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Two Words this election season: Vote Early!! I have regularly voted on Election Day. There is nothing wrong with the early voting process and absentee voting is quite fine as well. In fact, this year, I strongly recommend you consider to early vote or vote by absentee ballot. Go to […]

I haven’t had much experience in my life with having everyone regularly agree with me on any given subjects.  In fact, I don’t have ANY life experience with that phenomenon, yet that is exactly what Governor Scott and the folks at “Restore Justice 2012” want Floridians to vote for in […]

This November, our Florida ballot will include eleven – count ‘em, eleven – proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution.  Each one is on the ballot because it was sponsored by the State House or State Senate.  I recommend voting “no” to each of the eleven amendments for both procedural and […]

I have written about this case before. This is a case where two central Florida CVS pharmacies were filling highly suspect prescriptions for powerful pain medications for patients, including for non- Florida residents. The facts of this case were egregious and no serious effort to stop financially lucrative and improper […]

A read a very interesting article in the Atlantic highlighting the new Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study recently published in the British Medical Journal’s Quality and Safety Journal. I must give these folks credit for the candor in what one could argue is an embarrassing finding for the […]

In 2010, Florida State Representative Scott Plakon, R-Longwood, sponsored Amendment 9, a proposed state constitutional amendment aimed at stopping the federal health care law (aka “Obamacare”) from being implemented in Florida. The Florida Legislature passed a joint resolution containing the text of the proposed amendment, as well as a ballot […]

I wrote last week about Republican voter suppression efforts, and the unfortunate decision of a judge in Pennsylvania not to block that state’s voter ID law, which could disenfranchise up to 750,000 mostly minority voters. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]

“Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is why must we go on hating, why can’t we just live in bliss” -Cat Stevens ‘Peace Train’ While I certainly share in the singer/songwriters desire for peace and am moved when I hear this song, it is the […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (August 24, 2012) — 13 lawyers from Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013. Chris Searcy, Jack (John) Scarola, Greg Barnhart, John Shipley, Cal Warriner, Brenda Fulmer, Karen Terry, Chris Speed, Sia Baker-Barnes, Jack Hill and Ed Ricci (West […]

Many states have their vacancies for judges filled through a typical election. Candidates file, they campaign (to the extent they are ethically allowed), and the candidate with the most votes assumes the office of judge. That is the way we in Florida handle all judicial positions except those judges in […]