by Dan Bushell | May 6, 2011 | Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Supreme Court, Real Estate & Foreclosure Litigation
Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals had harsh words for a foreclosing bank’s counsel in Jade Winds Association v. Citibank, N.A., No. 3D11-275, released on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. The 3rd DCA not only reversed an order that had cancelled a...
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 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...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 8, 2011 | Florida Supreme Court, Real Estate & Foreclosure Litigation
If the Florida Supreme Court is bothered by its unpopularity in the Florida Legislature, its decision in Cohn v. Grand Condominium Ass’n, No. SC10-430, released last Thursday, doesn’t show it. In a case of particular relevance to Condominium...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 4, 2011 | Family Litigation, Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court’s precedential decision last Thursday in Kaaa v. Kaaa, No. SC09-967, could make life a bit more complicated Florida family lawyers. Just what you needed, I’m sure! The Court denied a petition for rehearing, and revised its...
