TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- The Florida Supreme Court is being asked to overturn a rate increase approved last year for the state's largest utility provider.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court held that an arbitration provision in a valid contract between a nursing home patient and the nursing home binds the patient's estate and heirs in a subsequent wrongful death case.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- The Florida Supreme Court has adopted new rules governing lawyer advertising, according to an opinion released last week.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court ruled that knowledge that a contractor or subcontractor does not hold the state required license to perform the construction work of the contract does not allow the unlicensed party to establish the defense that the parties stand in pari delicto - as equal wrongdoers.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court answered four certified questions regarding state law in a breach of contract and deceptive trade practices case before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
TALAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday found that the amending of the Florida Retirement System by the state Legislature, which made several significant changes including changing the pension from noncontributory to contributory, was facially constitutional.
Bondi TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is refusing to back the state Republican Party in its decision to oppose the retention of three Florida Supreme Court justices.
Chief Justice Ricky Polston MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A bipartisan group of state and city elected officials, along with AARP Florida, urged the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn the nuclear cost recovery payment scheme.
Lewis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A group working to help oust three members of the Florida Supreme Court announced Saturday it will be traveling the state this month, touting its so-called "report card" on the three justices.
Lewis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A Leon County Circuit Court judge last week threw out a lawsuit requesting that three state Supreme Court justices seeking a "yes" or "no" from voters in November be removed from this fall's ballot.
Lewis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Two Florida men filed a lawsuit last week requesting that three state Supreme Court justices seeking a "yes" or "no" from voters in November be removed from this fall's ballot.
Polston, at left. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Supreme Court Justice Ricky Polston has been picked to be the Court's new chief justice, starting July 1.
Lewis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court last week affirmed a trial court's ruling in a wrongful death lawsuit, holding that a group of Airgas Carbonic Inc. employees are subject to the personal jurisdiction of the state's courts.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear the appeal of a tobacco company that was ordered to pay a $28.3 million in an important Florida case.
Bondi TALAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi requested Friday that the Fourth District Court of Appeal certify that its recent decision in a foreclosure case includes a question ripe for consideration by the state Supreme Court.
Canady TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday the state needs 71 more trial court judges and only one more judge in the Second District Court of Appeal.
Joyce WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Philadelphia's civil courts system has been named the nation's worst by the American Tort Reform Foundation for a second consecutive year.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Gov. Rick Scott has approved a $45.6 million loan so the state court system can continue to operate until spring.
Canady LLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -- Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady has asked Gov. Rick Scott for more funding so the state's courts can continue to operate.
