The Florida Supreme Court has issued an opinion clarifying how senior judges can mediate in the state's court system. The new rules probably won't change practice significantly, but their long-term effects will contribute to elevating mediations role in the legal system. The opinion, In re ...
The Supreme Court of Florida is the state's highest court, consisting of a Chief Judge and six Associate Judges appointed by the Governor from a list of nominees from the Judicial Nominating Commission. Newly appointed judges serve for at least one year, after which they appear in a yes-no...
Florida voters will decide this year whether two newly appointed justices on Florida's Supreme Court will keep their seats. Renatha Francis and Meredith Sasso are both on the ballot in a retention election, which asks voters whether the judges should remain in office for another term. Newly appo...
the trial judge concluded that defendant was mentally competent and able to understand the nature, quality and wrongfulness at the time of the crimes and had average intelligence. The trial court found no mitigating factor in defendant's age; he was a man of mature physical and mental...
"Each chief judge shall review cases and court events and the communications technology resources available to the circuit, each county, and each judge," the order said. "The chief judge shall issue directives to the judges of the respective circuit and county courts to reschedule, postpone, or...
To support her holding, Judge Mizelle—a former Justice Thomas law clerk—drew heavily on Supreme Court precedent finding Federal Election Commission members to be “officers” due to their litigation powers and analogized to administrative law judges and CFPB and FHFA directors. Meanwhile...
United States Supreme Courtcriminal lawcriminal procedurejuvenile life without parolejudgeschildren’s rightsThis short essay examines Graham v. Florida, the United States Supreme Court decision holding that the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause does not permit a juvenile offender to...
it was away beneath the dignity of a court of justice and descended to the very mudsills of indecorum. It is common knowledge that judges and their decisions are subject to honest, intelligent, or constructive criticism, even an allowable bit of destructive and uninformed criticism may at times...
In his dissent, Labarga argued that the 2011 law violated the separation of powers because it would empower judges to determine whether violations by local elected officials were "knowing and willful." "(The) requirement of judicial involvement in determining whether the action of the public officia...
FOR YOUR RADAR —A panel of state appeals court judges expressed deep skepticism Tuesday about an ongoing effort by the Republican-controlled Legislature to overturn an 11-year-old Florida Supreme Court decision that allows legislators to be questioned in certain civil cases. ...