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House passes judicial term limits in close vote

Published on February 24, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

A judicial term limits initiative that is stalled in the Senate barely passed out of the House Wednesday. The House approved the measure (HB 197) on a 76-38 vote. Because imposing term limits on appellate judges and justices requires changing the state constitution, it needed three-fifths of the House, or at least 72 votes. A companion measure (SB 322) has yet to be heard in the Senate with less than three weeks left in the 2016 Legislative Session. Even if…

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2016 Legislative Food Fights: Legal, judicial reforms again on lawmakers’ to-do list

Published on January 11, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

They don’t get as much attention as policy debates that gum up and even fracture legislative sessions (think Medicaid expansion), but a slew of proposed legal-related changes will be before legislators this year – some new, some old standbys. For instance, the Legislature will try to overhaul Florida’s alimony law for at least the third time in recent years. The same sides have aligned against each other: Ex-spouses – largely men – who say “forever alimony” isn’t fair, and their former mates – mostly women…

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Today on Context Florida: Judicial term limits, bring back the clowns and balance billing reform

Published on October 27, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Term limits have spelled disaster for the Florida Legislature, says Martin Dyckman; it erases experience, dumbs down the process, and leaves lobbyists even more firmly in control. It was the achievement of people who preferred to weaken government rather than improve it. Florida being Florida, he says, it figures that some people now propose to do the same to the judiciary. As a child, Marc Yacht loved the circus. Back then, they were still pitching tents. The…

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