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Fewer Federal Appeals Were Filed in 2017. Why?

by Dan Bushell | Jul 3, 2018 | Constitutional Litigation

According to a statistical report recently issued by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, federal appeals filings dropped substantially last year. In the 12-month period ending September 30, 2017, 50,506 appeals were filed in federal courts of...

Florida’s Ban on Credit Card Surcharges Declared Unconstitutional

by Dan Bushell | Dec 4, 2015 | Constitutional Litigation

You may have gone to pay for a purchase and been told by the store owner that there was an extra charge to pay by credit card. And you’ve undoubtedly gone to a gas station with two sets of prices: lower prices for cash and higher prices for credit cards. Is...

Florida Appeals Court Forfeiture Decision A Reflection of Changing Attitudes About Cannabis?

by Dan Bushell | Feb 25, 2015 | Constitutional Litigation, Criminal Law, Florida District Courts of Appeal

There’s no denying that public opinion on the dangerousness of cannabis has changed dramatically in recent years. Florida has not taken the steps that some states have taken to legalize cannabis for medical purposes, let alone for general use. But there’s...

Challenge to Blind Trusts Premature, Florida’s 1st DCA Rules

by Dan Bushell | Feb 23, 2015 | Constitutional Litigation

There’s been considerable teeth gnashing about a 2013 Florida law allowing politicians to hold their assets in blind trusts, and withhold from public disclosure specification of the assets held in those trusts. But the debate is only theoretical at this point,...

U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Florida Commercial Fishing Cases — Part 2

by Dan Bushell | Nov 6, 2014 | Constitutional Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to step in to resolve a long-running dispute between Florida and Georgia. As noted in my previous post, it is the second Florida case on the Supreme Court’s docket this term that involves Florida’s...

Florida Supreme Court Relies on All Writs Jurisdiction to Intervene in Redistricting Dispute

by Dan Bushell | Jul 15, 2014 | Constitutional Litigation, Florida Supreme Court

It is not easy to get the Supreme Court of Florida to hear a case. That is by design: the Florida Constitution was amended in 1980 to curtail the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction so that it may only review a limited number of cases that fall into discrete...
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