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11 - Florida and South Dakota

Unsuccessful Efforts to Extend the Missouri Plan

from Part III - Unsuccessful Change Efforts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2020

Herbert M. Kritzer
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota School of Law
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Summary

The voters in both Florida and South Dakota approved the adoption of a Missouri Plan system for appellate courts, Florida in the 1970s and South Dakota in 1980. Voters in both states later rejected extending the system to trial courts. The adoption of the Missouri Plan for Florida’s appellate courts in 1976 came in the wake of a series of scandals involving the justices of the Florida Supreme Court. Two years later and then again 22 years later, Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission put the question of whether to extend the Missouri Plan to the trial courts before the voters, who then rejected the proposed change. The impetus for change in selection/retention of South Dakota’s Supreme Court justices appears to have come largely from the state bar. In 1980, the voters approved a Missouri Plan system for the South Dakota Supreme Court and did not divide along party lines. In the early 2000s, a proposal to extend the system to the trial courts was presented to the voters, who rejected the proposal.

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Judicial Selection in the States
Politics and the Struggle for Reform
, pp. 241 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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