As you are driving down a busy street, you see the light change in front of you from green to yellow. Your car speeds up (on its own volition?) and you enter the intersection believing the light is still yellow. Continue Reading …
On the Court’s docket is a petition for an advisory opinion filed by the Florida Board of Bar Examiners (“FBBE”) that is sure to receive national attention. At issue is whether an undocumented immigrant may be denied membership with the Continue Reading …
The facts in T.M.H. v. D.M.T. (SC12-216), as the Fifth District Court of Appeals (“DCA”) stated in its opinion below, 79 So.3d 787 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011), are not in dispute. The parties were involved in a committed lesbian relationship Continue Reading …
In Brown, et al. v. Nagelhout, et al. (SC10-868), decided by the Florida Supreme Court in mid-March, the justices unanimously abrogated the more than half-century old doctrine of venue selection known as the joint residency rule, first promulgated by the Continue Reading …
The Supreme Court recently held in Kitroser, et al. v. Hurt, et al. (SC11-25) that the corporate shield doctrine does not preclude Florida courts from exercising personal jurisdiction over an individual who commits a tort in Florida while acting on Continue Reading …
