Rene A. Viosca (November 14, 1890 – September 16, 1973) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1959 to 1960. As a state court judge, in 1957, Viosca ruled in favor of boxer

Ralph Dupas Ralph Dupas (October 14, 1935 – January 25, 2008) was an American boxer from New Orleans who won the world light middleweight championship. Early boxing career Dupas was the second of eleven children of a New Orleans fisherman, Peter Dupas. H ...

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 Amos Lee Ponder Jr. (March 26, 1887 – October 19, 1959) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from January 4, 1937, to October 19, 1959. Born at Fort Jesup in Louisiana, Ponder attended Mt. Lebanon College and Tulane University, and gra ...

."Justice Amos Ponder Succumbs To Illness", ''The Crowley Post-Signal'' (October 19, 1959), p. 1.

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