by Dan Bushell | Dec 20, 2013 | Constitutional Litigation, Florida District Courts of Appeal
Gun rights advocates received a big win in Florida’s First District Court of Appeal on December 10, 2013. The 1st DCA took the unusual step of issuing seven separate opinions to explain the result. Sitting en banc in Florida Carry, Inc. v. University...
by Dan Bushell | Nov 21, 2013 | Constitutional Litigation, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Insurance Coverage, Tort/Injury Litigation
Florida’s acupuncture physicians and massage therapists recently learned that they are (again) ineligible to be paid PIP benefits for treating automobile accident victims. Chiropractors learned that PIP coverage of their services has (again) been curtailed as...
by Dan Bushell | Nov 7, 2013 | Constitutional Litigation, Family Litigation, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court
Issuing its opinion in DMT vs. TMH, a closely watched case that drew national attention, the Supreme Court of Florida today declared that a woman has constitutionally protected rights to raise a child created by artificial insemination using her ovum, with the...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 16, 2013 | Constitutional Litigation, Courts, Criminal Law, Family Litigation, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court, General Civil Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Probate Litigation, Products Liability, Real Estate & Foreclosure Litigation, Tort/Injury Litigation
In the past few years, the strangest things have started appearing in appellate decisions: images. That has been seen as so revolutionary that it has been widely covered in the legal press, with 7th Circuit opinions authored by Judge Richard Posner (as is often the...
by Dan Bushell | Jun 28, 2012 | Constitutional Litigation
As by now you may have heard, in a move that defied the pundits and the odds-makers, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Here’s a link to the opinion. Chief Justice ROBERTS...
by Dan Bushell | May 1, 2012 | Constitutional Litigation, Florida Supreme Court
The end of April traditionally marks the end of the busy season in South Florida, with spring break and holidays over, snow birds returning north, traffic easing, and lower summer rates kicking in. So I guess it’s fitting that our appellate courts last week...