The Florida Senate has approved American Laws for American Courts legislation which would prohibit Sharia and other foreign laws. The full senate voted voted 24 to 14 in favor of SB 386 titled Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases at the third reading during the Monday, April 28, 2014 session. This legislation, commonly known as “American Laws for American Courts”, would prohibit Florida courts from considering certain provisions of foreign laws, including Islamic Sharia law, if such provisions are inconsistent with the Florida and United States of America Constitutions. SB 386: Application of Foreign Law in Courts GENERAL BILL by Hays Application of Foreign Law in Courts; Defining the term “strong public policy”; prohibiting a court from enforcing certain choice of law or forum selection contractual provisions; requiring a court to review judgments and orders of foreign courts for comity before enforcing such orders or judgments; specifying judgments and orders of foreign courts that are not entitled to comity; providing that the attempt to apply the law of a foreign country is void under certain circumstances; prohibiting a trial court from dismissing an action on the grounds that a satisfactory remedy may be more conveniently sought in a foreign country; providing an exception, etc. Effective Date: On October 1, 2014 Last Action: 4/30/2014 Senate - Ordered enrolled -SJ 880 Location: Final Passage flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0386/BillText/er/HTML Here’s how they voted (totally on party lines): Joseph Abruzzo No Democrat Thad Altman Yes Republican Aaron Bean Yes Republican Lizbeth Benacquisto Yes Republican Rob Bradley Yes Republican Jeff Brandes Yes Republican Oscar , II Braynon No Democrat Dwight Bullard No Democrat Jeff Clemens No Democrat Charles S. Dean Sr. Yes Republican Nancy C. Detert Yes Republican Miguel Diaz de la Portilla Yes Republican Greg Evers Yes Republican Anitere Flores Yes Republican Don Gaetz Yes Republican Bill Galvano Yes Republican Rene Garcia Yes Republican Andy Gardiner Yes Republican Audrey Gibson No Democrat Denise Grimsley Yes Republican Alan Hays Yes Republican Dorothy L. Hukill Yes Republican Arthenia L. Joyner No Democrat Jack Latvala Republican Tom Lee Yes Republican John Legg Yes Republican Gwen Margolis No Democrat Bill Montford No Democrat Joe Negron Republican Garrett Richter Yes Republican Jeremy Ring No Democrat Maria Lorts Sachs No Democrat David Simmons Yes Republican Wilton Simpson Yes Republican Christopher L. Smith No Democrat Eleanor Sobel No Democrat Darren Soto No Democrat Kelli Stargel Yes Republican Geraldine F. Thompson No Democrat John Thrasher Yes Republican
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 04:05:56 +0000
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