Dara Kam

February 28, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Cooper & Kirk's Charles Cooper, one of the state's lawyers, asked the appellate court to continue preventing felons from voting while the appeal is underway.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

February 24, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Voting-rights groups challenged the law, arguing that hinging voting rights on felons' finances amounts to a modern-day "poll tax."

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

February 21, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Under current law, cities and counties cannot prohibit vacation rentals, or regulate the duration or frequency of the rentals. But local governments are allowed to license and inspect properties.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

February 19, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The complaints appear to be the first major actions taken by the state against doctors who order cannabis for patients they deem eligible for the treatment, which was broadly legalized in a 2016 constitutional amendment.

By Dara Kam

8 minute read

February 12, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration says that allowing felons to vote before the court resolves the legal battle would "inflict irreparable harm upon the state."

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

February 11, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Louis Del Favero Orchids Inc. had asked the appeals court to nix eight licenses, arguing, among other things, that the settlement was unfair and contrary to public policy because it "contravenes the legislative intent" of a 2017 law aimed at implementing a constitutional amendment that broadly legalizes medical marijuana in Florida.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

February 07, 2020 | Daily Business Review

CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens filed a third-party complaint against 500 "John and Jane Doe" doctors, alleging that the prescribing physicians — and not the drug stores — are to blame for faulty opioid prescriptions.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

January 23, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The National Rifle Association is challenging part of a sweeping school-safety law, passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 14 students and three faculty members. that raised the age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 18 to 21.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

January 23, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Clifford Williams and his nephew were wrongly convicted in the 1976 Jacksonville murder of a woman and the attempted murder of her girlfriend.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

January 22, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The revised rule is the latest move in a drawn-out legal and political battle over the restoration of rights in Florida, with critics accusing the state of refusing to let go of a process designed to keep black people from voting.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read