When addressing issues of domestic law, the general rule is that an expert’s dispositive legal testimony is inadmissible because it invades 1) the province of the court to instruct the jury concerning legal standards, and 2) the competence of the jury to apply the facts to the instructed law.1 However, there are exceptions — albeit ill-defined ...
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Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 726 (2012). The problem is 8 Duffield, supra n.2. 10 using government power to do indirectly what offi- cials are prohibited from doing directly: censoring op- posing views. When the government expressly or by implica- tion pressures a private actor to censor speech, the risk of undue influence looms large. As a matter of persuasion, t...
FLORIDA
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court may suspend the justice or judge from office, with (4) The commission shall adopt rules regulating its or without compensation , pending final determination of proceedings, the filling of vacancies by the appointing the inquiry. authorities, the disqualification of members, the rotation (2) The supreme court may award costs to the of members between th...
How Free Is the Speech of Public School Students?
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In 1996, a Broward County high school art student sued the school board after her principal removed her sexually suggestive sculpture from a public display within the school.1 In 1997, a Palm Beach County middle school student sued the school board after her principal removed her science fair project (concerning the durability of condoms) from a public displ...
New Appellate Rule for Probate and Guardianship Proceedings
Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.170, titled “Appeal Proceedings in Probate and Guardianship Cases,” took effect on January 1, 2012.1 The new rule gives clarity to the often cloudy issue of when an order in probate or guardianship is or is not appealable. Rule 9.170 provides a nonexclusive list of 24 types of appealable orders in probate and guardianshi...
2024-2026 Professionalism
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Thereafter the court shall issue an order classifying the member as an inactive member. If an order of restoration is entered by a court having jurisdiction or the attorney is discharged from hospitalization under the Florida Mental Health Act or the author- ity of other applicable law concerning the capability of an attorney to practice law, the attorney ma...