Partner J Cabou was quoted in “Fight Over Suspended Prosecutor Headed to Trial,” an article in Law.com,* regarding a federal judge's ruling to dismiss a lawsuit filed by suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, but also rejected the Democrat’s request for a preliminary injunction to block the suspension by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

J, an attorney for Warren, told Hinkle that Warren, “an elected official, has to be free to express himself on issues of public importance.”

J took issue with the evidence DeSantis cited in the executive order.

“They don’t say what the governor says they said,” J, an Arizona-based attorney, told the judge.

Hinkle told J that “one sentence” in the abortion statement “seems to say we’re not going to prosecute any abortion case,” but J said “there was never such a case referred to” Warren. J said “value statements” joined by Warren aren’t policies that he acted on. “Every case is evaluated on a case-by-case basis,” J said. “There’s no evidence to contradict this.

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