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A federal judge is expected to decide this week whether to block a new state law that would restrict the way certain race-related concepts can be taught in public schools and in workplace training. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker heard arguments Tuesday and promised…
Read More Judge Weighs Arguments On Florida Race-Related Instruction Law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up an appeal in the 1984 murder of a woman who met the killer in the parking lot of a Tallahassee, Florida shopping mall. Justices, as is common, did not explain their reasons for declining to…
Read More U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal For Florida Man In The Kidnapping, Murder Of Jeanne Bickner
Seven plastic surgeons are asking an appeals court to block a new state emergency rule that placed additional restrictions on procedures known as “Brazilian butt lifts.” The surgeons, who practice in Miami-Dade County, and the group Surgeons for Safety, Inc., filed the challenge Monday in…
Read More Florida Surgeons Challenge ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’ Restrictions
Reagan Reese The Supreme Court struck down a Maine education policy Tuesday that excluded religious schools from a private school tuition assistance program. In Carson v. Makin, the court ruled 6-3 against the program which excluded students attending religious K-12 schools from taxpayer-provided tuition assistance,…
Read More Supreme Court Strikes Down Voucher Program That Discriminated Against Religious Schools
Attorneys for the state are fighting an attempt to block a 15-week abortion limit that is slated to take effect July 1. Lawyers in Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office filed a 29-page document Monday urging Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper to reject a request…
Read More State Seeks To Clear Way For 15-Week Abortion Limit In Florida
Attorneys for the state and online-industry groups plan to go to the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle about a 2021 Florida law that would crack down on social-media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, according to new court filings. The filings effectively seek to…
Read More Florida Big Tech Law Fight Headed To Supreme Court
In February and March, The Free Press reported The Humane Society of Tampa Bay had been sued by Pawlicious Poochie Pet Rescue of St. Petersburg. At issue was the Humane Society’s possession and adoption of a former service dog named Diggity who was microchipped…
Read More In Search Of Diggity: Humane Society Of Tampa Bay Drops Case Against Pawlicious Poochie Pet Rescue
The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. was served with 3,881 lawsuits during the first four months of 2022, as its number of customers continued soaring. The average of 970 lawsuits a month was about 11.5 percent more than the average of 870 lawsuits a month…
Read More Florida Backed Property Insurer Sees 970 Lawsuits A Month
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a Death Row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three children in 1998 in Okaloosa County. Jeffrey Hutchinson was sentenced to death for killing the children and life in prison for killing his…
Read More Appeal Denied For Florida Death Row Inmate Who Murdered Woman And Her 3 Children
An appeals court Wednesday rejected attempts to block the release of information in a final report by a statewide grand jury formed to investigate school safety and other issues after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A three-judge panel of…
Read More Florida Court Rejects Challenges To Grand-Jury Report In Parkland School Shooting