After four years of litigation, a Florida newspaper and its columnist, Mike Freeman, have won a libel suit filed against them by pro golfer John Daly over a 2005 column…
More than 100 female prison workers have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections contending that they were routinely sexually harassed by inmates.
It was a time when courthouse metal detectors and bag searches were not yet commonplace. So when Thomas Provenzano walked into the Orange County Courthouse on Jan. 10, 1984, no…
When U.S. District Judge William Zloch recently learned last week that a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida had been doing Internet research, in violation of the…
A lawyer representing Hulk Hogan’s wife in a divorce managed to snare an autograph from the pro wrestler before a court hearing, but the truce quickly ended in a press…
Sometimes a reasonable attorney fee is no attorney fee, a federal judge said when attorney Rudy Barack sought attorney fees after winning $3,500 for a paralegal seeking overtime pay from…
The owner of a Florida dental technician business has sued Greenberg Traurig for malicious prosecution after the state supreme court sided with her in an eviction case.
Had a Florida bait and tackle shop covered up an offending fish painting with the U.S. flag, it could have avoided additional tickets under the Clearwater municipal sign ordinance.
Updated: At first, it was a painting of game fish on an exterior wall of a Florida bait and tackle shop that drew adverse attention from sign code enforcement…
A Miami broker who worked for the Texas billionaire accused in an $8 billion fraud says he was forced to resign in 2003 after he raised questions about the returns…
A Broward County, Fla., jury today awarded $8 million, including $5 million in punitive damages, to the widow and son of a chain smoker who died at age 55.
As President Barack Obama today announced a $75 billion federal mortgage bailout plan intended to help up to 9 million homeowners avert foreclosure, courts are already busy dealing with a…
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