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The Legislature proposed bill HB 7027, based on the committee's recommendation, which was then passed and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis in June 2022, creating the Sixth District Court of Appeal, the first new appellate court since the 1979 creation of the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. The effective date for the creation was January ...
The Florida Second District Court of Appeal is headquartered in Tampa, Florida on the campus of Stetson University College of Law. It will move to St. Petersburg when the new Pinellas courthouse is complete. [1] There are nine counties in the Second District, which includes a population of over 5.0 million people.
The Fourth DCA was created in 1965; the Fifth DCA was created in 1979; and Sixth District Courts of Appeal was created in 2023. [ 2 ] The existence of the DCAs was provided for in the Florida Constitution , which now requires the legislature to divide the state into appellate court districts, providing each with a DCA.
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The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. and will be heard in front of a three-judge panel with each side receiving 20 minutes for oral arguments at the Florida District Court of Appeals.
A unanimous panel of Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal Wednesday declined to offer an opinion on Gov. Ron DeSantis' argument that he has "executive privilege" to conceal records.
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.
When the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal was established in 2023, the caseload for the Fourth Circuit, including the counties of Duval, Nassau and Clay was shifted from the 1st DCA to the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. [3] The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1.6 million people. [4]