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The Transformation of Education in Florida
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently issued an opinion rejecting a public employee’s challenge to a Florida law that prohibits teachers from using their preferred pronouns in the classroom....more
Based on First Amendment concerns, the Eleventh Circuit has blocked enforcement of provisions in Florida’s Stop WOKE Act that would restrict mandatory trainings endorsing DEI concepts. The Second Circuit has rejected a...more
Florida District Court’s Preliminary Injunction Blocking The Stop Woke Act Affirmed By Appellate Court - On March 4, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s injunction, effectively blocking...more
Executive Summary: On Monday, March 4, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the August 2022 preliminary injunction issued by Judge Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more
The decision is a win for the Florida governor who sought to protect Florida citizens who chose not to get vaccinated. In a 2-1 decision reversing United States District Judge Kathleen Williams’ 2021 Preliminary...more
On August 18, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida partially enjoined Florida’s Individual Freedom Act (“IFA”), also known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act. The law, which...more
Approved on April 22, 2022, and effective July 1, 2022, Governor DeSantis signed into law certain amendments to Florida’s Education Code and Florida’s Civil Rights Act. These amendments, officially known as House Bill 7 have...more
Is the “Stop WOKE” Act dead in Florida? Not yet, but in Honeyfund.com, Inc., et al v. Desantis, et al, one federal district court has certainly put the brakes on it. On March 29, 2022, we informed everyone about Florida HB 7,...more
On August 18, 2022, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida entered a preliminary injunction ordering state officials in Florida to take no steps to enforce HB7, or the “Stop WOKE Act,” while the...more
In a new skirmish in the volatile ESG and culture wars, a Florida federal court preliminarily enjoined enforcement of portions of Florida’s “anti-woke” law, which prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend...more
On April 22, 2022, Governor DeSantis signed into law the Individual Freedom Act—otherwise known as the "Stop WOKE Act"—which set to amend several statutes relating to education and employee rights. Scheduled to go into effect...more
A federal judge recently blocked a Florida law that would have penalized social media companies for removing, or refusing to publish, posts by politicians. Florida legislators approved the legislation after Facebook, Twitter...more
On July 11, 2021 Chief Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida entered an order enjoining the Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation from taking...more
On May 24, 2021, Florida’s governor signed into law legislation prohibiting social media companies from blocking political candidates seeking to use those companies’ websites to communicate with the sites’ users. Almost...more