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The article discusses the Supreme Court's refusal to revive a Florida law banning children from adult performances, highlighting dissenting opinions and emphasizing the law's ongoing First Amendment challenge in lower courts.

The article focuses on the Supreme Court's decision to hear challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that seek to prohibit large social media companies from removing posts based on their content, raising questions about how the First Amendment applies to powerful tech platforms.

The article discusses the Florida law imposing fines on large social media platforms that refuse to transmit the views of politicians who run afoul of their standards and the Texas law applies to social media platforms with more than 50 million active monthly users. It mentions the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding this next month.

The article focuses on young associate in a prestigious Miami law firm, Barbara Lagoa took on an unusual pro bono case, one without a supervising partner and against a formidable adversary the Clinton administration.

The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Hall v. Florida that the state of Florida's rule barring anyone with an Intelligence quotient (I.Q.) score over 70 from avoiding the death penalty based on intellectual disability, highlighting the court's ruling that the rule is too rigid. Topics addressed include Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's writing of the majority opinion in the case, as well as the case's relationship to the court's ruling in the case of Atkins v. Virginia.

The article reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down an aspect of capital punishment system of Florida in January 2016 stating that it did not give jurors a sufficient role in deciding whether defendants should be put to death.

The article reports that several U.S. Supreme Court justices have questioned whether the idiosyncratic capital sentencing system in Florida provides enough authority to jurors.

This article describes a Florida law that allows crime victims to use deadly force in certain situations in which they might have formerly been charged with a crime. Fourteen other states have enacted similar self-defense laws. The Florida law gives people the right to use deadly force against someone who forcefully enters their home or automobile without proving fear for their safety. A person attacked in a public place need no longer retreat and can meet force with force.

Reports that the fight over the life or death of Terri Schiavo continues with a flurry of legal activity in the state of Florida. Governor Jeb Bush who managed to get a state court to hear new motions in the case presenting an affidavit from a neurologist who said her brain damage appeared less severe than previously thought; Filling by her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for an emergency order to restore the feeding tube; Jeb Bush who suggest the state might seek to gain legal custody of Ms. Schiavo; State lawyers who appeared in Circuit Court who asked to intervene in the case; Successful effort by Michael Schiavo to bar the state's Department of Children and Families from removing her from the hospice where she has gone 6 days without feeding or hydration.

The article reports on the U.S. Supreme Court justices who seemed skeptical on how Florida decides who is eligible for death penalty on account of intellectual disabilities during a hearing in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 2014.

WASHINGTON --In 1978, when he was 27, Manuel Valle killed a police officer in Coral Gables, Fla. In September, when he was 61, Mr. Valle was put to death for his crime. A couple of hours earlier, the Supreme Court had refused to stay his execution -- with one dissent. Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that the 33 years Mr. Valle had spent on death row amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether states may forbid government officials to vote on matters where they appear to have a personal conflict. The case, which concerns a member of a city council in Nevada, was one of seven the court added to its docket. Eight states, led by Florida, had urged the court to hear the case, Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, No. 10-568. Their brief said that recusal laws for public officials were ''a measured response to the credibility gap between the public and its public officials.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- A project to restore eroded beaches in the Florida Panhandle did not violate the Constitution's takings clause even though the state claimed ownership of the strip of land the project created next to the ocean, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The vote was 8 to 0 against property owners who challenged a ruling of the Florida Supreme Court that had, as they put it, turned oceanfront property into ocean-view property. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that web company Advanced Consulting & Marketing has challenged a law in federal court in Miami, Florida, which prohibits depiction of animal cruelty. The company broadcasts cockfights on the Internet through its Web site www.toughsportslive.com from Puerto Rico. The company argued that cockfights are legal in Puerto Rico, where cockfighting is part of its culture. The law was enacted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1999.

The article reports on a recommendation made by a panel in Florida that condemned inmates should be completely sedated before injecting them with the two painful lethal chemicals, namely barbiturate and pancuronium bromide. It has been recommended that the state should explore chemicals in order to substitute for the paralytic drugs. The panel also recommended 12 minor improvements in training and practices of executioners.

Reports on the lessons learned from the case of Terri Schiavo, a woman who died from euthanasia in Florida.

Reports that two federal judges in Ohio have blocked the Republican Party from placing thousands of people inside polling places to challenge the eligibility of voters in the November 2, 2004 presidential elections. Significance of the decision for Democrats, who argued that the challengers would have intimidated minority voters; Details of the rulings by Judge Susan J. Dlott and Judge John R. Adams, which came within hours of each other; Intent of Republican officials to mount such challenges in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Florida and New Mexico; Outlook for lawsuits that are likely to be filed if the election is close in any so-called swing state; Background on the battle over Election Day challenges; Arguments of the Republicans; Appeals by Republicans. INSET: Legal Challenges on the Horizon.

Reports that a Miami, Florida judge has dismissed a criminal case against the environmental group Greenpeace in midtrial.

Reports on the constitutional crisis created by enacting a law that effectively reversed a series of court decisions allowing a Florida man to withdraw life support from his brain-damaged wife in 2003. Case brief; Legal battles won by Michael Schiavo to remove the life-support system of his wife Terri.

Reports that prosecutors in Florida and across the United States have mounted a vigorous challenge to using DNA testing in reaction to a series of prisoner releases since 1988. Their skepticism of the power of DNA testing; Criticism of prosecutors by defense attorneys for complaining about this practice, which has been used successfully in convictions; Setting of a deadline for prisoners to request DNA testing for old cases; Details of cases in Florida where this controversy is relevant.

Reports that gay couple Wayne LaRue Smith and Daniel Skahen have challenged Florida's ban against homosexual adoptions at a federal appeals court.

Reports on the elimination of a rule prohibiting freedom of speech among candidates in judicial elections. Restrictions formerly placed on judges by the legal system; Discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court case, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White; Involvement of Justice Thomas J. Spargo in the 2000 presidential election in Florida.

Reports on the ruling of a Florida appeals court to exclude clergy members from juries as of October 13, 2002.

Focuses on a lawsuit filed by paraplegic Edward Law against Wildside Adult Sports Cabaret in West Palm Beach, Florida because an area where private lap dances are performed is elevated.

Reports on the Florida trial court ruling which held that the state's capital sentencing statute is constitutional, as of July 2002.