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McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a cohabitation law of Florida, part of the state's anti-miscegenation laws, was unconstitutional. [1] The law prohibited habitual cohabitation by two unmarried people of opposite sex, if one was black and the other was white.
The Court noted that "adoption is not a right; it is a statutory privilege" [2] and that adoption is wholly a creature of the state. It then noted that in "formulating its adoption policies and procedures, the State of Florida acts in the protective and provisional role of in loco parentis for those children who, because of various circumstances, have become wards of the state.
The Florida Statutes are the codified, statutory laws of Florida; it currently has 49 titles. A chapter in the Florida Statutes represents all relevant statutory laws on a particular subject. [1] The statutes are the selected reproduction of the portions of each session law, which are published in the Laws of Florida, that have general ...
These are in turn compiled into the Laws of Florida and are called "session laws". [1] The Florida Statutes are the codified statutory laws of the state. [1] The Florida Constitution defines how the statutes must be passed into law, and defines the limits of authority and basic law that the Florida Statutes must be complied with.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574 (1986), was an antitrust case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.It raised the standard for surviving summary judgment to unambiguous evidence that tends to exclude an innocent interpretation.
Florida law enforcement observed Tyvessel White use his car to deliver cocaine on three occasions between July and August 1993. Therefore, they found probable cause to subject his vehicle to forfeiture under the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act.
Following cases in the state have molded and defined the applicability of the Williams Rule in criminal cases. Varying standards of "relevance" seem to apply depending on the prong of the rule applied. The legislature of Florida has also codified the Williams Rule in Florida Statute section 90.404(2)(a). [2]
Papachristou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance being declared unconstitutionally vague. The case was argued on December 8, 1971, and decided on February 24, 1972. The respondent was the city of Jacksonville, Florida.