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Orange County has gone to the Florida Supreme Court in a battle about a ballot measure aimed at rent control. The county last week filed a notice that is a first step in challenging an Oct. 27 decision by the 5th District Court of Appeal…
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Accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of an “attempt to legalize state-sponsored harassment,” immigrant-advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging an “unauthorized alien” relocation program approved by state lawmakers earlier this year. The lawsuit makes a series of allegations, including violations of constitutional due process and equal-protection…
Read More Florida Migrant Relocation Program Draws Another Legal Challenge
TAMPA, Fla. – Florida’s major battery recycler and lead smelter, has been sued for violating Florida’s Private Sector Whistleblower’s Act. The plaintiff is a former furnace operations employee who served as president of the company’s union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The suit follows…
Read More Tampa Whistleblower Suit Filed In Continuing Saga Of Envirofocus Technologies
An appeals court Wednesday ordered an evidentiary hearing in a case in which a Miami-Dade County woman was convicted of killing the former business partner of her late husband in 2008. A panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal backed a request by Janepsy…
Read More Appeals Court Orders Hearing For Florida Woman Convicted Of ‘Revenge Killing’
In one of a series of similar cases, a Broward County abortion clinic is fighting a $56,000 state fine stemming from allegations that it did not properly comply with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. East Cypress Women’s Center, Inc.…
Read More Florida Abortion Clinic Fights Waiting Period Fine
Andrew Warren, a twice-elected Hillsborough County state attorney suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis in August, took the stand Tuesday as he testified in a federal lawsuit aimed at getting his job back. Warren’s testimony came on the first day of a trial before U.S. District…
Read More State Attorney Suspended By Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Testifies In Bid To Get Job Back
Two top aides to Gov. Ron DeSantis were added as defendants Tuesday in a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from the DeSantis administration flying about 50 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September. An amended version of the lawsuit added DeSantis public-safety adviser Larry Keefe and…
Read More Florida Governor DeSantis Top Aides Added In Migrant Flight Lawsuit
In what could be a first-of-its-kind case in Florida, a former state correctional officer is asking an appeals court to overturn his dismissal for using medical marijuana. Samuel Velez Ortiz, who was a sergeant for the Florida Department of Corrections, was approved by a doctor…
Read More Former Florida Correctional Officer Asks Appeals Court To Overturn Medical Marijuana Dismissal
If you don’t think America is an overly litigious society, meet Amanda Ramirez. The South Florida woman recently sued one of America’s biggest food companies for false advertising. She’s demanding $5 million because she needs longer than 3½ minutes to heat up her microwavable macaroni…
Read More Florida Woman Sues Kraft For $5 Million Because Her Mac ‘N’ Cheese Took Too Long To Make
A judge has accepted a plea deal for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face. Austin Harrouff, 25, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder…
Read More Judge Accepts Plea Deal Of Florida Man Who Brutally Killed Neighbors, Chewed Man’s Face Off