Reposted from Akerman
Last week, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami declared unconstitutional a 2012 Florida law intended to prevent foreign companies with ties to Cuba — or that are in any way related to a company that does business in Cuba — from being awarded contracts worth $1 million or more by state and local government agencies. The court ruled that the law violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and in doing so upheld an earlier injunction issued by the District Court for the Southern District of Florida that had barred the Florida State Department of Transportation from enforcing the provisions at issue. More…
