Christine Jordan SextonNovember 15, 2022
9min0
Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed four of the seven justices on the state Supreme Court.
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Christine Jordan SextonNovember 15, 2022
Staff ReportsOctober 3, 2019
5min410
Volusia, Miami-Dade and Broward counties are among the most affected by Amendment 10.
Jim RosicaAugust 7, 2018
4min384
The 1st District Court of Appeal on Monday agreed to “pass through” to the state’s Supreme Court a case on whether a proposed amendment to end greyhound racing should stay on the November ballot. A unanimous three-judge panel said the matter was “of great public importance,” needing “immediate resolution … due to time constraints related to the pending election and ballot preparation […]
Jim RosicaJune 8, 2018
5min1011
A Jacksonville man’s sentence on drug possession charges was struck down by an appellate court Friday because of the state’s “911 Good Samaritan Act.” A unanimous three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal reversed Thomas John Pope‘s 15-month sentence on possession of heroin and marijuana charges. Pope, 26, already was released from minimum custody this […]
Jim RosicaJuly 24, 2017
6min488
Horse breeders have legal standing to “challenge the annual plan for distribution of owners’ and breeders’ awards,” according to a unanimous appeals court decision Monday. In a case ultimately about who controls the money and how much goes back to horsemen and breeders, Southern Cross Farm (SCF) had appealed a ruling from state gambling regulators. The Department […]
Bob SparksNovember 23, 2016
7min511
Former Florida Democratic Party Chairman and statewide office candidate Scott Maddox is involved in another political fight this Thanksgiving season. Though elected to another term on the Tallahassee City Commission, he was blocked from taking the oath of office earlier this week. Maddox, who served as FDP Chairman from 2003-2006, is facing a legal challenge […]
Jim RosicaDecember 28, 2015
5min1001
An appellate court has reversed a contempt finding against a lawyer whom a judge had asked to take a breath analyzer test and then shamed in open court because others said she “smelled like alcohol.” One of the 1st District Court of Appeal judges even wrote a 10-page concurring opinion in which he compared the judge’s […]
Martin DyckmanSeptember 28, 2014
7min163
“If the law says that,” said Mr. Bumble, “the law is a ass, a idiot.” — Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Florida’s First District Court of Appeal sits in splendid isolation in a Tallahassee suburb, five and a half miles from the Capitol, housed in a magnificent edifice nicknamed the Taj Mahal for the $50 million […]
Martin DyckmanMay 27, 20147min232
Now you know — as if there was ever doubt — why the right wing is desperate to take over the Florida Supreme Court. Why there’s a constitutional amendment on the ballot to let Gov. Rick Scott pack the court if he is re-elected. The Supreme Court itself illustrated the reasons late Tuesday afternoon when […]