Real estate and abortion have intersected in Florida’s highest court as a neighbor in a medical complex has attempted to use a restriction in the property’s deed to block Planned Parenthood from performing outpatient surgeries.
It was one of several idiosyncrasies in a case that relied on real estate documents to tackle one of the most controversial and charged social issues in politics, and divided Florida’s appellate courts for nearly three years. Another quirk: Newly appointed Florida Supreme Court Justice C. Alan Lawson recused himself because he had weighed in on the suit as the author of a Fifth District Court of Appeal decision before his rise to the Supreme Court in December.
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