Legal Opinion · Dissent

Cobb v. Louisiana Board of Institutions

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 12, 1955No. 42158Published

1DissentMoise, Justice

(dissenting).. The inventions of science have changed the map of the world; the theories and aspirations of the present demand more specifically an end to idolatry worship, because so often there is a perpetuation of. old mistakes stagnating progress; the citizen is presumed to be a sovereign in fact with the entire governmental trinity his agents, and the Court is his intermediary in preventing the other departments from lessening his right of sovereignty.

The so-called sovereignty of the man has now become a catchword of politics, *15because of the fact that governmental admistrators have…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Shell Oil Co. v. Register of State Land OfficeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
  2. State ex rel. Hart v. BurkeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1881
  3. City of Santa Cruz v. WykesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
  4. Wykes v. City Water Co. of Santa CruzU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California · 1911

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