Due Process

Eugene Volokh | 5.8.2025 8:26 AM

From Adams v. Cox, decided last week by the Florida Court of Appeal (Judge John MacIver, joined by Judges Harvey Jay and Adrian Soud):

Cox petitioned for injunction for protection against dating violence, alleging that Adams had committed acts of violence against her and that she feared imminent future violence. In her petition, Cox described two incidents of past violence by Adams and claimed that she had recently received harassing phone calls and text messages from unknown numbers, which she believed were initiated by Adams….

At the hearing, Cox testified that Adams had physically attacked her two times during their relationship. Adams, in turn, denied ever harming Cox. Cox also testified that over the months preceding the hearing, she had been repeatedly called or texted by........

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