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The case centers around fees students paid for services that were not provided during the COVID-19 campus shutdown in 2020.
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Florida's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's current congressional redistricting map, rejecting a challenge over the elimination of a majority-Black district in north Florida that was pushed by Republican Gov.
Florida’s congressional districts will stand, after the Florida Supreme Court upheld the maps, rejecting a challenge over a Black district.
A majority opinion written by Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz accepted DeSantis’ past arguments that the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Constitution overrides a demand in Florida’s Fair Districts language that the power of minority voters cannot be diminished in the redistricting process.
The case centered on Congressional District 5, which in the past stretched from Jacksonville to west of Tallahassee, and elected Black Democrat Al Lawson. During the 2022 redistricting process, DeSantis argued that keeping such a district would be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and successfully pressured lawmakers to overhaul the district.
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WCJB TV20 on MSNSupreme Court sides against University of Florida in pandemic-era student campus fees lawsuitThe state Supreme Court has ruled against the University of Florida in a lawsuit over charging some student fees during the COVID-19 lockdown.
About 70 scholars, lawyers and former judges are pushing ahead with their ethics complaint against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
DeSantis, in a social media post, said that "this was always the constitutionally correct map — and now both the federal courts and the FL Supreme Court have upheld it."
Florida passed a law making it a crime for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state. A federal judge said it's likely unconstitutional.
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Chief Judge Frank Allman penned an eight-paged letter dated June 27 to Marshall, outlining what he called “a pattern of excessive delays and ongoing filing and docketing errors resulting in inaccurate court records,
The Florida Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the state’s congressional map championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which reconfigured a district in North Florida, erasing Black representation in that area of the state,
The Florida Supreme Court ruled in a case Democrats hoped could have given them an additional seat ahead of the midterms.