by Dan Bushell | Apr 28, 2011 | General Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court
Sometime around 2004, I heard that consumer class actions were dead. Why? Companies were inserting into consumer contracts mandatory arbitration clauses that waived the right to proceed as a class action. Courts were upholding them – arbitration clauses are,...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 21, 2011 | Florida Supreme Court
Here’s a quick update to my earlier posts on Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon’s proposal to split the Florida Supreme Court into a two-headed monster. The Florida House voted to send the proposed Constitutional Amendment to voters last Friday,...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 18, 2011 | Constitutional Litigation, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Orlando City officials received good tidings on April 12, 2011, as 11th Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled in the City’s favor in First Vagabonds Church of God v. City of Orlando, No. 08-16788. The Court unanimously upheld an Orlando ordinance enacted to keep...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 15, 2011 | Florida Supreme Court
It turns out the Florida Senate may not be as cool as observers thought to House Speaker Dean Cannon’s proposed ballot amendment to restructure the Florida Supreme Court. This week Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff sponsored a Senate companion to one aspect of the...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 11, 2011 | Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court
Is the Florida Supreme Court about to become a two-headed monster? Not yet, but that possibility became more realistic this morning. John Kennedy of the Post on Politics blog of the Palm Beach Post reports that the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House...
