Florida Legislature
The State of the Florida Legislature
... The purpose of this Arti- cle is to examine the condition of the Florida Legislature and com- pare it to other legislatures in terms of decision-making capacity, th[r] ...
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Mediation: The Florida Legislature Grants Judicial Immunity to Court-Appointed Mediators
... The Florida Legislature has granted this essentially absolute immu- nity to court-appointed mediators. Yet the exceptions to judicial im- munity described above will [r] ...
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The Sun Rises on the Florida Legislature: The Constitutional Amendment on Open Legislative Meetings
... Senator Kiser, listed required open meetings and meetings that would require prior notice. The amendment specified that sessions of each house of the Legislature; me[r] ...
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The Florida Legislature Tolls the Death Knell for Interspousal Immunity in Tort
... Per- haps, if the Florida Supreme Court were to, likewise, reconsider Florida's adherence to the interspousal immunity doctrine in light of § 21 of the Declaration o[r] ...
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You Can Never Go Home Again: The Florida Legislature Adds Incarceration to the List of Statutory Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights
... 1997 Legislature sought to prevent a child from languishing in foster care, unable to be adopted into a stable, nurtur- ing environment because a long-term incarcerated parent will not relinquish his or her ...
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No Liability for the Wrongful Death of Unborn Children -- The Florida Legislature Refuses to Protect the Unborn
... Arguments that were persuasive to courts under the common law trade secret cases should carry over into the reasoning of UTSA cases. However, there are aspects of the[r] ...
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Telecommunications Reform and the Death of the Local Exchange Monopoly
... the Florida Legislature to control the adverse effects of the local exchange ...1995 Florida telecommunications reform that relate to local exchanges and were not preempted by the federal ...
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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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Principles Matter: Policy Making Based on First Principles
... ida House of Representatives, a set of five principles provided me both focus and discipline when my party gained majority status in the Florida Legislature after a 120-year [r] ...
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Do You Know the Fair Market Value of Your Property?: A Call to the Legislature to Revise Section 775.089, Florida Statutes, Governing Restitution
... the Florida Legislature should revise section ...the Florida Legislature should adopt the Fourth DCA’s proposal, but with the following three caveats that incorporate aspects of the federal ...
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Jimmy Ryce Involuntary Civil Commitment for Sexually Violent Predators' Treatment and Care Act: Replacing Criminal Justice with Civil Commitment
... the Florida Legislature passed the Jimmy Ryce Act unanimously, the Act is controversial to courts, academia, and civil rights activists because it raises constitutional concerns: civil rights violations ...
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The Due-on-Sale Clause: Current Legislative Actions and Probable Trends
... In an interesting parallel development, the Florida Legislature considered the issue of due-on-sale provisions in its 1981 session. Under strong lobbying from the sa[r] ...
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Florida's Expedited Permit Review Process: Streamlining the Development of Florida's Economy
... In 1996, the Florida Legislature reorganized the state's economic development structure by creating an expedited review process for state and regional agency permits.[r] ...
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Using Convictions to Impeach under the Florida Evidence Code
... Section 90.610(1) of the Evidence Code uses the same language in defining the types of convictions that are admissible to impeach except that the Florida Legislature[r] ...
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Voting and Information Aggregation in Parliamentary and Semi Presidential Democracies
... the legislature provides full information aggregation in single round voting for a range of aggregation ...the legislature and the ...the legislature, ...the legislature and the president is ...
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Discovery Depositions in Florida Criminal Proceedings: Should They Survive?
... That the Legislature urges the Supreme Court to give due consideration to the petition submitted by the State Attorneys of Florida and institute the changes in Rul[r] ...
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In re Estate of McGinty, 258 So. 2d 450 (Fla. 1971)
... Where, as in the case of the homestead devise provision, the language proposed by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission was unchanged by the legislature. wit[r] ...
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The Current State of Advance Directive Law in Ohio: More Protective of Provider Liability than Patients Rights
... In order to protect a patient’s right to refuse medical treatment, the Ohio Legislature needs to repeal civil and criminal immunity. In addition, the legislature should codify the righ[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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Probate Law in Montana—Changes by the 1981 Legislature
... 3 A key provi- sion makes all estate assets administered in this state "subject to all claims, allowances, and charges existing or established against the person[r] ...
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