文档介绍：Louisiana Law ReviewVolume 56|Number 1Fall 1995The Ongoing "Turf War" for Louisiana Tort Law:Interpreting Immunity and the Solidarity SkirmishFrank L. MaraistLouisiana State University Law CenterThomas C. Galligan Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at mons @ LSU Law Center. It has been acceptedfor inclusion in Louisiana Law Review by an authorized administrator of mons @ LSU Law Center. For more information, please contactsarah.******@ CitationFrank L. Maraist and Thomas C. Galligan Jr.,The Ongoing "Turf War" for Louisiana Tort Law: Interpreting Immunity and the SolidaritySkirmish, 56 La. L. Rev. (1995)Available at: Ongoing "Turf War" for Louisiana Tort Law:Interpreting Immunity and the Solidarity SkirmishFrank L. Maraist*Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.-To reach the Bosporus, Jason and the Argonauts had to sail between theSymplegades, two large rock faces which crashed together at regular obvious problem for Jason and other travelers was that when the two rockfaces crashed, anything caught in the middle was pulverized.' Symbolically, therock faces represent the opposites that people face in the "real" world:good/evil, day/night, man/woman-and in the legal world-plaintiff/ key for Jason and other travelers was to get beyond this pair of earthlyopposites-and reach the land of adventure or land of the gods , Louisiana's tort lawyer may feel like Jason must have felt lookingout from the bow of the Argo, seeing those gargantuan rocks crash tort law's Symplegades, however, have other names: the LouisianaLegislature and the Louisiana Supreme Court. Like the mythical rocks, thelegislature and the court may be seen as opposing forces, at least to tort two lawgivers have collided on so many tort issues that it frequently isdifficult to determine what the law is and how long it will stay that way.