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How To: Expanded Record Excerpts

Last month, the Eleventh Circuit explained what it expected attorneys to include in expanded record excerpts. This month, the Court has provided additional guidance [.pdf], providing a summary judgment checklist and a sample of the form the Court expects attorneys to follow for the Index of Expanded Record Excerpts and Table of Record Excerpts.

Justice Canaday Will Be New Chief Justice

The Florida Supreme Court has unanimously elected Justice Charles T. Canaday to succeed Peggy Quince as Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. The Court in a press release [.pdf]explained that Canady will become Florida’s 54th Chief Justice since statehood, and his two-year term will begin July 1. Canaday made his way to the Supreme […]

The Line

Have you ever crossed the protest line of a gaggle of abortion protestors while pregnant?  I have. The Supreme Court almost always has some anti-abortion protestors forming a line in front of the Court when there’s oral argument scheduled.  My memory of that day was sparked by the recent New York Times article about the crowd […]