Florida Bar Journal articles from March 2001

Florida Bar Journal archives from March 2001

Reasonable accommodation or nuisance? Service animals for the disabled.(Americans with Disabilities Act)
March 1, 2001... `How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these." With these...

A recent history of Everglades regulation and litigation.
March 1, 2001... To many Florida lawyers, litigation in the Everglades seems as old as the Everglades itself. Its history can be traced back to the 1800s when Hamilton Disston and Henry Flagler were draining, dredging, and filling Florida's land while fighting...

Making principal invasions under Florida law when an interested party is serving as trustee.(estate planning; taxation)
March 1, 2001... There will always be situations when a client will want to name an interested person to serve as trustee of a trust he or she is setting up. There used to be two reasons for concern whenever someone such as a surviving spouse was named as...

Fraudulent construction liens: Willful exaggeration or good faith dispute?(Florida)
March 1, 2001... File an action on behalf of your contractor client to foreclose a construction lien these days and there is a good chance that you will be confronted with an affirmative defense asserting that the lien is not enforceable because it is...

Dividing pension property after Boyett.(part 2)(Florida)
March 1, 2001... Part I [February] examined the court's use of a non-standard definition of benefit earnings in Boyett and why that creates a greater need for a valuation of benefits than existed before the ruling. It also demonstrated why a coverture (or...

Dot.com (patent pending): Patents are now central to business strategy.(software and Internet companies patenting business methods)
March 1, 2001... Many companies are now rushing to the U.S. Patent Office to procure patents on the companies' main areas of business, especially companies that have software as their main product or that conduct business across the Internet. There are several...

How to Take a Case Before the NLRB, 7th ed.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The seventh edition of the standard reference on practicing before the National Labor Relations Board (BLRB) is now available. How to Take a Case Before the NLRB gives attorneys complete reference to current requirements for conducting...

Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Key information on 141 national and international unions is available in the 2000 edition of the Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations from BNA Books. This latest edition provides an index to private- and public-sector unions and union...

Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Sixteen new issues and three new cases are addressed for the first time in the 2000 supplement to Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, which brings the resource up to date on the statutory and common law developments through 1999....

Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit.The 2000 Cumulative Supplement to Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The 2000 Cumulative Supplement to Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit updates the treatise's analysis of patent issues in recombinant technology, plant and animal breeding, and pharmaceutical inventions, and is available from BNA Books. New...

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The history, politics, and drama of the New York City foster care system are chronicled in the 512 pages of The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, a nonfiction narrative by New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein....