Three Florida Supreme Court justices are up for retention on the November ballot, and Sunshine State News is the only source that is examining their judicial record. In this latest installment, we explore a landmark ruling affecting workers' compensation claims.
A three-judge panel of the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal heard oral arguments Thursday afternoon in Democratic state Rep. Mack Bernards continued challenge of his narrow August primary election defeat.
As two of Florida's three Haitian-born legislators contest their primary election defeats through the courts, one of them is insisting his conflict isn't just with his opponent, but with the very leadership of his own Democratic Party.
Attorney Alan Orantes Forst spoke for many who attended Monday nights panel discussion hosted by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the nations premier fellowship for conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students.
Thank you to the Federalist Society for having a balanced panel with a diversity of opinions, an educational effort that did not cost us $300,000, he exclaimed. It may be the first time in state history that were having a discussion about this.
A Tallahassee police officer is the defendant in yet another civil suit, this one alleging that she "willful[ly] and malicious[ly]" violated the First Amendment rights of a local activist.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, says that Officer Annette Garrett used computers owned by the Tallahassee Police Department to delete unflattering information posted by city watchdog Robert Brayshaw on websites like scribd.com, slideshare.com, calameo.com, and Wikipedia.
Amendment 9 is one of a handful on the November ballot that enjoys widespread bipartisan support and very little vocal opposition, but critics are warning it will further complicate the tax code and drain much-needed tax revenues from local governments.
Amid reports that Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher sent out some 60,000 faulty absentee ballots, there's one question no one else seems to be asking -- and which Bucher hasn't mentioned: What did she know, and when did she know it?
The latest elections kerfuffle in a county that has seen more than half a dozen election irregularities since 2000, now involves 60,000 absentee ballots sent out -- all of them missing the proper headings for the merit-retention races of three controversial state Supreme Court justices.
Eight prominent lawmakers from around the Sunshine State announced Wednesday they were banding together to form the nucleus of a new Religious Freedom Caucus in the Florida Legislature.
The announcement was made via a press release by the American Religious Freedom Program (ARFP) of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. The release said caucuses had been launched in eight other states, and said plans were underway to establish one in each of the nations 50 state legislatures by the end of 2013.
After a two-hour informal back-and-forth in his chambers Monday, Judge John C. Cooper of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court of Florida denied motions by the Republican Party of Florida and two state senators to dismiss a lawsuit brought against them by disgraced former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer.
Greer resigned from the state party chairmanship in 2010 facing accusations of fraud and money laundering; he is currently facing criminal charges of having diverted some $300,000 from the party to his private company, Victory Strategies.
