Saying that DuPont engaged in “a deliberate scheme to interfere” with the court’s rulings during more than a decade of litigation over damage allegedly done to Ecuadorian shrimp beds by…
Florida lawyer Jason Weisser has filed 13 class action lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of fines issued to car owners whose vehicles were caught running red lights by cameras posted at…
An Ohio teen caused a furor when she ran away to Florida, claiming that she was at risk of a so-called honor killing if she continued to live with her…
Updated: Wrestling star Hulk Hogan has sued two Florida attorneys, contending that they charged more than $1 million to defend his son in an auto accident case and related matters…
A former government attorney at the helm of Monroe County, Fla., legal matters has been resentenced after a federal appeals court said his original five-year probation term in a public…
A Florida law firm with a name apparently designed for phone book advertising has filed for bankruptcy, listing $1.5 million in debt to companies that publish yellow pages directories.
It is standard policy at many banks to require non-account-holders to provide a thumbprint when cashing a check drawn on a customer’s account. But what happens when the person seeking…
A Florida judge accused of telling a bank lawyer he couldn’t sit in his office “smoking his Cohiba cigars and drinking his lattes” while the court does it work has…
Potential jurors are increasingly citing fears that jury service could cause financial hardship, causing some court administrators to increase the number of people called to serve.
Holland & Knight is facing a malpractice suit filed on behalf of the court-appointed receiver trying to recover assets for investors who lost money to Sep 1, 2009 7:38 PM CDT
It almost had to happen, sooner or later: Among a growing number of employers and agencies surfing the Internet and accessing social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to look…
Hampered in its defense of a defamation suit by the death of its reporter, the St. Petersburg Times was hit with a libel judgment of more than $10 million on…
Florida’s wealthiest judge attributes her good fortune to a conservative spending style and a husband who is an admiralty partner in a Palm Beach law firm. And the state’s second…
A lawyer representing the state of Florida argued Wednesday that the state’s gay adoption ban is justified because gays have higher rates of domestic violence, psychiatric disorders and breakups.
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