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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court says the state needs an additional 80 trial court judges -- 26 circuit court judges and 54 county court judges -- to handle the growing amount of court filings.
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Ternus DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Voters in Iowa ousted three state Supreme Court justices who helped make same-sex marriage in the state legal.
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McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced on Tuesday that a Tampa electric company has agreed to issue a one-time refund to customers as part of a $24 million settlement.
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Soccer's World Cup has begun, the NBA Finals are getting tight and baseball is hitting its summer months. It's a great time of year to be an athlete or sports fan, and Legal Newsline presents 10 of the most athletic state attorneys general and state supreme court justices.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A Florida jury has awarded more than $17 million to a widow whose husband died in 1995 after a lifetime of smoking cigarettes.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline)-The Florida Supreme Court on Monday issued an administrative order requiring a statewide mediation program to handle some home foreclosures.
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ATRF President Sherman Joyce WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - South Florida is again the country's most plaintiffs-friendly jurisdiction, according to the American Tort Reform Foundation's annual "Judicial Hellholes" report, released Tuesday.
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Workman CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman has filed her dissent in a public records case, arguing that 13 e-mails written by former Justice Spike Maynard should have been released to the public.
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Davis CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Private communications of government employees don't belong to the public, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decided on Nov. 12.
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Charles Wells TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles T. Wells has notified Gov. Charlie Crist that he will retire from the high court at the close of business March 3.
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Florida Supreme Court building TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline)-The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a lawyer representing an injured worker is entitled to reasonable fees, sparking a sharp rebuke from the state Chamber of Commerce.
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Ricky Polston TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline)-Ricky Polston, a Florida appeals court judge, was appointed Wednesday to the state Supreme Court.
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Florida Supreme Court building TALLAHASEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline)-The Florida Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a proposed ballot measure that would trade a significant property tax cut for increases in other taxes.
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Florida Supreme Court building TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Legal Newsline)--Fifty candidates have applied to fill two upcoming vacancies on Florida's Supreme Court.
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Peggy Quince TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Supreme Court Associate Justice Peggy Quince today becomes the first black woman to lead the state's court system as the high court's chief justice.
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Dudley Goodlette TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Former state lawmaker Dudley Goodlette has said he wants to be named to fill one of four upcoming vacancies on the Florida Supreme Court.
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William Large TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline)-The Florida Supreme Court could be completely reshaped in the near future, with four of the high court's justices stepping down in the coming months, legal observers told Legal Newsline.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Allstate is asking the Florida Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision suspending it from selling insurance in the Sunshine State.
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Lewis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - An election will fill the vacant spot on the bench of the Leon County Circuit Court, the Florida Supreme Court said Monday in response to a request from Gov. Charlie Crist.
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Allen TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - With violations of judicial ethics charged over an appellate judge's opinion, the Florida Supreme Court is looking for answers.