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

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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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in favor of investors Friday against BitConnect, an alternative cryptocurrency that the court called a Ponzi scheme. ” Nevertheless, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida refused to apply the Act.

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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. Senior U.S.

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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

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. But the court held that “the mere burden of a second trial has never justified an exemption from the retrial rule.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a 200-word description of a ballot initiative to enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution was valid and determined voters would see the initiative on the statewide general election ballot.

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JURIST

JUNE 6, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday held by a 7-2 vote in Gallardo v. The court’s ruling says that states can be reimbursed for these expenses if a settlement is made between the injured and liable parties. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the ruling, with Justice Stephen Breyer joining.

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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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HowAppealing

JULY 29, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. The 2022 ruling Dobbs v. The case, Planned Parenthood v.

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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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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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Law 360

AUGUST 27, 2024

A tire manufacturer cannot get insurance coverage for millions in unpaid invoices it is owed, a Florida federal court ruled, finding the manufacturer made a material misrepresentation in its insurance application concerning the creditworthiness of one of its largest customers.

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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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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Earlier this month, the ACLU of Iowa and several parents filed suit in federal court to challenge Iowa’s public school mask ban. Thus, the court enjoined the state from restricting public school discretion to mandate masks. Last week, a judge blocked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis from banning masks in public schools.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

EDT as the court releases opinions in one or more cases from the current term. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Share We’ll be live this morning at 9:30 a.m. We will be live each day at 9:30 a.m.

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Law 360

JUNE 28, 2024

Supreme Court's ruling on an Oregon town's anti-camping ordinance, government incentives for manufactured housing communities, and the progress states have made toward building safety in the three years since the tragic condo collapse in Surfside, Florida.

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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 13, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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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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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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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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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. It further held that while there are narrow exceptions to this rule, state public policy is not one of them. On February 21, 2024, the U.S.

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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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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. Now the Appellate court has agreed. Zuniga was hit in the face with a foul ball at Wrigley in 2018.

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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. This aspect of the ruling underscores the larger implications for private detention operators and their labor practices.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 9, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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. In Sanchez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Share Amid the debate over free speech on university campuses, the justices on Monday set aside a decision by a federal appeals court in a case involving whether so-called “bias-response team policies” – procedures created by universities to solicit, track, and investigate reports of bias – chill students’ speech. The order in Speech First v.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The recent Florida appellate court ruling in Share v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

One example is a recent US District Court ruling on a motion for summary judgment of a copyright lawsuit brought by a photographer when his photos of Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana appeared on a news website to illustrate articles on the musicians. However, relying on the creative commons license can be perilous.

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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. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. Justice Kavanaugh writes, quoting Linda R.S. :

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