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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.
To further discern the justices' ideological leanings, researchers have carefully analyzed the judicial rulings of the Supreme Court—the votes and written opinions of the justices—as well as their upbringing, their political party affiliation, their speeches, their political contributions before appointment, editorials written about them at the time of their Senate confirmation, the ...
Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz listens to arguments on the proposed abortion amendment on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. He said the amendment’s apparent assumption that the state ...
The court issued one sentence as the 11 a.m. deadline for its regular weekly opinion release came and passed: "There are no Florida Supreme Court opinions ready for release today, March 28, 2024."
The Supreme Court sets ethical standards for the legal profession, and The Florida Bar recommends discipline for violators. Felos took the rejection letter's use of language from the Bar's Rule of ...
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.
In their recent decision in support of a six-week ban on abortion, the Florida Supreme Court specifically invalidated a right to privacy for Florida women. But this goes beyond women and abortion ...
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]