The client believes either the lawyer misled the client and wasted the fee money, or the
appellate court acted arbitrarily and capriciously, or both.
In Florida's state
appellate courts, motions for rehearing are governed by Fla.
Department investigators later found that the reasons cited for failing the Sotos were unjustified, and approved their Home Study - a reversal that county attorneys failed to mention to
appellate court justices ruling on the case.
Ginsburg, in her dissent, wrote that the
appellate court had acted correctly in evaluating the award for abuse of discretion.
The First District
Appellate Court of Illinois ruled that flight alone does not justify an investigative detention.
In addition, this Note argues that the Court properly permitted
appellate courts to exercise discretion through applying general rules of dismissal to specific, recurring situations in which pre-appeal flight is sufficiently connected to the appellate process.
