Jim Saunders News Service Of Florida

March 02, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Attorney General Ashley Moody's office has asked justices to reverse more than three decades of legal precedents and find that the privacy clause does not apply to abortion.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

March 01, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Florida lawmakers next week will start the annual 60-day legislative session. Here are 10 big issues to watch.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

February 27, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The plan (HB 837) comes after years of business groups calling Florida a "judicial hellhole" because of the frequency and costs of lawsuits.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida.

5 minute read

November 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review

On Tuesday, more than eight years after losing the primary to Republican Jay Fant by the narrowest of margins, Renner took the gavel as state House speaker—one of the most powerful positions in Florida.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

November 17, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Disputing that the measure violates the First Amendment, the state this week urged a federal appeals court to toss out an injunction against a new law that placed restrictions on how race-related issues can be addressed in workplace training.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

July 30, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The root of the clash is an amendment that the Constitution Revision Commission placed on the 1998 ballot that spelled out a duty for the state to provide a high-quality system of public schools.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 27, 2018 | Daily Business Review

State Farm contends the information is a trade secret and is exempt from disclosure under Florida's public-records laws.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 27, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A panel of the First District Court of Appeal overturned a lower-court decision that blocked Gov. Rick Scott from appointing a replacement for Judge Robert Foster of the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 24, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Public Service Commission filed a brief Monday urging the Supreme Court to uphold a decision that allows FPL to recover money from customers to deal with a saltwater plume that moved from a power-plant complex into nearby groundwater.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

1 minute read

July 19, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant for inmate Jose Antonio Jimenez, who was convicted in the October 1992 killing of 63-year-old Phyllis Minas, whose neighbors heard her shout, “Oh God! Oh my God!” during the attack, according to court documents.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

1 minute read