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The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the Florida State Courts System.Its membership consists of seven justices–one of whom serves as Chief Justice–who are appointed by the Governor of Florida to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term.
The Supreme Court of Florida has appellate jurisdiction that is discretionary (cases the Court may choose to hear if it wishes) in most cases and mandatory (cases the court must hear) in a few cases. In some matters, the Court has original jurisdiction , meaning that the case can begin and end in the Supreme Court absent a basis for further ...
Florida Supreme Court Justice Meredith L. Sasso speaks during a hearing of oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The hearing regards Florida's redistricting map ...
Meredith L. Sasso (born 1982 or 1983) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since May 2023. She was previously the chief judge on the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal .
Florida voters will decide this election whether they want to retain two Florida Supreme Court justices. Get to know Renatha Francis.
What are the biggest challenges facing a Texas Supreme Court justice?: Canon 3B(2) provides that a “judge shall not be swayed by partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism.”
The associate justices were the judges of the eight district courts of Texas. The district judges, whose first session was January 13, 1840, served with the chief justice as associate justices from January 13, 1840 to December 29, 1845, when Texas was admitted into the United States:
He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2022. [1] Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Canady was a judge on Florida's Second District Court of Appeal from 2002 to 2008, and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001.