Robert Rivas's Legal Cases (17)

Government

Memorial Hospital-West Volusia, Inc. v. News Journal Corp., 784 So. 2d 438 (Fla. 2001)

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OUTCOME: We won

Counsel for amici, First Amendment Foundation, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, Florida TODAY, The Palm Beach Post, the Pensacola News Journal, The St. Petersburg Times, and The Sun-Sentinel, in l ... andmark case on the application of the Government in the Sunshine Laws.

Constitutional

Florida Youth Conservation Corps, Inc. v. Stutler, 2006 WL 1835967, 2006 Lexis 44732 (N.D. Fla. June 30, 2006)

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OUTCOME: We won

Sued the State to establish that a new law was prohibited Bill of Attainder

Litigation

Fabel v. Masterson, 951 So. 2d 934 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007)

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OUTCOME: We won

Representing appellant, prevailing in securing reversal of a final summary judgment against the seller in a case involving the buyer’s breach of a contract to sell a $2.35 million home.

Election campaigns and political law

Advisory Opinion to the Governor re: Appointment or Election of Judges, 983 So. 2d 526 (Fla. 2008)

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OUTCOME: We won

Representing Leon County elections supervisor, established that vacant judgeship had to be filled by election, not, as the governor preferred, by appointment,

Insurance

Advantage General Ins. Co., Ltd. v. KILN/QBE Intern., 8 So. 3d 1213 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)

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OUTCOME: We won and made new law

Complex case on the rights of insurance carriers and reinsurers

Constitutional

United Teachers of Dade v. Stierheim, 213 F. Supp. 2d 1368 (S.D. Fla. 2002) (Ungaro-Benages, J.)

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OUTCOME: We won

First Amendment case

Constitutional

McIver v. Krischer, 65 U.S.L.W. 2544, 1997 WL 225878 (Fla. Cir. Ct. Jan. 31, 1997), rev’d, 697 So. 2d 97 (Fla. 1997)

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OUTCOME: We won at trial and lost on appeal

A landmark case in the movement for the right to death with dignity.

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