by Dan Bushell | Sep 18, 2015 | Florida Supreme Court, Real Estate & Foreclosure Litigation
Continuing from my last post, this post (also excerpted/adapted from my CLE presentation o the Florida Bar Appellate Practice Section) outlines some unique legal issues that arise in foreclosure appeals. Attorney’s Fees Particularly in residential...
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...
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 | Aug 1, 2013 | Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court, General Civil Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Products Liability, Tort/Injury Litigation
People make mistakes. Even lawyers. Even judges. We are all human after all, and to be human is to be fallible. In the pressure-packed environment of a trial or hearing, the probability that a mistake will be made is even greater. Part of the job of an appellate...
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 | Nov 7, 2012 | Courts, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court justices and District Court of Appeal judges who were up for retention votes this year had a great day yesterday. Congratulations go out to all of the retained justices and appellate judges: Florida Supreme Court: Justice R. Fred Lewis...
