By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | May 24, 2018
The change shifted a key burden of proof from defendants to prosecutors in “stand your ground” cases, and the issue in the appeals is whether that change should apply retroactively to defendants whose cases were pending before the 2017 law passed.
By Katheryn Tucker | May 23, 2018
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Britt Grant, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, sailed through her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.
By Colby Hamilton | May 23, 2018
U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Wednesday that the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account falls under the U.S. Supreme Court's public forum doctrine.
By Gary Fineout, Associated Press | May 23, 2018
The lawsuit takes aim at a decision made by Secretary of State Ken Detzner in 2014 that the University of Florida student union could not be used by Gainesville city officials as an early voting site.
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | May 23, 2018
Lawyers for the tribe last week filed a notice of appeal after a federal judge refused to reconsider his decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Seminoles against the Florida Department of Revenue.
By Charles Toutant | May 22, 2018
The suit was brought by the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs and a Wall, New Jersey, resident who was denied a permit to carry a handgun because he could not demonstrate a justifiable need.
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida | May 22, 2018
The ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a previous federal court decision in the case, which has dragged on for more than a decade and was filed by Prison Legal News over a publication allowed in institutions in every other state but banned by Florida corrections officials.
By John Council | May 21, 2018
Three Harris County hearing officers have sued the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in an attempt to overturn their discipline for denying personal…
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 21, 2018
The opinion comes out about six months after the judge denied the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary's bid to have a significant portion of the pelvic mesh litigation removed from the First Judicial District for lack of jurisdiction.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Paul Shechtman | May 21, 2018
May 20, 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in 'Bruton v. United States', 391 U.S. 123 (1968).'Bruton' is a Warren Court landmark and an example of its activism in the cause of defendants' rights.
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