Archive for October, 2009
Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event | www.azstarnet.com ®
Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event | www.azstarnet.com ®. Interesting brief article discussing Justices Scalia and Breyer’s debate on how to interpret a constitution.
Read Full Entry »Cases Arising out of Florida’s Foreclosures and Down Property Market
One of the biggest economic concerns in Florida continues to be the decreased prices in the real property markets, both residential and more recently commercial. Any time this type of financial upheaval occurs, important legal cases will result, although sometime the maxim that difficult facts can result in bad law holds true. The classic example […]
Read Full Entry »Sansom’s Motion to Dismiss Official Misconduct Charge Granted
The Trial |Judge Issued his ruling to day on the Sansom official misconduct charges, and dismissed them, leaving only a perjury charge based on Sansom stating that the College had requested the increase in funds and the state contradicting that testimony.Sansom Order Dismissing Official Misconduct. As we previously noted, the arguments to dismiss were not […]
Read Full Entry »Supreme Court Denies Review in Frazier- Florida Pledge of Allegiance/ Parent’s Rights Case
Well, the Supreme Court issued its order list of cases it granted Cert in last week after its first long conference, and Frazier was not among the cases Cert was granted in, but as of today Cert has now been denied. For those of you not familiar with this case, a case I had the […]
Read Full Entry »NCAA Public Records Opinion Issued
Well, the First DCA issued its opinion today in the NCAA Public records case, and no real surprises, given the oral argument. The court held the records were public because they were received by a public agency. The court did specify that it was not deciding whether the requested records were protected under FERPA if […]
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