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Associate’s Corner: Florida’s Appellate Courts Split on the Scope of FDUTPA—Will More Foreign Consumers Gain Protection from Fraudulent and Deceptive Trade Practices?

By May 13, 2013

By: Jorge Delgado The Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, popularly known as FDUTPA, was designed to protect consumers from fraudulent and deceptive trade practices.  In a typical scenario, a Florida consumer would sue a company that transacts business in Florida over activities that occurred entirely in Florida. However, …

Associates’ Corner: Commercial Speech and the First Amendment

By December 20, 2012

By Jorge R. Delgado Among the classes of protected speech under the First Amendment, commercial speech does not rank in the highest echelons.  But businesses should not be quick to dismiss a potential constitutional challenge to governmental regulation that improperly infringes on their right to advertise, exchange information, or engage …

The Problem Play of Voting Rights: Is it Curtain Call for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act?

By November 6, 2012

By: Jorge R. Delgado “Voter ID” laws, voter purges, early voting changes, and similar measures have become familiar terms in today’s news cycle.  One person’s initiative to stop voter fraud easily becomes another person’s surreptitious scheme to suppress minority voting rights.  Statistics offer plenty of fodder for disagreement, and disagreement …