Dara Kam

February 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

With executions indefinitely on hold in Florida, lawmakers are hurriedly considering legislation to address a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the state's capital sentencing law as unconstitutional.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 06, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A House panel signed on a proposal that would overhaul the state's alimony laws by doing away with permanent alimony and creating a formula based on the length of marriage and the incomes of both spouses to determine payments.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

State corrections officials have hired Centurion of Florida LLC to take over prison health services for more than three-fourths of Florida's 100,000 inmates after Corizon Health walked away from a five-year, $1.2 billion contract three years early.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

February 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A House panel is slated to take up a death-penalty proposal, three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida's death-penalty system giving judges—not juries—the power to impose death sentences is unconstitutional.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

2 minute read

January 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A Florida Senate panel heard from prosecutors, judges, public defenders and experts about how to fix the death-penalty process after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's capital sentencing structure this month.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

January 28, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A group representing disabled inmates has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Florida prison officials of discriminating against prisoners who are deaf, blind or confined to wheelchairs, in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

January 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Florida's death-penalty sentencing structure is a "tectonic shift" that should be applied retroactively to all inmates on death row, lawyers for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed in February wrote in court documents.

By Dara Kam News Service of Florida

6 minute read

January 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Seminole Tribe's lawsuit against Florida over failed negotiations on a gambling deal is moving forward after a federal judge refused to toss the case.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

January 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Seminole Tribe's lawsuit against Florida over failed negotiations on a gambling deal is moving forward after a federal judge refused to toss the case.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

January 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

It's a sure bet that lawmakers won't sign off on a $3 billion agreement with the Seminole Tribe that Gov. Rick Scott handed over last month.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

4 minute read