Polk Law Blog

Thanks to the News Chief for pointing out that the Florida Cabinet was meeting to discuss Legoland today. The Cabinet’s agenda and agenda packets are online. The packet for today’s meeting includes documents from the Internal Improvement Trust Fund with details on Legoland. (It starts on page 4.) Among the more interesting things revealed:

Welcome to Part II! For the lazy, here’s the summary: The law is different here in Florida than in other places, the school board was on questionable legal grounds, the Lakeland City Commission is probably OK but could use some improvement, and we have definitely not seen the last legal development on this issue.

So says a former professor of mine at George Washington University Law School, Orin Kerr (bio), in his post at the Volokh Conspiracy, a libertarian-leaning legal blog.

This is Part I. Part II has now been published. Many of my post  ideas come from issues covered by the local press and this is no exception. Relatively recently, the Ledger ran a fantastic article about prayer at government meetings in Polk County. The article focused primarily on the school board. The article includes [...]