John Jacob Lloyd | Legal Technologist

NOTABLE DECISIONS

Northern v. State, No. 2025-0295, 2026 FL 8687 (Fla. 6th DCA July 10, 2026): A motion for judgment of acquittal challenges the legal sufficiency of evidence, not its weight, and an appellate court cannot reweigh evidence or accept a party's preferred version of the facts. · Stewart v. Vindel, No. SC2024-0428, 2026 FL 8468 (Fla. July 9, 2026): Trial courts have discretionary authority under section 61.075 to award prejudgment interest as a remedy to achieve equity in distributing marital property, but such awards are not automatic entitlements and must be supported by facts or circumstances justifying the award. · Massaua v. Cervelli, No. 2024-2621, 2026 FL 8335 (Fla. 2d DCA July 8, 2026): A restaurant owner owes a duty of reasonable care to patrons to prevent an employee infected with a contagious disease from having contact with customers, triggered by constructive knowledge of any contagious disease, not a specific diagnosis. · Crawford v. State, No. 2024-2173, 2026 FL 8286 (Fla. 1st DCA July 8, 2026): The trial court did not err in excluding evidence regarding whether the Department had lawful charge of the minor, as any error was harmless given ample evidence of danger to the minor and the defendant's tampering conduct. · FLexlaw — full Notable Decisions archive → ·

I try cases in Florida and Texas and build the tools I need to accelerate modern legal practice. A seasoned complex commercial litigator and Founder of FLexlaw, a Florida-first legal research platform, I trained at DLA Piper before cofounding a Dallas boutique litigation firm and beginning to incorporate AI and other legal technologies into my daily workflows.

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