Florida

These Proposals Seem Terrible!

What the hail are they doing in Tally:

Cannon wants to break the seven-member Supreme Court into two separate five-member tribunals, one to handle only civil cases and the other to hear only criminal cases, similar to systems in Texas and Oklahoma. That would give Gov. Rick Scott three appointments to the state?s highest court.

Cannon?s plan would require the three most senior justices ? Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince ? to join the criminal appeals court.

Full post as published by South Florida Lawyers on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).