Dara Kam

April 06, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The five-day suspension of Administrative Law Judge John Van Laningham stemmed from two footnotes he included in a March 13 recommended order concerning improper "ex parte communications" in a case involving Calder Race Course Inc.

By Dara Kam

7 minute read

April 01, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Attorney General Ashley Moody asked a court to put the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence in the hands of a receiver after investigations revealed that the taxpayer-backed coalition paid its chief executive officer more than $7.2 million in compensation over a three-year period.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

March 31, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is under pressure to come up with a system to determine whether Floridians who register to vote are felons who have outstanding financial obligations and provide the information to local supervisors of elections, who have the authority to remove people from the voting rolls.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

March 30, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Former Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence CEO Tiffany Carr and a foundation that supports the organization are "nothing but kibitzers, seeking to insert their views into a matter that does not concern them," lawyers for Attorney General Ashley Moody wrote.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

March 30, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Senate formally removed former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel from office during an October special session, prompting Israel to file a federal lawsuit alleging the Senate process was unfair.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

March 27, 2020 | Daily Business Review

A lawyer for Secretary of State Laurel Lee told a federal judge that the state has not come up with an administrative process in which felons could try to prove that they are unable to pay financial obligations and should be able to vote.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

March 20, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis is replacing former Justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck, whom he appointed to the Supreme Court not long after he took office in January 2019.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

March 13, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The ruling in the case of Linda Pedroza is rooted in two seminal U.S. Supreme Court decisions that found life sentences for juveniles violate Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

March 12, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Reiyn Keohane was born a male but began identifying as female at age 8 and started wearing women's clothing, makeup and hairstyles at 14, according to court records.

By Dara Kam

7 minute read

March 11, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Clifford Williams, right, thanked his lawyers and other people who helped him while he was incarcerated and said he plans to go back to prison, this time to help the friends he left behind when he was released last March.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read