Florida Heartland History 1 History Amtrak Silver Service to New York City! ! . Boca Raton Airport BCT Palm Beach Medium Hub. Main articles: Ordinance of Secession Confederate States of America and Florida in the American Civil War, Until the mid-20th century Florida was the least populous state in the southern United States in 1900 its population was only 528,542 of whom nearly 44% were African American the same proportion as before the Civil War the boll weevil devastated cotton crops, 1.3 Cuban and Latino influences I-395 Dolphin Expresswa ) 9 Transportation. .
Many beach towns are popular tourist destinations particularly during winter and spring break Twenty-three million tourists visited Florida beaches in 2000 spending $22 billion the public has a right to beach access under the public trust doctrine but some areas have access effectively blocked by private owners for a long distance. US 1, The paper won a landmark press freedom decision in Miami Herald Publishing Co v Tornillo (1974) in the case a political candidate Pat Tornillo Jr had requested that the Herald print his rebuttal to an editorial criticizing him citing Florida's "right-to-reply" law which mandated that newspapers print such responses Represented by longtime counsel Dan Paul the Herald challenged the law and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court the Court unanimously overturned the Florida statute under the Press Freedom Clause of the First Amendment ruling that "Governmental compulsion on a newspaper to publish that which 'reason' tells it should not be published is unconstitutional." the decision showed the limitations of a 1969 decision Red Lion Broadcasting Co v Federal Communications Commission in which a similar "Fairness Doctrine" had been upheld for radio and television and establishing that broadcast and print media had different Constitutional protections, Copa Airlines Panama City Carlos Albizu University (private)! . In March 1980 the first black Dade County schools superintendent Dr Johnny L Jones was convicted on grand theft charges linked to gold-plated plumbing His conviction was overturned on appeal and on July 3 1986 the state attorney Janet Reno announced that Jones would not be retried on these charges However in a separate case he was convicted on misdemeanor charges of soliciting perjury and witness tampering and received a two-year jail sentence, Restoration 4 Airlines and destinations Languages.
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