A defendant cruise line has filed motions seeking to disqualify a Miami plaintiffs firm from pursuing 75 pending claims by passengers and workers, contending that the Wingate Law Firm retained…
The laws have been stretched to cover the case of Jose Padilla, paving the way for precedents that could allow government overreaching in garden-variety criminal cases, a former New Jersey…
The use of assault weapons reportedly is surging in South Florida, as well as a few other areas, including Atlanta and parts of Texas near the Mexico border.
Bankruptcy judges are criticizing the business practices of Countrywide Financial, part of the legal headaches that Bank of America Corp. will be taking on when it acquires the troubled lender.
When the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 invalidated a $145 million punitive damages award in a class action case against the tobacco industry, it gave the plaintiffs a year to…
In an unusual move that has caught the attention of local South Florida residents, several field-workers have filed a federal lawsuit contending that the owner of the farm at which…
Five years ago, the Florida Bar reportedly OK’d attorney Bill Harrell’s use of the phrase “Don’t settle for less than you deserve” in his law firm advertising.
A onetime lawyer who was named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors in 2001 goes on trial today for the first of three alleged attacks on women he met…
Florida prosecutors are now deciding whether to charge as an adult a 12-year-old babysitter who has been accused of murdering a 17-month-old second cousin left in his care.
A real estate agent who created fake, ‘raunchy’ online escort ads on Craigslist.com in order to target a rival agent has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stalking.
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