Category: U.S. Supreme Court
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Appeals court’s ruling in favor of ex-U.S. Rep. David Rivera may be fatal to FEC’s mission
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org When a federal appeals court threw out the Federal Election Commission’s $456,000 judgment against former Republican Miami congressman David Rivera last week, it may also have inflicted a mortal blow to the FEC.
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Justice Renatha Francis’s former trial court colleagues still punishing litigant who called her out for trampling women’s rights
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A Loxahatchee woman remains trapped in Palm Beach County family court years after she defied Renatha Francis, who abruptly dropped the woman’s case before her promotion to the Florida Supreme Court.
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Florida Bar gives Trump’s tainted Broward counsel a pass but bedevils a lawyer on DeSantis’s blacklist
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Florida Bar gives Trump’s tainted Broward counsel a pass but bedevils a lawyer on DeSantis’s shitlist.
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As U.S. Supreme Court’s workload drops, justices seek hefty budget increase to include 24-hour private security
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org While it’s gone largely unnoticed by the national media, the U.S. Supreme Court’s workload fell again with a sharp 22 percent decrease in the number of cases filed in the court’s paid docket – even as Chief Justice John Roberts is asking Congress for a 22 percent increase in the court’s…
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What’s going on with trial court ‘consolidation’? It looks a lot like Florida-style gerrymandering
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A new push to “consolidate” Florida courts has people talking about politics — more precisely, about gerrymandering.
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Judge Cannon beat the odds to draw new Trump case; She also got free trip to posh Yellowstone resort from right-wing law school
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Twice in her short tenure as a federal judge in South Florida, Aileen Cannon has drawn two of the most historic cases in American history, both involving the man who appointed her to the court, former President Donald Trump.