Florida Department of State v. Mona Mangat

Summary

The court affirmed the circuit court’s determination that the ballot summary for Amendment 9 was misleading because it used language about waiting lists, the doctor-patient relationship, and ineffective mandates that did not accurately explain the amendment’s legal effect. It further held that the court could not substitute the amendment’s full text for the Legislature’s defective summary, so the proposed amendment had to be removed from the ballot. Chief Justice Canady, dissenting, would have placed the full amendment text on the ballot, while Justice Pariente, concurring in result, would have left open whether a future legislative proposal could use the full text without an explanatory summary.