There, he was a member of the Florida Law Review and Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

[2] King served in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1955 in the Judge Advocate General's Department as a first lieutenant.

He was in a private law practice in Miami from 1953 until 1964 when he became a member of the Florida Board of Regents.

[citation needed] In 1999 he ruled that relatives of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down by the Cuban Air Force could sue Cuba for wrongful death.

[citation needed] In 1989, King dismissed the filing of the Christic Institute in Avirgan v. Hull (932 F.2d 1572), the main civil litigation concerning the Iran–Contra affair.