Florida Health Scis Ctr. v. Tribune Company
Feb 20, 2001OUTCOME: Trial Court withheld certain documents from discl
Appeals court reversed.
Thomas H. McGowan's Legal Cases (6)
Saint Petersburg, FL
Lawsuits and disputes Lawyer at Saint Petersburg, FL
Practice Areas: Lawsuits & Disputes, Wills & Living Wills
Rogers v. Rogers
Aug 10, 1993OUTCOME: Trial Court Reversed
Husband prevailed in trial court in getting alimony reduction. Appellate court held he was voluntarily underemployed, and restored the wife's full alimony retractively.
Sanchez v. Swanson
Nov 28, 1984OUTCOME: Appeals Court reversed a trial court ruling .
The laintiff, suing Sanchez appealed an unfavorable ruling entered in a couty court case. He filed the appeal in a satellite office of the clerk on the last day allowed, and the appeal was not formall ... y stamped by the central office until a day later. Judge Maynard Swanson held that the existing law regarding this procedure was not constitutional, and Sanchez sued him ex officio. The apellate court agreed with Swanson and held that henceforth in florida the filing of any paper in any clerk's satellite office was to be date stamed tere and considered timely filed.
LEWIS V. EVANS
Oct 23, 1981OUTCOME: Appeals Court reversed a defamation verdict
The trial court ignored jury instructions on the proper way this case should have been decided. On appeal the court reversed the trial court completely.
Mary Viator v. The FLorida Bar
Jul 20, 1977OUTCOME: Plaintiff prevailed over Bar's refusal to accept h
After the plaintiff timely sent her application for admission to the Florida Bar, through no fault of her own the paperwirk did not arrive on time. In spite of proof that she sent the paperwrk timely ... the Bar refused to accept her application. The case was taken to the Supreme Court of FLorida which mandated the Florida Bar to accept her application.
Corrections Corporation of America v. St. Petersburg Times
N/AOUTCOME: Appeals Court Upheld Favorable Ruling
In a landmark decision, a private firm contracted by the state to run a prison contended its records were not public records because it was not a state entity. The trial court ruled against them and t ... he appeal court agreed, making new law in FLorida
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