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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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Before Hurricane Ian, about 2,500 inmates were evacuated from more than 20 facilities in Florida to safer locations. Still, some stuck around, losing power and access to other necessities, reports N’dea Yancey-Bragg in USA Today.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 7, 2021

My husband’s company is transferring him to another state and I’m worried it might be an issue finding a job in litigation because of the rules being different in Florida than they are in California. Doing some preliminary searching I saw some ads for litigation paralegals and they wanted someone with experience in Florida.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that 15 survivors of a 2018 mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, can’t…

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, a judge blocked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis from banning masks in public schools. Recently, a trend has emerged wherein states are attempting to ban public schools from requiring masks on school property. That judge found that the mask mandate even satisfied strict scrutiny.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

The 2022 ruling Dobbs v. In Dobbs , the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion was not a constitutional right but a state-level issue, laying the foundation for states to ban abortion entirely or at specific gestational milestones. At present, the state authorizes abortions up to 15 weeks of gestation.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 31, 2022

Courts disagree over whether a foreign bankruptcy case can be recognized under chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code if the foreign debtor does not reside or have assets or.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that civil immigration detainees employed in private facilities must be treated as legal employees and are thus entitled to the minimum wage stipulated by the state. The case, Ugochukwu Goodluck Nwauzor, et al v. The GEO Group, Inc.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The recent Florida appellate court ruling in Share v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

Last week, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled against MLB and the Cubs in seeking to enforce the boilerplate language on arbitration printed on the back of baseball tickets. We have previously discussed such cases and rulings on the standard MLB defenses.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The question came to the court in a case filed against Virginia Tech by Speech First, a group that describes its mission as putting “colleges and universities on notice that shutting down unwanted speech will no longer be tolerated.” A federal district court ruled that the group lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

“Republican leaders in South Dakota, Florida push abortion restrictions ahead of Supreme Court ruling”: Paulina Villegas of The Washington Post has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 922(g)(5)(A), the prosecution must prove not only that a defendant knew he had a gun, but also that the defendant knew of his legal status as a prohibited person. In Rehaif v. In his petition in Huff v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2022

Sandford the court ruled that Black Americans born in the U.S. The 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, was a repudiation of that ruling and constitutionalized earlier common law understanding of birthright citizenship. They add that all people within the North American colonies were naturally born British citizens.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A state trial court ruled that, for purposes of the ministerial exception, DeWeese-Boyd was not a minister, because she did not have any religious duties, did not “actively promote the tenets of evangelical Christianity,” and did not call or otherwise hold herself out as a minister.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

.” In George Zimmerman’s trial for the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin, the question surfaced of whether Zimmerman, a member of a Neighborhood Watch group who was patrolling a Florida gated community, acted as an initial aggressor when he intercepted Martin.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

To determine if a financial instrument qualifies as an investment contract and thus a security, both regulators and those in the crypto industry look to the precedent established in the1946 landmark Supreme Court case SEC v. Howey owned large tracts of Florida citrus groves. Howey Co. .

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. The assistant district attorney, the court of appeals ruled, “vouched for the credibility of the State’s witnesses and improperly commented on” Anthony’s guilt, “while using the prestige and dignity of his office to bolster the State’s case.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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