Jim RosicaJuly 15, 2019
5min485
Gov. Ron DeSantis will make the two eventual picks.
Tag: 1st DCA
Jim RosicaJuly 15, 2019
Michael MolineNovember 15, 2018
4min392
A company that provides cybersecurity training at the Navy’s Joint Cyber Analysis Course in Pensacola will get a trial on its claims that four employees violated an agreement not to seek work with other subcontractors at the school. The 1st District Court of Appeal reached that conclusion this week, overturning Circuit Judge John Miller of Pensacola. Miller accepted […]
Michael MolineOctober 31, 2018
3min513
You can’t buy workers’ compensation insurance to cover an injury that has already happened, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. “Uninsured persons cannot experience a loss, then scramble to get insurance and fail to disclose their loss, and then have the cost of their loss borne by the new insurer,” Judge Timothy Osterhaus wrote for a […]
Michael MolineOctober 29, 2018
6min301
A state appeals court has overruled a Tallahassee trial judge who ordered Gov. Rick Scott to disclose details of his official and campaign schedules, ordering that judge to first review the material privately. State law clearly requires such “in camera” scrutiny of the disputed material, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal […]
Michael MolineAugust 8, 20183min247
A state appeals court has blocked Clay County judicial candidate Lucy Ann Hoover from appearing on the ballot because she filed her paperwork too late. “We recognize that the public policy of Florida generally favors letting the people decide the ultimate qualifications of candidates,” the 1st District Court of Appeal concluded Wednesday, in an opinion by Judge […]
Michael MolineJuly 26, 2018
5min260
A state appellate court, for the second time in four years, has upheld Gov. Rick Scott’s authority to fill a judicial seat left vacant when a judge resigned before qualifying opened to fill the slot via election. The 1st District Court of Appeal had ruled in the same way against the same appellant, Jacksonville attorney […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 2018
3min748
Monday brought good news for the city of Jacksonville, as the First District Court of Appeal rebuffed five plaintiffs challenging the city’s pension reform referendum of 2016. The city prevailed in circuit court last year over plaintiffs Joseph Andrews, Connie Benham, Dr. Juan P. Gray, Lynn Price and Reverend Levy Wilcox. They objected to the wording of the […]
Ryan RayOctober 30, 2015
3min223
Judge Joseph Lewis Jr. of the 1st District Court of Appeal dealt a blow to advocates of so-called “campus carry” Friday when he affirmed a lower court’s decision in favor of the University of Florida against the gun rights group Florida Carry. It took UF to court over the school’s policy prohibiting guns in campus-owned […]