Category: Courts
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Conservative Florida Supremes say it’s ok for aspiring judge to tell voters she’s ‘a conservative’
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Casey Woolsey, a county court judge in St. Augustine, agreed with ethics regulators that she crossed a line when she wooed a voter by saying, “I am a conservative and my website is…” But then the arch-conservative Florida Supreme Court informed those ethics regulators they were the ones who crossed a line. -
Florida Bar conjures up dubious ethics complaint against DeSantis critic Daniel Uhlfelder
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Bar is scrapping standard operating procedure in its long-running ethics case against a lawyer who defied and embarrassed Gov. Ron DeSantis with a national audience during the run-up to his presidential bid. -
PR exec’s pushback on story about his lawyer friend’s death looks like crisis management for Florida Bar
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A leader of a Tallahassee PR firm that’s paid to polish the Florida Bar’s image says embattled attorney Daniel Uhlfelder “completely concocted” a story about his father’s suicide to gain sympathy and, not coincidentally, harm the Bar. -
New statewide bond scheme widely challenged as unconstitutional
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s tough new uniform bond schedule, which took effect Jan. 1, is already under “numerous’ constitutional challenges throughout the state, according to court papers filed in one such challenge in Miami-Dade. -
Florida Bar gives Trump’s tainted Broward counsel a pass but bedevils a lawyer on DeSantis’s blacklist
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Bar gives Trump’s tainted Broward counsel a pass but bedevils a lawyer on DeSantis’s shitlist. -
Cities, counties brace for Tallahassee to escalate war on home rule for local issues next session
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The new year promises hopeful resolutions, healthier diets and, in the Florida state Capitol, more pounding away at the battered right of home rule.
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