The Florida Supreme Court issued an order directing the impanelment of a statewide grand jury on school safety. This comes after Governor DeSantis filed a petition with the court requesting the grand jury on February 13, 2019. […]
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a statewide grand jury to examine and review school safety measures throughout the state, as well as the responses of public entities to laws designed to protect schools such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. […]
Attorney General Ashley Moody released the following statement on Governor Ron DeSantis’s selection of Justice Carlos G. Muniz for the Florida Supreme Court. […]
The Supreme Court of Florida on Thursday upheld Gov. Rick Scott’s removal of Orange and Osceloa State Attorney Aramis Ayala from trying murder cases after she announced she would not seek capital punishment penalties. […]
On Thursday, in a 4-3 decision by the Florida Supreme Court, a 2003 law setting caps on medical malpractice damages in personal injury cases was declared unconstitutional. […]
Good news for medical marijuana supporters in the Sunshine State: the Florida Supreme Court gave the seal of approval on ballot language for an amendment to legalize medical pot on Thursday. […]
Backers of medical marijuana will need to collect more than 683,000 signatures by next February in order to get a Florida constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana on the ballot again in 2016. […]
Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana appear to have submitted enough petition signatures to spur a review by the Florida Supreme Court. […]
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that at least eight congressional districts be redrawn because of violations of an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment. […]
A year ago, a Brevard County judge interrupted court proceedings to scuffle with an assistant public defender after threatening to “beat your ass” in a video that quickly went viral. […]
The decision by House leaders to end their legislative session more than three days early violated the state Constitution, a majority of the Florida Supreme Court said Friday, while ruling that it was too late to order lawmakers to return to Tallahassee. […]
Pointing to privacy rights, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday said police need to get warrants before using cell-phone information to conduct “real-time” tracking of criminal suspects. […]
