Dara Kam

July 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A Tallahassee judge gave Florida officials more time to present their defense of a 2-year-old law requiring women to wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion, but seemed skeptical that the state would convince him to keep the law on the books.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

July 19, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court put a temporary block on a 2015 law requiring women to wait 24 hours before getting abortions, but a Tallahassee judge will hold a hearing on a request by opponents to find the law unconstitutional.

By Dara Kam

3 minute read

July 19, 2017 | Daily Business Review

It's clear gambling regulators weren't keen on a horse race between two aging nags on a dirt path, with the race launched by a red rag on a stick. But what's less clear is whether the regulators had the authority to punish a tiny North Florida horse track that ran the race.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

July 11, 2017 | Daily Business Review

In a move that could affect thousands of Florida inmates, attorneys representing disabled prisoners and the Department of Corrections have settled a lawsuit accusing the state of discriminating against prisoners who are deaf, blind or confined to wheelchairs.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

July 11, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A lawyer for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of hoodwinking him into agreeing to a delay in a U.S. Supreme Court review.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

July 06, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott and the Seminole Tribe have reached an agreement about the tribe's "exclusive" rights to offer banked card games such as blackjack, in a move that took the Legislature by surprise.

By Dara Kam

3 minute read

July 05, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Signaling a potential end to an 18-month hiatus for the state's embattled death penalty, Gov. Rick Scott rescheduled the execution date of convicted killer Mark James Asay for Aug. 27.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

June 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Florida health officials have laid out a new process to implement the voter-approved constitutional amendment broadly legalizing medical marijuana, as they attempt to meet deadlines included in the November ballot measure.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

June 12, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Six years after Florida lawmakers tried to stop doctors from asking patients about guns, health care providers have emerged victorious in a legal battle as the state did not appeal a federal court ruling striking down major parts of the 2011 law.

By Dara Kam

10 minute read

June 07, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Florida legislative leaders have struck a deal about carrying out a voter-approved constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana for patients with debilitating illnesses.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read