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Article: Suit seeks to allow judicial candidates to express opinions.
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- September 15, 2006
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A conservative, family values group has filed a federal lawsuit seeking declarative and injunctive relief to allow state judicial candidates to give their personal opinions on public issues.
The Florida Family Policy Council filed its case August 28 in the Northern District Court in Tallahassee. It seeks to prevent the Judicial Qualifications Commission from enforcing Canons 3E(1) and 3E(1)(f) of the Code of Judicial Conduct. Those require judges to recuse themselves from cases if they have expressed opinions that likely would make a litigant question their impartiality.
The suit also named as defendants The Florida Bar's five branch chief disciplinary ...