Jones v. Governor of Florida
| Docket Number | 20-12003 |
| Decision Date | 11 September 2020 |
The people of Florida amended their state constitution to restore the voting rights of convicted felons. Before regaining the right to vote, felons must complete all the terms of their sentences, including imprisonment, probation, and payment of any fines, fees, costs, and restitution. Felons sued, challenging the requirement that they pay their fines, fees, costs, and restitution before regaining the right to vote. They alleged the requirement violated the Equal Protection Clause as applied...
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36 cases
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Austin v. Univ. of Fla. Bd. of Trs.
...More Professors in Cases Against the State , Tampa Bay Times (Nov. 2, 2021), https://tinyurl.com/553ufkym; see also Jones v. DeSantis , 975 F.3d 1016 (11th Cir. 2020).24 Before Dean Rosenbury acted on Professor Nunn's request to sign on to the amicus brief in July 2020, Governor DeSantis, a......
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Otto v. City of Boca Raton
...Brown , 996 F.3d 1171, 1196–99, 1202–05 (11th Cir. 2021) (en banc) (Wilson, J., dissenting); Jones v. Governor of Fla. , 975 F.3d 1016, 1066 (11th Cir. 2020) (en banc) (Jordan, J., dissenting); Keohane v. Fla. Dep't of Corr. Sec'y , 952 F.3d 1257, 1279 (11th Cir. 2020) (Wilson, J., dissenti......
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Thompson v. Merrill
...has unequivocally stated that "[d]isenfranchisement is punishment." Jones v. Governor of Fla. , 950 F.3d 795, 819 (11th Cir. 2020) .9 In Jones II , while disagreeing with much of Jones I , the court continued to use language indicating that disenfranchisement statutes are punishment, notin......
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Mendoza v. Strickler
...limitations on imposing subsequent or additional incarceration on those unable to pay their fines. See Jones v. Governor of Florida , 975 F.3d 1016, 1032 (11th Cir. 2020) (en banc) ("The Supreme Court has never extended Bearden beyond the context of poverty-based imprisonment. ") (emphasis ......
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Election Law as Ideology: Toward a New Historiography of Democracy as a Function of Law
...418 U.S. 24, 56 (1974) (upholding voter restrictions disenfranchising people with past felony convictions); Jones v. Governor of Fla., 975 F.3d 1016, 1035, 1045–46 (11th Cir. 2020) (upholding statute conditioning re-enfranchisement on full payment of criminal fines and penalties). 65. See ......
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Indigenous Subjects.
...Colonizations Harms, 27 WM. &MARY BILL RTS. J. 501, 513-14 (2018); Serrano, supra note 131, at, 447-48. (171.) See Jones v. Florida, 975 F.3d 1016, 1043 (11th Cir. 2020) (citing Rice for the rule that the Fifteenth Amendment "does not subject race-based voter qualifications to strict sc......
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Gender, Voting Rights, and the Nineteenth Amendment
...race. See, e.g. , Jones v. DeSantis, 462 F. Supp. 3d 1196, 1235 (N.D. Fla. 2020), rev’d and vacated sub nom. Jones v. Governor of Fla., 975 F.3d 1016 (11th Cir. 2020) (finding that plaintiffs had come much closer to establishing intentional discrimination in the Fifteenth Amendment claim t......
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JUDICIAL MORAL PROPHECY.
...any "authority to ... discern what 'the right side of history' is on a given question"). (4.) See, e.g., Jones v. Governor of Florida, 975 F.3d 1016, 1050 (11th Cir. 2020) (en banc) (Pryor, C.J., concurring) ("Our duty is not to reach the outcomes we think will please whoever comes to sit o......
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