Adolfo Pesquera

June 27, 2012 | Daily Report Online

July 1 is the deadline for trial run on e-filing in civil courts, but for now, clerks must also maintain a paper system

By Adolfo Pesquera

6 minute read

July 27, 2012 | Daily Business Review

A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale upheld a Florida secretary of state's advisory opinion to keeping the Democratic primary closed to other voters in the state attorney's race.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

July 18, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Fed up with the tactics of the Miami-Dade state attorney's office and two circuit judges, the Third District Court of Appeal, on its own authority, vacated a defendant's life sentence without parole.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

August 23, 2013 | Daily Business Review

A Belle Glade teenager who was cleared as an accessory to murder in a store robbery cannot be tried on a related gun charge without creating double jeopardy, the Fourth District Court of Appeal said.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

April 03, 2013 | Law.com

A South Florida federal magistrate has reunited a boy with his Mexican father in a child abduction case where the Cuban mother fled to Miami. The father sought relief under the Hague Convention's Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction after the mother violated a Mexican custody order that required the child, now 7, to stay in Mexico unless both parents and the Mexican foreign relations office consent.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

May 24, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Miami attorneys successfully defended Roxy's Pub in West Palm Beach in a negligence lawsuit after a woman fell and died after jumping onto the bar's guardrail two stories above the street.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

December 16, 2011 | Daily Business Review

A group of personal injury protection lawyers is facing an uphill battle in trying to reverse a $3 million fee award to another group of lawyers brought in to help represent hundreds of health care providers.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

May 03, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Governor Rick Scott went against his own party and vetoed a bill to overhaul Florida's alimony law, blaming a section that would have allowed retroactive cuts in old divorces.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

March 29, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court upheld an oral modification to a contract between boxing promoter Don King and a development company that was trying to put together a commercial and residential project at the Mangonia Park jai alai fronton in 2004.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

October 14, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Greenberg Traurig attorneys in Fort Lauderdale helped lead a legal team working the $1.8 billion purchase of specialty chemicals company MacDermid Inc.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read