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December 10, 2019
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The Florida Bar
LSC PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FRESH THINKING ON HELPING POOR LITIGANTS
The Florida Bar | Article | December 10, 2019
The Daily News Summary features Florida Bar News stories on the Southern Most AIDS/HIV Ride, career counseling and improving help for poor litigants. James Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, spoke at the Dec. 6 meeting of the Supreme Court’s Commission on Access to Civil Justice and encouraged members to find ways to make sure people with little or no resources get their day in court. One study found 75 percent of the parties in state court civil cases, did not have lawyers — and that did not count family court cases where the numbers were even higher. Ninety percent of tenants in eviction cases do not have lawyers.
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Civil Justice
FLORIDA GROUPS SEEK GREEN LIGHT FOR ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
CBS Local 4 | Article | December 09, 2019
The political committee Ban Assault Weapons NOW, the gun-control group Brady and a coalition of 13 cities filed briefs Friday [Dec. 6] saying that their proposal meets legal tests to go before voters. Attorney General Ashley Moody, the NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation filed briefs last month arguing that the ballot wording would not give an adequate explanation of the effects of the proposal. Ban Assault Weapons NOW has proposed placing the amendment on the November 2020 ballot, though it is unclear whether the committee can meet a February deadline for submitting 766,200 valid petition signatures to the state. As of Monday [Dec. 90] morning, it had submitted 124,683 signatures.
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Civil Justice
HOW 2 WOMEN’S TRIP TO A FLORIDA STRIP CLUB SPARKED A CONSTITUTIONAL BOUT IN COURT
Orlando Sentinel | Article | December 09, 2019
After being denied entry into an Orlando strip club because they were not accompanied by a male, Brittney Smith and Anita Yanes filed suit against the club accusing it of violating Orange County’s human-rights ordinance, which protects against discrimination including gender, sexual orientation and nationality. Circuit Judge Keith Carsten of the Ninth Judicial Circuit rejected the women’s claim and sided with the strip club stating that Orange County’s ordinance was preempted by the state’s anti-discrimination law. That sparked a constitutional battle that has more than 40 cities and counties fearing their anti-discrimination ordinances could be nullified.
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Legal Discipline
MIKE HUCKABEE FILES “TWEET” COMPLAINT AGAINST WALTON COUNTY ATTORNEY
WUWF | Article | December 09, 2019
A Florida Bar complaint was filed Oct. 24 by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s attorney J. Nixon Daniel III alleging that Walton County attorney Daniel Uhlfelder used social media to “harass” him by repeatedly posting about the quiet title/customary use issue in Walton County. Uhlfelder and Huckabee are on opposing sides of a beach-access battle that has been waging since July 2017. Uhlfelder is the counsel of Florida Beaches for All, a citizens group working to save the “customary use” ordinance that allows beachgoers to access dry sand areas of private beach property, which became void when House Bill 631 was signed into law in April 2018. Huckabee, who owns a beachfront home in Walton County, has been opposed to customary use.
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Tech Tip
How to Block Ad Tracking on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
The Florida Bar | Article | December 10, 2019
If you want to opt-out of seeing ads based on your App Store and Apple News search history you can choose to turn on the Limit Ad Tracking setting on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV or you can turn off Apple’s location-based ads on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Here is how.