Philip Padovano
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Philip J. Padovano is a judge on the Florida First District Court of Appeal. [1] He was appointed to this position in 1996.
Biography
Philip Padovano was born on January 28, 1947 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He graduated from Florida State University in 1969 and went on to receive his law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1973. He is currently married and is a member of several Bar Committees.
Legal career
Philip Padovano worked as a private practice attorney from 1973 to 1988. After this, he became a Circuit Judge on the 2nd Florida Judicial Circuit. He was the Chief Judge of this court from 1993 until 1996, when he was appointed to the Court of Appeal.
Notable rulings
In October 2009, Padovano wrote a 26-page ruling which says that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) must release the documents it used in the course of deciding the sanctions it ultimately levied against Florida State University’s athletic department over a cheating scandal. The documents had been requested by several Florida newspapers. The NCAA argued that the documents were private because the NCAA is a private organization. Padovano, however, said the documents must be made public because “The appeal by the university is a matter of public concern. It is not tansformed into a private matter merely because the documents the university lawyers used to prepare the appeal reside on a computer owned by a private organization.”[2]
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