ADDITIONAL CASES & RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
ANGELICA AVILA V. BISCAYNE 21 CONDOMINIUM, INC.
Focus area: Private Property Rights
Court: Third District Court of Appeal, State of Florida
Case status: Closed
To survive, Florida’s businesses count on courts to contextually construe their contracts. Before the issuance of this Opinion, this Court had firmly established itself as a contextualist court. But in a few lines of text and a lengthy footnote in this case, it shatters the contextualist lens through which all Florida contracts must be read.
BUSH V. HOLMES
Focus area: School Choice
Court:
Case status: Closed
1. Foundation President Frank Shepherd supported and helped craft Article V, sec. 21 of the Florida Constitution, adopted by the people of the state on November 6, 2018, which prohibits judges from giving deference – ie. “rubber stamping” – agency interpretations of statutes and rules in the Florida courts. He appeared before the Florida Constitutional Revision Commission on two occasions that year to testify in favor of the amendment.
