Court Decisions Florida Litigation Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 9, 2024
This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether that 30-day deadline bars owners from reclaiming property if they file with a missing signature. Luis Sanchez is a part-owner of a small business in Florida selling electronics to Latin American customers.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2017
In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?
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Conflict of Laws
MAY 17, 2023
There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Gambling on tribal lands first came to prominence with a Seminole casino in Florida in the late 1970s. The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. Some background about the general compromise that governs that problem sets the stage for this dispute.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
For a time, that decision stopped the death penalty in its tracks and offered a stinging critique of its unfairness. The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. This time the court’s verdict was less equivocal, though no less divided.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Returning Relists.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 13, 2024
Coverage of federal fraud statutes Porat v. The district court held that the allegations were inadequate under the heightened pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act , which Congress adopted to curb perceived abuses of securities litigation. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed.
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