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The Murder Rule that Just Won't Die: The Abolished Year-And-A-Day Rule Continues to Haunt the Florida Courts
... of Florida law professor Robert Moffat was quoted in the ...in Florida and ...in Florida courts: On March 15, 2007, Circuit Judge William Webb refused to quash the murder indictment, rejecting ...
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Sorting Out the Shootout: Florida Courts Untangle the "Stand Your Ground Law"
... Although the Stand Your Ground Law creates immunity, the proper procedures for one to seek the immunity are not specified. Since the enactment of the Law, Florida courts have considered this issue. The ...
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Allowing Improper Argument of Counsel to be Raised for the First Time on Appeal as Fundamental Error: Are Florida Courts Throwing out the Baby with the Bath Water?
... Florida's five district courts of appeal are divided as to whether counsel's unobjected-to argument can constitute fundamental error in civil cases-even judges on the[r] ...
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For Whom the Statute Tolls? Not Even the Sacred Heart: Florida Class Action Jurisdiction and the Need for Savings Statute to Toll the Limitations Period
... discussed, Florida courts reject American Pipe ...the Florida class action statutes, which expanded federal jurisdiction for these ...in Florida, this decision only stands for tolling of the ...
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"Where the Cause of Action Accrued": How Florida's Venue Statute Violates the Policy It Designed to Protect
... tests Florida courts use to determine where those torts are “complete,” it becomes apparent that the overt acts test improperly fails to make a distinction between act and ...
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Recent Developments
... litigant from possible relief at a later date based on an unelaborated denial—a denial that may not have been decided on the merits of the case—is a great injustice. As the Topps court noted, “the idea under- lying res ...
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Alimony for Men -- The Changing Law
... ering any factor necessary to render justice between the parties, Florida courts can consider the standard of living established during the marriage, the length of the m[r] ...
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Chapter 15: Labor Relations
... The Court held that not only the National Labor Relations Board, but the Florida courts as well have jurisdiction to enforce the state's prohibition against an a[r] ...
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Negligent Retention and Hiring in Florida: Safety of Customers Versus Security of Employers
... There are several problems employers could have with the Florida courts' interpretations of the negligent retention and hiring doctrines. For example, if an employee's [r] ...
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Cruz v. State, 465 So. 2d 516 (Fla. 1985)
... Prior to the supreme court's decision in Cruz v. State, Florida courts had produced conflicting rules of law on the issue of entrap- ment. Some courts examined the cond[r] ...
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Thorns in their Sides: Courts and their Critics in Florida
... The reasonable tendency test could be viewed as a more narrow basis for contempt than the integrity rule, since it declared comment contemptuous only when the wor[r] ...
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Registrants at the Second International Symposium on Informal Logic
... Department of Philosophy Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 U.S.A. Baylor Johnson[r] ...
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Foreign Judgments in Florida Bankruptcy Courts: Choice of Law, Statutes of Limitations, and Other Unresolved Issues
... a Florida bankruptcy proceeding, unless that foreign judgment had been duly registered pursuant to the FEFJA, making it a Florida judgment in every ...
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The Federal Judiciary
... Over the years Congress has created two types of federal courts ◆ Constitutional Courts include the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, the district courts, and the Court of Internation[r] ...
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An analysis of the relationship between athletic expenditures and national success of Olympic sports teams at NCAA Division I institutions
... East Tennessee State Eastern Illinois Eastern Kentucky Eastern Michigan Eastern Washington Elon Evansville Fairfield Fairleigh Dickinson Florida Florida A&M Florida Atlant[r] ...
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ROLE OF THE COURTS
... thing, I will know that you dont really un- derstand the limitations of court procedure. It is not because the judge is more sympa- thetic to a parent who is abusing a child. It is becau[r] ...
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Recidivism and the Courts
... If the law will substitute for its present theory of maximum criminal sentences the conception that societies right to be protected from crime is paramount to any abnormal individual's r[r] ...
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Criminologist and the Courts
... As a result we find that in this group will occur cases belonging to the various other classifications, as there are undoubtedly feebleminded individuals who present this behavior, there[r] ...
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Courts Martial
... As an example of snap-judgment, a member of a general court told counsel, after only one witness in a long case testified, that he thought this witness was a liar and he was going to vot[r] ...
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Florida v. Riley, 109 S. Ct. 693 (1989)
... 58.. 164 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYLA WREVIEW [Vol. These courts either explicitly rejected the open fields doctrine or held that it would apply only if the Katz test wa[r] ...
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