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1st black La. Supreme Court justice dies at 84
Lawyer News | 2008/06/23 07:29
Revius Ortique Jr., the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84.pCurrent Supreme Court Justice Kitty Kimball says Ortique died Sunday./ppOrtique was elected to the court in 1992, but had to step down two years later when he reached the state's mandatory retirement age for judges at 70./ppAs a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s and '60s, he helped integrate state labor unions and sued to get equal pay for black workers./ppHe held several presidential appointments, including a stint as an alternate delegate to the United Nations under President Clinton./p


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