Word: unanimouse
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A showdown between the Florida and the U.S. Supreme courts is really no contest. Under federalism, the U.S. Supreme Court can overrule state courts where issues of federal law are involved. But the real drama lies in whether five Justices will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court...
There were deep divisions as well in the Florida Supreme Court's own ranks. It is Jurisprudence 101 that when a court delivers a bombshell decision, the judges struggle to be unanimous. But the Florida court split 4-3, and the rift was a bitter one. Attached to the court...
It began with the unanimous first opinion he coaxed out of a court deeply and obviously divided on the matter of Bush v. Gore. Its beauty was its subtlety. Indeed, it was so subtle that it took three days for the TV mavens to figure it out. At first, they...
Even after Friday, many legal experts were still shocked that the court took the state case to begin with. They contend that the Justices will simply decide not to rule, availing themselves of an option used several times each term: dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," a phrase at once...
Baker, visibly more relaxed before the cameras ever since he's had Florida Chief Justice Charles Wells to quote admiringly, did look especially confident Sunday as he made the rounds. He spent a lot of time defending his old "judicial fiat" attacks on the Florida Supreme Court (back when it...