Supreme Court of Florida - June 2010 Opinion Summaries

Bifulco v. Patient Bus. & Fin. Serv., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In plaintiff's wrongful termination suit against her former employer, Fifth District's reversal of trial court's grant of defendant's motion for...

Florida Bar v. Ratiner

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In Florida Bar's complaint against an attorney in connection to his alleged misconduct during the deposition of a representative of DuPont, referee's...

Pasha v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions for two first degree murder of his wife and step-daughter and sentence to death are reversed and remanded as the trial court committed...

Olmstead v. Fed. Trade Comm'n

Consumer Protection Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Judgement Enforcement
An order to partially satisfy a judgment against defendant in the FTC's suit for unfair or deceptive trade practices is affirmed as Florida law...

Florida Bar v. Hines

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Property Law & Real Estate
In the Florida Bar's complaint against an attorney, arising from events in the course of acting as attorney and closing agent in a real estate...

Florida Bar v. Scott

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In Florida Bar's complaint against an attorney, arising from the attorney's representation of a client-firm against the Commodity Futures Trading...

State of Florida v. Blair

Criminal Law & Procedure
The decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Blair v. State is approved and the Fifth District's contrary holding disapproved as pretrial...

Miller v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's convictions for first degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, burglary and attempted robbery and a death sentence are affirmed in...

Banks v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction for first-degree murder and sentence of death are affirmed as none of defendant's claims, including claims that the trial court...