Dara Kam News Service Of Florida

November 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Moton Hopkins went from being one of the state's most-successful Black farmers to working odd jobs to support his family, after a devastating drought and discrimination by the federal government wiped out the Florida native's livelihood.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

July 17, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Attorneys representing the state argued there was no indication that college students would have voting rights abridged due to an advisory opinion under scrutiny in the federal lawsuit filed this year by the League of Women Voters and other plaintiffs.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 05, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal came in a lawsuit initiated by Orlando trial attorney John Morgan and others who maintain that a Florida law barring patients from smoking their treatment runs afoul of a 2016 constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 03, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Louis Del Favero Orchids is challenging the proposed rule, which is based on a law passed last year implementing a voter-approved constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

June 27, 2018 | Daily Business Review

In the unanimous decision, the court ordered the removal at 5 p.m. Monday of Judge Scott DuPont, who heard cases in Putnam and Flagler counties in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

June 13, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Lawyers for The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which incurred the wrath of Gov. Rick Scott after elderly residents died following Hurricane Irma last year, asked Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis to hold the department in contempt in a legal tangle over copies of death certificates.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

June 01, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Winter Park entrepreneur Chris King and former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine back an across-the-board legalization of pot in Florida, where voters two years ago overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

June 01, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Under the proposed rule, changes to the “standard” visitation schedule would be implemented on a prison-by-prison basis and would be based on a variety of factors, such as staffing shortages and the amount of contraband being sneaked into the institutions.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

May 22, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a previous federal court decision in the case, which has dragged on for more than a decade and was filed by Prison Legal News over a publication allowed in institutions in every other state but banned by Florida corrections officials.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

May 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The gun-rights group filed the appeal after U.S. District Judge Mark Walker decided that previous court rulings forced him to reject the request to keep the identity of “Jane Doe” private.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read