Patrick T. Canan Law Blog

After a DUI arrest the DMV suspended the driver's license and the driver appealed the ruling to the Circuit court. Then, according to the appellate court, the Circuit court failed to apply correct law in reversing
license suspension on ground that arresting officer lacked sufficient basis to
initiate stop of licensee's vehicle. Only founded suspicion is necessary to
effectuate a DUI traffic stop, and the findings of the hearing officer clearly
supported the... Read More

Houston v. GEO, et al., Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal – Just this week, the Fourth DCA agreed with a prison inmate who argued that his pro se medical malpractice complaint was wrongly dismissed without an evidentiary hearing for the inmate’s failure to provide a corroborating expert opinion, even though the inmate alleged that he was denied timely copies of his medical records. In Florida, medical malpractice cases generally are required to follow a strict... Read More