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By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | June 27, 2018
The controversial 2017 change shifted a key burden of proof in “stand your ground” cases, a shift that can play a role in determining whether people claiming self-defense should be shielded from prosecution.
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By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida | June 27, 2018
In the unanimous decision, the court ordered the removal at 5 p.m. Monday of Judge Scott DuPont, who heard cases in Putnam and Flagler counties in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
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By Charles Toutant | June 26, 2018
Carlia Brady, the Superior Court judge who beat criminal charges but who now faces disciplinary action for harboring her fugitive boyfriend, denied seeking special treatment based on her status as judge from police officers who arrested her. But her belief at the time that she was pregnant influenced her conduct during and leading up to that time, she said.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 26, 2018
“These injunctions did not emerge until a century and a half after the founding," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion in the travel ban case Trump v. Hawaii. "And they appear to be inconsistent with longstanding limits on equitable relief and the power of Article III courts. If their popularity continues, this court must address their legality.”
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By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | June 26, 2018
A three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal ruled Friday against physician Osakatukei Omulepu, who argued that his constitutional rights had been violated when an administrative law judge took into account his refusal to testify during a hearing.
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By Katheryn Tucker | June 26, 2018
This is a case about cotton. B.B. King once called cotton "a force of nature"—"[t]here's a poetry to it," he wrote, "'hoeing and growing cotton,'” Judge Kevin Newsom said. “Here, the poetry of the hoeing and growing has given way to a nasty little feud over the selling.”
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By Greg Land | June 25, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert McBurney commiserated with the plaintiffs, whose child suffers from "actual, present struggles," but said Georgia law currently does not allow such claims.
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By Ellis Kim | June 25, 2018
The former Trump campaign chairman's lawyers notified the district court of their plans Monday to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That notice came 10 days after Manafort's pretrial release was revoked.
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By Katheryn Tucker | June 25, 2018
Chief Justice Harris Hines with Justices Keith Blackwell and Nels Peterson surprised Joel Wooten with a resolution saying he "can be counted on to get the job done" and "never calls attention to himself.”
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By Karen Sloan | June 25, 2018
The school let the public choose the names of two osprey chicks hatched on campus, and voters kept with a legal theme.
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