Florida Supreme Court

Attorney General Ashley Moody wants the high court to decide whether hospital districts and school boards should be able to pursue opioid lawsuits after she reached settlements with the pharmaceutical industry.

The appellate ruling was part of decades of legal wrangling about a duPont charitable trust and the nonprofit Nemours Foundation, which was created with money from the trust and provides pediatric medical care.

A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected Attorney General Ashley Moody’s arguments that her office had the power to enter settlements that would effectively trump lawsuits by local agencies.

The 6-1 ruling rejects arguments from the committee promoting the measure after months of legal wrangling. The revised financial statement will appear on the ballot with Amendment 4.

Floridians Protecting Freedom contends the House speaker and Senate president did not have the authority to direct a panel to revise the statement after a circuit judge rejected an earlier version.

The Financial Impact Estimating Conference spent more than five hours discussing how approval of Amendment 4 could affect such things as education and health care budgets.

Attorneys for a grad student went to the Supreme Court after a divided panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from fees that students paid for services.

The total through May 1 was up from the 14,735 abortions recorded in 2024 before the Florida Supreme Court ruled April 1 that a privacy clause in the state constitution does not apply to abortion rights.

The student seeks refunds of fees for transportation, health care and athletics services that were not provided by the University of Florida because of the campus closure during pandemic in 2020.

With the Florida Supreme Court upholding the state’s restrictive abortion ban, patients may soon head to Latin America, where several countries have legalized the procedure, a reproductive health expert says.