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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 with ambiguities and uncertainties which create challenges for Florida’s law enforcement agencies...
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 is relevant not only to judges." Experience supports that a great many Florida attorneys practice bl...
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 wants it to). A focus of Discovery in Workers' Compensation (2019) is why interrogatories are not allo...
Go right back into the economy. take a listen. >> we're 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. >> shepard: this has to get through congress and the republicans are like, stop it, you know? >> yes. a...