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In days of old when knights were bold and gentlemen believed in honor… In those days of old, if you were to wrong me and failed to pay proper recompense, we dueled…often to the death. Today, in our democracy, we have access to the courts for redress of our differences […]

It was a Democrat who made “court packing” a scheme, a political move. And, it was done by an American president I confess to admiring for a great many reasons; his plan to pack the US Supreme Court with only justices who would see things his way, is not one […]

Big Tobacco receives two pieces of news that, well, is going to really not make for a merry Christmas this year. Clearly a classic of “beware what you wish for my friend, for surely you shall receive it!” Every time a jury finds against Big Tobacco, their talking heads come […]

Those Big Tobacco guys are at it again. Do they not care for Florida juries, Florida judges, or the Florida Supreme Court? At the least, Big Tobacco does not like the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in the “Engle” cases. These cases stem from a class, which was decertified by the […]

The short answer in Florida is…No. In Fields  v Kirton, 961 So. 2d 1127 (2007) the 4th District Court of Appeals certified a question to the Florida Supreme Court of great public importance: Whether a parent may bind a minor’s estate by the pre-injury execution of a release. The Florida […]