Two law professors later joined the suit after they were told they needed permission to file friend-of-the-court briefs in a case challenging another state law requiring felons to pay all their court fees and fines before they could have their voting rights restored. How a Florida university system 'stacked' with mega-donors became 'blatantly political'ĭeSantis mega-donor, UF Board of Trustees chair supplied Ladapo's resume, fast-tracking surgeon general's hireįlorida Surgeon General Ladapo was rushed into UF College of Medicine job, emails show Sharon Wright Austin, Ph.D., is a professor of political science at the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “We are confident we will succeed as well.” Robert Hoover “testified notwithstanding the denial, believed the denial was unconstitutional and filed and injunction and succeeded,” he said. These same set of facts were presented in a defining First Amendment and academic freedom case involving a professor at Texas A&M University (Hoover v. “Instead of walking away from the denials, the defendants are doubling down on them and making clear that these plaintiffs may be punished for what they believe is an unconstitutional prior restraint.” “He did an excellent job illustrating the chill," O’Neil said. “It is unclear why he’s presenting these facts now in oral arguments.”īut Bartolomucci illustrated very clearly why the UF policy should be struck down as unconstitutional prior restraint, O'Neil said. “Your honor made it clear either party could seek discovery,” said David O’Neil, a Washington, D.C. It would be impossible to have an injunction hearing if he had to reopen the public record every time lawyers had new information to share. Walker got worked up over the fact that he offered an opportunity for discovery and the lawyers waived it. and instead decided to drop this bombshell.
“Or did you decide (you) really didn't have a defense. “Are you saying you are just incompetent?” Walker asked.
The judge also lectured him about his failure to check public records. Walker asked Bartolomucci to explain his “11th-hour epiphany'' but quickly cut him off when he started to repeat his previous statement and threatened to force him to Tallahassee and place him under oath to explain himself. “These are the very reports and experts we knew about, but we just learned in the last two days the Earth is not round and there’s gambling in Casablanca and these professors had their reports before they submitted requests for approval.” Judge asks lawyer to explain '11th-hour epiphany' “It strains credulity when you say these are newly discovered facts when they are all part of the public record,” Walker said. Instead, Walker grilled and lectured him for several minutes, cutting himself short after saying the lawyer’s behavior had raised some serious ethical issues.
MORI HOSSEINI DESANTIS TRIAL
District Judge Mark Walker to reopen discovery - the fact-finding phase that happens before a trial - so they could introduce new evidence. … They have unclean hands, and shouldn’t enjoy relief.” They have misled counsel, the employer and this court. “These facts are found nowhere in complaints. “We now know they were actively working before they submitted their request,” Bartolomucci said in the online proceeding. lawyer for UF, said he and his team discovered just two days ago that the professors had actually prepared their testimony before requesting permission to testify. UF board chairman defends administration in academic freedom controversyĬhristopher Bartolomucci, a Washington, D.C. DeSantis as foe to academic freedom at faculty union forum Ron DeSantis and the Legislature, who decide on the public university's budget each year.įederal judge hears arguments in UF academic freedom case, no decision yetĭemocrats portray Gov. It was the second hearing in two weeks on the lawsuit, originally filed by three UF political science professors denied permission by the school to give expert testimony against the state’s year-old elections law because it put UF at odds with Gov.
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A federal judge in Tallahassee Friday blasted a lawyer for the University of Florida for bringing up "new" information in a closely watched lawsuit over free speech and academic freedom.
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