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Let’s be friends? FL supreme court asked to decide whether lawyers and judges can be FB pals

By Karen Rubin on October 26, 2017

The Third District Florida court of appeals got some press this summer when it affirmed an order refusing to disqualify a judge who was Facebook friends with one of the lawyers in a case before her.  The court wrote that “a ‘friend’ on a social networking website is not necessarily a friend in the traditional…

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