Category: In The Courts

After a decade-long legal fight, a federal judge Friday ordered Florida to make changes to keep children with “complex” medical conditions out of nursing homes and help them receive care in their family homes or communities. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, siding with the U.S.…

Read More Judge Rules Against State Of Florida On Kids In Nursing Homes

An appeals court Thursday rejected an attempt by federal antitrust officials to block U.S. Sugar Corp. from buying another player in the sugar industry. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s decision that cleared the way for…

Read More Antitrust Arguments Rejected In Florida U.S. Sugar Deal

In one of a series of similar cases, a Miami-Dade County abortion clinic will pay $20,000 to the state to settle allegations that the clinic did not properly comply with a law that requires providing information to women at least 24 hours before abortions. The…

Read More Miami Abortion Clinic, State Of Florida Reach Settlement

A federal judge has refused to block two parts of a new Florida elections law that placed restrictions on voter-registration groups, while the state appealed an earlier ruling that said other changes in the law likely are unconstitutional. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on…

Read More Parts Of Florida Elections Law Get Go-Ahead From Federal Judge

Industry groups and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration have agreed to end a legal fight about part of last year’s state budget that could have opened Medicaid providers to litigation if they didn’t pay a $15 minimum wage to “direct care” workers. Attorneys…

Read More Medicaid $15 Hour Minimum Wage Case In Florida Dropped

After Florida lawmakers in 2022 reorganized the state’s appeals courts, House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, is pushing to consolidate circuit courts. A committee appointed by Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz will hold its first meeting Friday to begin looking at consolidation in…

Read More Florida Circuit Court Consolidation Eyed

The Florida Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear arguments on Sept. 7 in a case involving catastrophic injuries suffered by an 18-year-old woman after two Tallahassee bars served underage drinkers. The court said last year it would take up the case but did…

Read More Florida Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Catastrophic Injury Case Of Underage Drinking

The Florida Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear arguments on Sept. 8 in a case that could play a major role in the future of abortion rights in the state. The court issued an order scheduling a hearing in a challenge to a…

Read More Florida Supreme Court To Hear Abortion Case In September

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence in the 2013 murder of a man who was found shot in the head after being taken from his Volusia County apartment. The court, in a 5-1 opinion, rejected arguments by Death Row inmate Christian…

Read More Florida Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence In 2013 Murder

Saying the case “arises from Florida’s latest assault on the right to vote,” a federal judge Monday blocked parts of a new elections law challenged by voter registration groups. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, in a 58-page decision, issued a preliminary injunction against parts…

Read More Federal Judge Blocks Parts Of Florida Elections Law