by Dan Bushell | Mar 27, 2012 | Constitutional Litigation
It turns out that the case challenging the ACA’s individual mandate isn’t the first time the Supreme Court has been confronted with questions about the interplay of the health insurance and health care markets. The previous case, called Blue Shield of...
by Dan Bushell | Feb 8, 2012 | Constitutional Litigation
I may be the only person in the world who is more interested in the 9th Circuit’s decision in Perry v. Brown, (the much publicized suit over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8) for its lessons in advocacy than for its political issues. I...
by Dan Bushell | Sep 7, 2011 | Constitutional Litigation, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Probate Litigation
So much for easing back to work after the long weekend. At least for judges in the First District and Fourth District Court of Appeal. As the Miami Herald reports, the 1st DCA is hearing consolidated oral argument this afternoon in Florida Gaming Centers,...
by Dan Bushell | Aug 16, 2011 | Constitutional Litigation, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
If you read through all 207 pages of 11th Circuit Judge Hull and Judge Dubina’s co-authored majority opinion in Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, you’ll notice that although the state Attorneys General succeeded in having the Health...
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...
