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NEW TAMPA, Fla. – A lawsuit filed against a business located in Hillsborough County alleges sexual harassment and unfair termination. Adib Nasr, 49, owns the Acropolis Greek Taverna restaurant on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in New Tampa and his company is being sued by two…
Read More Allegedly Lewd Tampa Restaurant Owner Sued For Sex Harassment, Then Massive Theft
The Biden administration this week asked a judge to reject allegations that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has “dragged its feet” on a Florida proposal to import prescription drugs from Canada and has not properly complied with a public-records request. U.S. Department of Justice…
Read More Feds Push Back In Florida Drug Importation Case
As Florida Republicans added four U.S. House seats in Tuesday’s elections, a panel of federal judges refused to toss out a lawsuit that alleges a congressional redistricting plan is “intentionally racially discriminatory.” The plan, which Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature during an April…
Read More Judges Clear Way For Florida Redistricting Case
The state Agency for Health Care Administration and a Miami abortion clinic have reached a settlement over allegations that the clinic did not properly comply with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. Doctor’s Office for Women, Inc., which does business…
Read More State, Florida Abortion Clinic Reach Settlement
After a record number of manatee deaths last year, an environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the state is violating the Endangered Species Act because of septic tanks and sewage-treatment plants discharging into the Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County. The Indian…
Read More Lawsuit Targets Sewer Discharges In Florida Manatee Deaths
TAMPA, Fla. – An employee allegedly notified her employer that she was pregnant and through her doctor requested changes to her duties. The employer is accused of being uncooperative and causing the employee to miscarry. On November 3, Wala Hamden filed suit against Lincoln Property…
Read More Pregnant Woman Allegedly Loses Baby Due To Unreasonable Employer Demands
Heeding a legal blueprint laid out by an appellate judge, a Tampa-based orchid grower has filed a lawsuit accusing the Florida Department of Health of violating the state Constitution by delaying the issuance of nearly two-dozen medical marijuana licenses. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Leon…
Read More Florida Health Department Challenged On Pot Licenses
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – An appeals court Wednesday backed a former Polk County emergency medical technician and paramedic in a dispute about workers’ compensation insurance benefits related to post-traumatic stress disorder. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a ruling by…
Read More Court Sides With Former Polk County Paramedic On PTSD Benefits
An appeals court Wednesday rejected an attempt by employees of Ascension St. Vincent’s hospital to shield text messages from being disclosed in a medical-malpractice case against a former physician at the Jacksonville medical center. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal sided…
Read More Hospital Employees In Florida Face Turning Over Text Messages In Suit
Florida Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Scherer formally sentenced the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting’s perpetrator Nikolas Cruz to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole Wednesday. A jury recommended sentencing Cruz to life without the possibility of parole on Oct. 13, rather than unanimously voting for the…
Read More Parkland Florida Murderer Nikolas Cruz Sentenced To Life Without Parole