Bush v. Gore,531 U.S. 98 (2000),was a decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12,2000,that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. On December 8,the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a statewide recount of all undervotes,over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed. The Bush campaign immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision and halt the recount. Justice Antonin Scalia,convinced that all the manual recounts being performed in Florida's counties were illegitimate,urged his colleagues to grant the stay immediately. On December 9,the five conservative justices on the Court granted the stay,with Scalia citing "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush,as the recounts would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over Bush's legitimacy. In dissent,Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm." Oral arguments were scheduled for December 11.
Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.
The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005,regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo,a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery,and in 1998,he elected to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo's parents disputed her husband's assertions and challenged Schiavo's medical diagnosis,arguing in favor of continuing artificial nutrition and hydration. The highly publicized and prolonged series of legal challenges presented by her parents,which ultimately involved state and federal politicians up to the level of President George W. Bush,caused a seven-year delay before Schiavo's feeding tube was ultimately removed.
The legislative,executive,and judicial branches,of both the United States federal government and the State of Florida,were involved in the case of Terri Schiavo. In November 1998 Michael Schiavo,husband of Terri Schiavo,first sought permission to remove his wife's feeding tube. Schiavo had suffered brain damage in February 1990,and in February 2000 had been ruled by a Florida circuit court to be in a persistent vegetative state. Her feeding tube was removed first on April 26,2001,but was reinserted two days later on an appeal by her parents,Bob and Mary Schindler.
The Florida Judicial Nominating Commissions are 26 separately constituted bodies responsible for providing the governor of Florida with a list of possible appointments to the various state courts. These commissions are required under Article V of the Florida Constitution.
Rosemary Barkett is a Mexican-American judge of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal located in The Hague,Netherlands since 2013. Previously,she served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination for that post,she was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Dana Anderson Fabe is an American lawyer,retired judge,and mediator. She served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1996 to 2016,including three terms as the court's chief justice. She previously served as an Alaska trial court judge for nearly eight years,from 1988 to 1996. Fabe was the first woman appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court,as well as its first female chief justice.
Peggy Ann Quince is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida,having previously served as chief justice from July 1,2008,until June 30,2010. Quince was the second African American and third woman to serve as chief justice. She had been a justice of the Court since 1999,and was the first African-American woman to sit on the state's highest Court and the third female Justice. From 1993 to 1997,she served as a judge on Florida's Second District Court of Appeal. On July 1,2008,Quince assumed the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida for two years,the first African-American woman to head any branch of Florida government.
Jorge Labarga is a justice of the Florida Supreme Court,taking office on January 6,2009. On June 30,2014,he was sworn in as Florida's 56th Chief Justice and the first Cuban-American to hold the post. He was succeeded on July 1,2018,by Charles T. Canady.
Cornelia Anne Clark was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 2005 until her death in 2021.
Jennifer Walker Elrod is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
James E. C. Perry is an American judge. He is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Charlene Vanessa Edwards Honeywell is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
The Florida State Courts System is the unified state court system of Florida.
Edwin Harris Drew was a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from August 18,1952,to January 5,1971,including two periods as chief justice.
Wendy Leigh Williams Berger is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She previously served as a Florida state District Judge of the Fifth District Court of Appeal.
Renatha Sian Francis is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2022. She previously served as a circuit judge in Palm Beach County from 2019 to 2022.
