A federal appeals court has put on hold a battle about a 2022 Florida law that restricts instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in schools, after attorneys said they were in settlement talks. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued a…
Read More Florida Parental Rights In Education Law Appeal Put On Hold
Nearly five years after voters passed a constitutional amendment about victims’ rights, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office Monday urged the Florida Supreme Court to use the measure to make it harder for Death Row inmates to get stays of execution. Moody’s office cited the amendment,…
Read More State Of Florida Urges Use Of ‘Marsy’s Law’ In Death Penalty Cases
Pointing to a “medical consensus” about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, attorneys for inmate Michael Duane Zack on Sunday urged the Florida Supreme Court to block his scheduled Oct. 3 execution in the 1996 murder of a woman in Escambia County. In a brief and an accompanying…
Read More Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Key In Florida Death Row Inmate Appeal
Seeking a final ruling before the legislative session starts in January, both sides in a battle over a congressional redistricting plan asked an appeals court Friday to fast-track the case to the Florida Supreme Court. The joint request by attorneys for the state and voting-rights…
Read More Quick Resolution Sought In Florida Redistricting Fight
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday kept in place a decision to delete part of a rule that allowed judges to take courses in “fairness and diversity” to meet continuing-education requirements. Justices in February approved the change but then accepted comments about the decision. In…
Read More Florida Supreme Court Keeps ‘Fairness And Diversity’ Change
Florida Supreme Court justices Thursday appeared skeptical of arguments aimed at overturning an appeals-court decision in a case involving catastrophic injuries suffered by an 18-year-old woman after two Tallahassee bars served underage drinkers. The guardian for Jacquelyn Faircloth went to the Supreme Court last year…
Read More Florida Supreme Court Justices Weigh Underage Drinking Accident Lawsuit
Suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell on Wednesday asked the Florida Supreme Court to overturn Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision last month to oust her, saying he had no legal basis for the move. “To the extent the governor disagrees with how Ms. Worrell is lawfully…
Read More Suspended Florida Prosecutor Monique Worrell Fights Gov. DeSantis At Supreme Court
A state appeal has put on hold a circuit judge’s ruling that a congressional redistricting plan violated the Florida Constitution, as the case could be on a fast track to the state Supreme Court. Secretary of State Cord Byrd and the Florida House and Senate…
Read More Florida Redistricting Appeal Could Go On Fast Track
Florida and other states are trying to fend off an attempt by the Biden administration to end a lawsuit challenging changes to the National Flood Insurance Program that have led to higher premiums for many property owners. Attorneys for 10 states and local government agencies…
Read More Florida Among States Trying To Fend Off Biden Admin From Ending Flood Insurance Fight
Warning of a “substantial detrimental impact on the children at the heart of this case,” the U.S. Department of Justice urged an appeals court to reject Florida’s attempt to halt an injunction requiring changes aimed at keeping children with complex medical conditions out of nursing…
Read More Feds Fire Back In Florida Nursing Home Kids Case