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A $3 million dollar campaign contribution to a West Virginia Supreme Court judicial candidate should have prevented the elected candidate from presiding over a case involving this contributor. Yet, it took years before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a $50 million judgment in favor of that contributor in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009). The Brennan Center for Justice of the New York University School of Law recently reported that most states, including Florida, have not heeded Caperton’s call to strengthen judicial recusal rules.
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Don’t Waive Your Appeal: A Guide to Preserving Trial Error
by Shannon Tan
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The Times They Are a Changin’: The Impact of Technology and Social Media on the Public Workplace, Part II
by Gregory A. Hearing and Brian C. Ussery
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Estate Planning with Portability in Mind, Part II
by Lester B. Law and Andrew T. Huber
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CERCLA’s Rock and Hard Place: A Look at the Interpretive Conundrum Created by the “Innocent Landowner” Provision
by Jeffery C. Close
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FTC’s New Business Opportunity Rule: Reduced Disclosure But Increased Coverage
by Keith J. Kanouse
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April 2012
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Volume 86, No. 4
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A Horse Is a Horse (of Course, of Course) But Is It Agriculture? Whether Ranches Dedicated to Abused, Abandoned, and Aging Horses Qualify for “Agricultural” Classifications Under Florida’s Greenbelt Law — by Michael T. Olexa, Joshua A. Cossey, Katherine Smallwood, and Zach Broome (Feb. 2012)
Qué RICO? Discarding the Fallacy that Florida RICO and Federal RICO Are Identical — by Etan Mark and Monica F. Rossbach (Jan. 2012)
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