Rene A. Viosca (November 14, 1890 – September 16, 1973) was a justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Louisiana (; ) is the supreme court, highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court, composed of seven justices, meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
The Supreme ...
from 1959 to 1960.
As a state court judge, in 1957, Viosca ruled in favor of boxer
Ralph Dupas in a suit to establish Dupas' race, with Dupas contending that he was white, and therefore permitted to box white opponents in then-segregated Louisiana.
Viosca ran for the Louisiana Supreme Court unsuccessfully, but was temporarily appointed to the court following the sudden death of Justice
Amos Lee Ponder.
["Justice Amos Ponder Succumbs To Illness", ''The Crowley Post-Signal'' (October 19, 1959), p. 1.]
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Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court
1890 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Louisiana state court judges
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