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JinkoSolar launches pilot production
A divided state Supreme Court ends a seven-month China-based company legal dispute over the governor’s right to appoint JACKSONVILLE says it is on schedule a 4th Judicial Circuit judge by not ruling. to operate Jacksonville
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factory at full capacity early next year. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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ith an opinion as evenly divided as an opinion could be, the state Supreme Court on Monday discharged its jurisdiction in the case of a Jacksonville attorney who challenged an appellate court’s ruling concerning the authority of Gov. Rick Scott to appoint the replacement for a judge who resigned from the 4th Judicial Circuit. The court’s split decision was the
end of a legal process that began seven months ago in Jacksonville. Concurring in the discharge of David P. Trotti v. Rick Scott were Chief Justice Charles Canady and Justices Jorge Labarga, Alan Lawson and Ricky Polston. Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince dissented. In rendering its decision to refrain from ruling on the case, the majority of the justices agreed that “after further consideration, we conclude that jurisdiction was improvidently granted” and
THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court of Florida, front row, from left, Justice Barbara Pariente, Chief Justice Charles Canady and Justice R. Fred Lewis. Back row: Justice Jorge Labarga, Justice Peggy Quince, Justice Ricky Polston and Justice Alan Lawson.
TROTTI V. SCOTT Concurring in the discharge: Canady, Labarga, Lawson and Polston. Dissenting: Lewis, Pariente and Quince
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JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. launched pilot production at its Westside solar-panel assembly plant as it prepares to reach full production and hire up to 200 employees. Chief Financial Officer Haiyun Cao said Monday during the China-based company’s third-quarter conference call with market analysts the Jacksonville facility, its first in the U.S., was on schedule and the company has started pilot operations. “A n d we expect to ramp up the factory to full capacity in early next Miao year,” Cao said, according to a transcript of the call by the Seeking Alpha financial analysis firm. JinkoSolar announced in March that when fully operational, it expected the Jacksonville factory will have the capacity to build 400 megawatts of solar modules annually, which would be more than 1 million solar panels a year. It said then that production was expected to begin later this year. “Jinko’s 2019 U.S. product growth is looking very healthy with big orders already secured,” said Gener Miao, vice president of global sales and marketing, durSEE MATHIS, PAGE 7
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