.