Open Government, Retaliation and Redress: Case Study from Florida
12/6/19
By: Michael Kouskoutis
Florida is well known for its robust public records law, where, upon receipt of a public records request, custodians of public records are required to promptly acknowledge the request, then permit the requested records to be inspected …
United States Supreme Court to Decide Whether Georgia Law can be Copyrighted
7/15/19
By: Jason Kamp
The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether the annotations contained in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA.) can be copyrighted by the state of Georgia, granting certiorari in State of Georgia, et al. …
11th Circuit Does Not Mesh Around and Upholds $27M Judgment
11/13/17
By Samantha Skolnick
In a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Court upheld almost $27 million in judgments against Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC). The consolidated cases stemmed from women who claimed to have …
SCOTUS Affirms FMG Victory In First-Of-Its-Kind 11th Circuit Flash Bang Case
10/10/17
By: Wayne S. Melnick and A. Ali Sabzevari
Previously, we blogged on a first-of-its-kind summary judgment obtained by Freeman Mathis & Gary in a Section 1983 case involving allegations of excessive force based on the police’s use of “Flash …