Legal Opinion
Arce v. La. State
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided November 16, 2017No. CIVIL ACTION No. 16–14003PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LANCE M. AFRICK, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
When Nelson and Lazaro Arce decided to challenge the Louisiana criminal justice system's treatment of the deaf, the Court doubts that they anticipated having to navigate through two of the murkiest waters in American law: federalism and separation of powers. Yet this case raises weighty questions about the federal government's authority to provide private citizens with the power to haul a State into federal court without its consent, and about the powers of executive branch agencies to authoritatively interpret federal statutes-and thus requires…
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