Legal Opinion
Florida Family Policy Council v. Freeman
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 2009No. 07-14830PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Florida Family Policy Council, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that distributes questionnaires to judicial candidates in order to gather and publish their views on legal and political issues. Florida Family’s attempts to gather judicial candidates’ views, however, have been hampered in part by Canon 3E(1) and 3E(l)(f) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct. Those provisions address situations in which a judge must disqualify himself because his “impartiality might reasonably be questioned,” including when he has “made a public statement that commits, or appears to…
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