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24 Feb 2009, 6:53 am
Florida is buried under a backlog of 95,000 applications for concealed-carry permits, and it needs to hire a lot more people to handle the paperwork, reports the Miami Herald. [read post]
14 Oct 2006, 4:36 am
[JURIST] A judge in Florida refused Friday to block the sale of the controversial video game Bully [game website], ruling that it does not qualify as a "public nuisance" under state law. [read post]
19 Oct 2006, 4:04 am
[JURIST] Florida Judge Janet E. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 7:04 am
[JURIST] The Florida House of Representatives [official website] passed a bill [bill summary] Thursday that would block the withholding of food and water from patients in a persistent vegetative state when the patient did not leave specific instructions refusing artificial feeding. [read post]
23 Mar 2005, 4:43 pm
[JURIST] The Florida Senate has just voted against SB 804 [bill summary] that would have prohibited the suspension of sustenance or hydration of a person in persistent vegetative state when family members disagree on the course of action based on alleged prior oral statements of the person and where that person left no prior written directive. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 9:00 pm
Earlier this year, we discussed two proposed laws, House Bill 47 and House Bill 69, that would have made it a primary offense to text and drive in Florida. [read post]
15 Dec 2006, 4:46 pm
[JURIST] Florida Governor Jeb Bush [official website] suspended all executions in the state Friday after a medical examiner said that the execution of Angel Diaz [Amnesty profile] earlier this week was botched. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 1:40 pm
Follow Procedural Guidelines The Florida Comprehensive Medical Malpractice Reform Act is the state’s law that explains how to sue a doctor for medical malpractice. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 11:34 am
Florida is among the top three most dangerous states for cycling. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 1:52 pm
Moreover, particularly unsettling is that the number of boating accidents and related deaths in Florida last year were the highest of any state in the country. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 5:00 am
In Jacksonville, Florida, a federal criminal trial began recently against a man accused of bringing teen girls across State lines (Virginia to Florida) for acts of prostitution. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 1:32 pm
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that since 1980, more than 700 deaths have occurred in hot tubs. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 6:00 am
Image above courtesy of State Library and Archives of Florida. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 7:56 pm
A new round of the Florida adoption wars seems to be under way, posing a renewed challenge to a 1977 statute providing that a person who is "a homosexual" may not adopt a child in that state. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 6:19 am
But what about all the changes of pleas that have been accepted in Florida Federal and State Court systems which routinely contain provisions which the Florida Bar finds ethically repugnant? [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 2:57 pm
Florida Statute section 827.03 (b) requires the State must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt to charge you with the crime of child abuse. [read post]
3 May 2018, 7:34 am
South Florida Truck Accidents With several of Florida’s major cities located in the south of the state, and few highways connecting the cities to the mainland, Florida highways see huge numbers of semi-trucks and other commercial vehicles. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 3:46 am
Making a New Will The easiest and most effective way to revoke a will in Florida is to make a new will that states the old one is invalidated. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 1:11 pm
It is part of an overall movement in the Legislature to make Florida more accommodating to businesses in an effort to attract jobs to the state. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 9:23 am
Only state-licensed Medical Marijuana Centers, also called dispensaries, are legally allowed to distribute marijuana. [read post]
