Scholarship Revoked Because of 'Type' of Emancipation

My question involves education law in the State of: Louisiana

I was awarded a scholarship "pelican promise award" in 2009. In 2010 it was revoked, and being 18 I had no idea how to handle this. Now that I am older and would like to return to school I am trying to resolve this issue. I am told that I answered a question on my FAFSA incorrectly, and this is the reason the scholarship was awarded and then later revoked. I was emancipated through a notary; this scholarship is supposedly awarded to those only emancipated through a court's decision. I have many questions, but I guess my biggest one is

Is there any way to fight for my right to this scholarship? I don't understand how one piece of paper can disqualify me when I completely proved my independency.

The rules for FAFSA determining you are an independent student are different than just emancipation. These "voluntary" emancipation do not qualify you as an independent student any more than if you'd just moved out or your parents just stated they are unwilling to support you. It seems unfair, but the way federal aid works is your parent's count against you no matter how obstinately they refuse to pay for your education.

But they didn't jus obstinately refuse to pay for my education. They disowned me at 16. We did it through a notary because we weren't fighting about it. I had a job, I didn't mind. I was on my own at 16....
What do the rules for FAFSA determining my independency say about that? There is absolutely nothing I can do?

Again, the rules for independent student is well defined and distinct from emancipation.
FAFSA doesn't permit parents to disown the expected responsibility for contributing to the education.
I know it seems to unfair to you, perhaps I even agree with you, but them's the rules. Frankly the whole federal educational assistance system is corrupt and fraught with waste. But we don't have another system right now.

The rules are on studentaid.ed.gov.

Your "emancipation" is not the kind of emancipation they are looking for where you have official recognition by a court you already being independent. Your case is your parents voluntarily allowed you to live independently. Whether done so under an amicable or hostile situation, FAFSA will now consider parents who voluntarily give allow their children to live independently to be relieved of their apparent responsibility to contribute to the education.

I'm sorry, but your situation is no different than most other situations where parents refuse to contribute.

Ok so my emancipation doesn't count and I'm just like everyone else. Except everyone else didn't go to school thinking it would be free. So here is my next question

Is there anything I can do about them awarding me the scholarship in the first place? I only reason I even decided to attend LSU is because some lady kept calling me several times a day. She told me if I enrolled I would receive this scholarship and everything would be free and I would even get extra money to spend however I wanted, and I did. Honestly, who would not accept that offer? I was not even planning on attending college right out of high school, but this woman persuaded me. Now I'm in debt about 5,000 to LSU and they will not release my transcripts. Anything?

When you completed your FAFSA application, is it reasonable to infer that you answered "yes" to the question, "Are you or were you an emancipated minor as determined by a court in your state of legal residence?" If so, you brought this on yourself by providing a false answer. If not, how did the school get the idea that you had been emancipated by a court?

Well, to be honest with you I do not know what I answered. I had no help with this so I imagine not knowing the difference I most likely answered yes. However, my high school had on file a notarized copy of the emancipation which was included with all required documents sent to LSU for the application process. My point being, if they had the document and it was the wrong one why didn't they say so before I was two semesters in? That's a really long time to let me build up some debt.

All a notary's signature and seal does is verify that the signatories to a document are indeed who they say they are. A notary's sign and seal does not make an emancipation "legal" in the sense that it is recognized by the state government or the FAFSA people. It is not legal and binding just because it has been notarized. That's a mistake far too many people make. If the document is legal and binding, with a few limited exceptions that do not apply here it is legal and binding whether it's notarized or not; If it's not legal and binding, having it notarized does not make it so.

Signed, a former notary

While I can appreciate that fact, this is not my current concern.
My question now is, am I able to make a move based on the fact that LSU waited two semesters before making the realization, allowing me to incur debt.

You are free to hire a lawyer and try to fight it on that basis. You will NOT get the scholarship back - you don't qualify for it, and the fact that it took a while for someone to realize it doesn't somehow magically make you eligible. If you're willing to pay a lawyer enough, he might be able to keep you from having to pay back what you've already gotten in error.