Court undeserving of criticism.

• Author: Little, Joseph W.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

While I am not averse to criticizing the Florida Supreme Court and its occasional punk decisions, the attack launched against the court by the authors of "After Olmstead ..." (December 2010) is unsound and unprincipled. The authors not only opine that the "reputation" of the Florida Supreme Court is held in low esteem but it also deems the court's reputation is "not looking any better after Olmstead."

Olmstead is a statutory construction decision and like all decisions of that nature is of uncertain outcome. For every tenet of statutory construction pointing in one direction, another may be found pointing the opposite way. So it was in Olmstead. Both majority and dissenting opinions are soundly presented; the difference is that more justices were persuaded by the prevailing tenet than by its opposite. The "After Olmstead"...