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    438092; -84.283585 The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida. It consists of seven justices—one of whom serves as Chief...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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    types of courts created by the Florida Constitution (the other three being the Florida Supreme Court, Florida district courts of appeal, and Florida county...
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  • The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the Florida State Courts System. Its membership consists...
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    Bush and Al Gore. The Florida vote was ultimately settled in Bush's favor by a margin of 537 votes when the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bush v. Gore, stopped...
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    the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the president of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869,...
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    intermediate level of appellate review between the trial courts (the county courts and circuit courts) and the Florida Supreme Court. This was done, as...
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    United for Care turned in 745,613 of the required 683,149 signatures, and on January 27, 2014, the Supreme Court of Florida ruled 4-3 that the initiative...
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  • States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters of state law, the...
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    justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. In 2020, Lagoa was a finalist to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the...
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    Renatha Francis (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    (born 1977) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2022. She previously served as a circuit judge in Palm...
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    Meredith Sasso (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since May 2023. She was previously the chief judge on the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal. Sasso...
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    Legislature, consisting of the Senate and House; and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of Florida and lower courts. The state also allows...
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    demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 116 people...
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  • abortion law in Florida stated that abortion was illegal unless "necessary to preserve the life of such mother", but the Supreme Court of Florida in 1972 ruled...
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  • Bush v. Gore (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court)
    was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election...
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  • (1930–1995), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri Elwyn Thomas (1894–1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Florida James Burrows Thomas...
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    Jamie Grosshans (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. Grosshans grew up in Brookhaven, Miss., and graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law...
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  • regain the right to vote upon the conclusion of their sentences. However, the Supreme Court of Florida ruled that the bill was unconstitutional because...
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  • The Florida State Courts System is the unified state court system of Florida. The Florida State Courts System consists of: The Florida State Supreme Court;...
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    C. Alan Lawson (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    as a justice on the Supreme Court of Florida from 2016 to 2022. He previously was a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. He is a founding...
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    Charles Canady (category Chief Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    June 22, 1954) is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to...
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    John D. Couriel (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    Couriel (born March 23, 1978) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. Couriel received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, and a Juris Doctor...
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    Florida v. Harris, 568 U.S. 237 (2013), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed the reliability of a dog sniff by a detection dog...
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  • Delaware, Florida, and Indiana. Indiana abolished it in 2002, Florida in 2016, and Alabama in 2017. In 2016, the Delaware Supreme Court declared the...
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    Barbara Pariente (category Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    December 24, 1948) is an attorney and jurist from Florida. She was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from July 1, 2004, until June 30, 2006. Pariente...
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  • Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227 (1940), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the extent to which police pressure resulting...
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    Carlos G. Muñiz (category Chief Justices of the Florida Supreme Court)
    justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 22, 2019. Previously, he was General Counsel of the United States...
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    November 2023, Moody urged the Florida Supreme Court to block the ballot initiative, as she questioned the definition of "viability" and argued that the...
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