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2. Florida State Courts System - Wikipedia

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   The Florida Supreme Court building. The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida.The Supreme Court consists of seven judges: the Chief Justice and six Justices who are appointed by the Governor to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term. [2]

3. Florida v. Bostick - Wikipedia

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   Florida v. Bostick, 501 U.S. 429 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned a per se rule imposed by the Florida Supreme Court that held consensual searches of passengers on buses were always unreasonable.

4. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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   Famous cases heard in the district include the prosecution of former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega, [4] the Elián González case, [5] notorious Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, [6] a 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida case, [7] the prosecution of José Padilla, [8] and one of [9] the federal prosecutions of ...

5. Florida v. Jardines - Wikipedia

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   Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.

6. Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida - Wikipedia

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   Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 517 U.S. 44 (1996), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that Article One of the U.S. Constitution did not give the United States Congress the power to abrogate the sovereign immunity of the states that is further protected under the Eleventh Amendment. [1]

7. Florida District Courts of Appeal - Wikipedia

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   Because the Florida Supreme Court has predominantly discretionary jurisdiction (i.e., can choose which cases it wants to hear), the DCAs provide the final word on the vast majority of cases appealed in the State of Florida. Cases that are affirmed without comment by the district courts cannot be appealed to the Supreme Court, even as a request ...