Supreme Court of Florida

2024 Civil Justice Update

Mark A. Behrens

Federalist Society Review, Volume 26

This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2024. Part I discusses legal reform...

Florida Court Snapshot

Morgan W. Streetman

Florida Supreme Court Takes A Stand Against “Gubernatorial Activism”

On July 3, 2008, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida Governor Charlie Crist usurped...

Merit Selection and School Reform

Publius

An analysis of the correlation between the “Missouri Plan” for selecting judges and litigation decisions regarding school financing and school choice.

Few areas of law are the source of more contentious litigation than education cases, particularly...

Florida Supreme Court Allows Assignment of Legal Malpractice Claim to Third Party Plaintiff

Publius

In Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., v. Kaplan,1 the Florida Supreme Court decided whether a...

Montana Supreme Court: Physician-Assisted Suicide Is an End-of-Life Option

Rita L. Marker

On the last day of 2009, Montana’s Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Baxter v....

Florida Supreme Court Finds Expectation of Privacy for Third Party Disclosures

Caroline Johnson Levine

In Tracey v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court recently determined that the Fourth Amendment requires police...

Bogorff v. Scott

Christina Martin

In Bogorff v. Scott, the Florida Supreme Court revealed the difficulty many property owners face when...

League of Women Voters of Florida v. Scott

Jordan E. Pratt

Which Florida governor—the outgoing or the incoming one—will have the authority to appoint successors for...

Florida Supreme Court Strikes Down School Voucher Program

Publius

Since 1999, Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (the “OSP”)1 provided students in failing public schools,2 which...

Tort And Federal Preemption (Florida)

Publius

The Florida state court system recently closed its books on an important tort and federal...