Civil Rights and Environmental Coalition Challenges Rule Curbing Law Clinics

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A COALITION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND environmental groups has joined a Tulane University professor in filing suit against the Louisiana state supreme court over a rule restricting law clinics. Rules of practice written by the state's high court govern law clinics in Louisiana, through which third-year law students gain hands-on experience by assisting low- and moderate-income residents with legal claims.

In recent years, law professor Robert Kuehn and his colleagues at the environmental law clinic run by Tulane University have rankled some state political and business moguls by representing local citizens in legal challenges to large chemical manufacturers. The clinic has contended …