By Dwight Slater and Jacek Stramski On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, nearly 200 of Florida’s death-row inmates (“Petitioners”) filed an emergency petition asking the Court to declare certain provisions of the Timely Justice Act of 2013, Ch. 2013-216, Laws of Continue Reading …
By Dwight Slater In a thirty-four page opinion released today, the Florida Supreme Court rejected every argument advanced by the Legislature in its effort to stop a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters, et al., challenging its 2012 Continue Reading …
Recently the Florida Supreme Court clarified that an order denying a government entity’s claim of sovereign immunity in tort suits generally cannot be reviewed by a petition for a writ of certiorari. The opinion, issued in Rodriguez v. Miami-Dade County Continue Reading …
