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The Situation: The Florida Supreme Court considered whether and how to amend Florida's summary judgment rule to comport with the federal summary judgment standard, which is easier to...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Marsy’s Law was approved by Florida voters in the 2018 general election and amended Article I, Section 16 of the Florida Constitution to provide substantive rights to crime victims.  The Amendment provides crime victims the constitutional right to privacy regarding records that could be used to locate or harass them or their family or which could disclose confidential or privileged information about them.  The Amendment is wrought...

03/02/21 The Florida Supreme Court adopted significant changes to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration by order entered January 21, 2021. The changes are effective March 1, 2021. One important change is the title of these rules, They will henceforth be referred to as the “Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration,” or the “Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin.” The Court explained that "this change is intended to clarify to Bar members that this chapter of rules ...

Judge David Langham Discovery can be a tricky subject, even for experienced attorneys. The conduct of discovery in Florida "court" proceedings is governed by various subject-matter-specific rules adopted by the Florida Supreme Court. The OJCC is not a "court" and the Supreme Court does not make rules for workers compensation proceedings, see That can be confusing. There are the periodic questions about why discovery works the way it does (or more often why it does not work the way someone want...

Go right back into the economy. take a listen. >> were not going to sit on our hands watching middle class homeowners who have done the right thing and played by the rules, get hurt. >> now, they are facing an uphill battle on the capitol hill though for many reasons, including the fact that republics say if you get the fha even more involved in backing these loans at a time when the fha is into their reserves and there is talk about a potential bailout for the fha this could be a bad idea. >> s...

Committee put together a plan for this years calendar all the way back in 2009 after barack obama was inaugurated and put together a calendar that said the first four states, iowa, nevada, south carolina, new hampshire, would all go in february. and then in march all the states would be proportionally allocated and no state could be winner take all until after april 1st. well, that got changed and what happened yesterday in florida was described as a winner take all, all 50 delegates going to th...

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Newt gingrichs team would like to rewrite that bit of political history. today it made a move toward actually doing so. how key, right? well, you may be surprised how the gingrich campaign is fighting the florida rules or fighting to get them to follow the florida rules. and why he just might be successful. and the family of a murdered border patrol agent goes after our government because of the fast and furious gun scandal. and wait until you hear how brian terrys family is doing it. thats ahea...