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Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, 575 U.S. 433 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the First Amendment did not prohibit states from barring judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting funds for their election campaigns since that specific restriction on candidate's speech was deemed to be narrowly tailored to serve the compelling interest of ...
Moody and Paxton were challenges to two state statutes – enacted in Florida and Texas, respectively – that sought to limit this moderation. In July 2024, the justices vacated the lower-court decisions in both cases due to both courts failing to perform a full First Amendment assessment of the laws, and remanded them for further consideration.
In an 8-0 decision in favor of the State of Florida, Chief Justice Burger wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court. Citing Estes v. Texas (1964), the Court denied Chandler's claim that a media presence in the courtroom is offensive to due process. So long as the "evolving technology" does not infringe on "fundamental guarantees" of the accused ...
The legislation approved 79-34 by the House had been roundly criticized by ethics officials, who say the change – coupled with another limiting the power of city and county ethics panels ...
Ensuring Supreme Court justices comply with ethics rules will require an enforcement mechanism, writes Stephen I. Vladeck. Opinion: The Supreme Court code of conduct misses this big thing Skip to ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must face an ethics lawsuit by state attorney regulators over a case he brought challenging results of the 2020 election, according to a court ruling posted on ...
Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514 (1968), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a Texas statute criminalizing public intoxication did not violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The 5–4 decision's plurality opinion was by Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Florida Commission on Ethics; Agency overview; Formed: 1974; 51 years ago () Jurisdiction: Florida state and local public officials, other than judges. Headquarters: 325 John Knox Road, Building E, Suite 200, Tallahassee, Florida [1] Motto "A public office is a public trust" [2] Annual budget: $2.7 million (2021) [3] Agency executives