Florida attorney at odds with state bar over alleged 'personal attack' on Supreme Court
The attorney who successfully argued two landmark medical privacy cases said he got “a shot across the bow” from The Florida Bar after he wrote a letter to the Florida Bar News that criticized by name three Florida Supreme Court justices for their comments and written opinions in high profile abortion cases.
So George J. Felos of Dunedin returned fire with a public information request for the Bar's list of emails for licensed attorneys. He then directly sent the 1,260-word letter to the editor that its official house organ declined to publish to 77,000 Florida attorneys.
Felos is perhaps best known for representing Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a 'persistent vegetative state' who was the focus of the right-to-die debate before her passing in 2005.
Felos' letter expressed concerns about the politicization of the judiciary that he said has contributed to an increasing loss of faith among the public that the court is an independent, impartial decider of law. The Florida Bar News does not publish commentaries or opinion pieces but does accept letters.
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