LEGAL
COMMITTEE INITIATIVES
2000 |
WHEREAS, Florida citizens have a distrust and lack of knowledge of the
operating procedures of the court
WHEREAS, the performance of judges would materially improve in
the presence citizens monitoring the
WHEREAS, the State Court Administrator could have access to the comments
of citizens involved in the
WHEREAS, Legislative Session 2000 witnessed the filing of this initiative as Senate Bill S-1134. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Senator Jones be encouraged to
refile the bill for
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WHEREAS, the 2000 Legislative Session passed a bill that would
regulate the access of citizens filing pro se in
WHEREAS, the Staff Analysis is deemed to be in error on both considerations
as well as the fact that the bill
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Legislature enact legislation
to
revoke the passage of a bill
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WHEREAS, Florida Statute 448.101 through 448.105 pertains to private
sector employees
WHEREAS, Section 448.104 authorizes the award of reasonable attorney's
fees, court costs, and expenses
WHEREAS, that provision forces whistleblowers to choose between pursuing
justice or risking potential
WHEREAS, Private Sector employee whistleblowers are being discriminated
against as a Class, because
WHEREAS it constitutes unequal treatment under the law to favor Public
Sector whistleblower employees
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Florida Legislature enact legislation
to modify Section
"A court may award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses to the prevailing party" substituting therefore the following words, identical to the Public Sector Whistleblower's Protection Act, to wit: "In any action brought under this statute,
the relief must include payment of reasonable costs, including attorney's
fees to a substantially prevailing employee, or to the prevailing employer
if the employee filed a
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