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...
by Dan Bushell | Nov 5, 2014 | Criminal Law, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, General Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court
Florida commercial fishing industry, meet the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases from Florida in its current term, two of which involve commercial fishing. In the most recently granted case, the state of Florida is set...
by Dan Bushell | Jun 23, 2014 | U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may not be willing to go as far some had hoped in overruling its precedents. That is the message from the Supreme Court’s June 23, 2014 decision in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. Adherence to precedent won the day in...
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 | Jun 20, 2011 | General Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court
2011 will surely go down as the Year of the Class Action in the Supreme Court of the United States. If you were surprised at the potential effects of Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility LLC for consumer class actions (unlike many observers, I didn’t see it as their...
by Dan Bushell | Apr 28, 2011 | General Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court
Sometime around 2004, I heard that consumer class actions were dead. Why? Companies were inserting into consumer contracts mandatory arbitration clauses that waived the right to proceed as a class action. Courts were upholding them – arbitration clauses are,...