HowAppealing

DECEMBER 23, 2020

“Florida business in bankruptcy can’t get PPP loan, appeal court rules”: Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2023

The NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory Sunday for the state of Florida over a series of laws recently signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that the organization says “[attempt] to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.”

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida law barring real estate purchases by Chinese citizens can’t be enforced against two plaintiffs while their…

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Alabama State Senator Tim Melson filed a bill Tuesday in an effort to protect the state’s in-vitro fertilization (IVF) industry following the recent state Supreme Court ruling. ” On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Ruling 7 to 4, a Florida federal appeals court Friday reversed a lower court’s decision that a school board’s policy which prevents transgender students from using the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they identify with is unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 30, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, alleging that a New York official violated the group’s First Amendment rights when she urged banks and insurance companies not to do business with it in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a Florida high school.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. ” Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticized the ruling, saying , “This decision is outrageous. SCOTUS [the Supreme Court] gives the Biden Admin.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Florida court says 16-year-old in state care is too immature to choose abortion”: Carol Marbin Miller of The Miami Herald has this report. Brittany Shammas and Kim Bellware of The Washington Post report that “ Florida court rules 16-year-old is not ‘sufficiently mature’ for abortion.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the execution of Donald David Dillbeck to move forward in Florida, denying his request for a stay in a brief, unsigned order. He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday. There were no recorded dissents. In recent weeks, Gov.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2021

An app that connected traffic-ticket defendants with lawyers was engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 4-3…

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

” Nevertheless, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida refused to apply the Act. The post Federal appeals court rules in favor of defrauded cryptocurrency investors appeared first on JURIST - News. In the words of the 11th circuit, it was “a classic pyramid scheme.”

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HowAppealing

JULY 29, 2021

“11th Circuit strikes down Florida megachurch challenge to hate group label; An evangelical Christian ministry listed as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center was not discriminated against when its application to fundraise through Amazon’s charitable website was denied, the court ruled”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse (..)

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HowAppealing

APRIL 1, 2024

“Florida’s Supreme Court clears the way for abortion ballot measure that could protect the procedure”: Savannah Kuchar of USA Today has this report. James Call of The Tallahassee Democrat reports that “ Florida Supreme Court signs off on abortion rights amendment for November ballot.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Gore , the case that halted the recount in Florida in the 2000 presidential election.

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

Earlier this week, an appeals court ruled that a class-action lawsuit against the University of South Florida may proceed.

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JURIST

JUNE 6, 2022

The parents of Gianinna Gallardo initiated this lawsuit to seek “a declaration that Florida was violating the Medicaid Act by trying to recover from portions of the settlement compensating for future medical expenses.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the ruling, with Justice Stephen Breyer joining.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2022, after US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart unsealed the search warrant and other documents in the Florida case against former president Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents at his home Mar-a-Lago, Reinhart faced a barrage of violent and anti-semitic threats. Engoron alleged in 2024 that the threats have continued.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. David Sosa is a jet-engine engineer in Martin County, Florida. A federal district court in Florida dismissed his lawsuit.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Florida judge can seek punitive damages against a lawyer she accused of threatening to release her nude photos unless she acquiesced to his demands…

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Mondaq

JULY 21, 2021

On July 7, 2021, Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that an insured may electronically record an insurer's appraiser during an inspection of the insured's property.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2024

Sotomayor also compared the Idaho law with real-life scenarios, including a situation in Florida where a woman was denied medical care when she was experiencing pregnancy complications because the doctors could not conclude that she would die from the complication. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 3, 2019

This year was the 69th anniversary of The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention which was held in Boca Raton, Florida at the beautiful Boca Raton Resort and Club. Attendees had a cornucopia of special events and sessions to choose from, including 83 credits worth of CLE programming and a luncheon featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration can temporarily continue to communicate with social media companies about moderation policies, lifting a lower court ruling blocking communication between social media companies and a limited number of Executive Branch officials.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Susan Keenan Nayda, Vice President of Operations at Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation, testified during a deposition her thoughts on the Florida Civil Commitment Center in Arcadia, Fla.: Shadow prisons posing as treatment are not limited to Texas. There’s a little bit of confusion…What is this place? Is it a prison?

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2024

California , the Supreme Court ruled that it’s unconstitutional for a state to punish someone for being a drug addict (a status) rather than for committing a specific act such as selling drugs (conduct). In 2020, the district court ruled that the city’s homelessness-related ordinances were unconstitutional.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the prosecution from retrying a criminal defendant if it is determined that the original trial venue was improper. Federal prosecutors originally indicted Timothy Smith for hacking a Florida company. In Smith v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here’s the Friday morning read: Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events (Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica) Sports betting fight heading to Supreme Court (Dara Kam, News Service of Florida) Coerced, censored, shut down: How will Supreme Court manage social media’s toxic sludge?

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Legal pundits often debate the merits of arbitration versus litigation in State Court. Depending on the area of law, arbitration typically is the favored forum of resolution.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

likely didn’t turn on Supreme Court case (Jordan Rubin, MSNBC) How White People Stole Affirmative Action — and Ensured Its Demise (Evan Mandery, Politico) The post The morning read for Friday, June 16 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JURIST

APRIL 8, 2024

Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in 2022, which overturned the reproductive rights established by Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the US. Since then, reproductive rights have become increasingly fragmented. “This 50-year battle over Roe v.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2023

The plaintiffs are a group of Republican-led states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming. the court concluded that the states did not have standing to challenge the order because their injuries flow from “potential future regulations.”

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Law 360

APRIL 20, 2023

A Florida state appeals court has affirmed a lower court's ruling awarding Greenberg Traurig LLP $1.26 million in attorney fees after the former director of the firm's client, Hawk Systems Inc., declined to accept a proposed $500,000 settlement before the firm won a decision defeating the lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Alabama county bail system (John Kruzel, Reuters) Supreme Court won’t review North Carolina’s decision to nix license plates with Confederate flag (Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press) Where Texas redistricting lawsuits stand after U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

In 2021 a federal district court ruled that the government was partially responsible for the deaths due to negligence. The settlement issued Wednesday will resolve all appeals from this ruling. Last week, state legislation has increased firearm access in Florida and Minnesota.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There is an interesting constitutional fight brewing in Florida. Marvin Peavy is part of that movement and hanged a banner with the chant (with a pro Trump banner) from his home in Seagrove Beach, Florida. That is a key distinction given prior Supreme Court rulings like Reed v Town of Gilbert. Roof signs; 12.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 23, 2024

* Supreme Court rules 5-4 that Texas can't implement its own immigration policy. Washington Post ] * Florida backtracks from plan to use taxpayer funds for Trump legal defense fund after Ron DeSantis suggests he'd veto it.

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