News Service Of Florida

November 28, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Attorneys for the state and a group of parents asked the Florida Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit challenging a program that helps pay for tens of thousands of children to attend private schools.

By Jim Saunders News Service of Florida

6 minute read

November 28, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The 11 candidates hoping to join the Florida Supreme Court present a stark contrast to Justice James E.C. Perry, who is stepping down after seven years on the court due to a constitutionally mandated retirement.

By Dara Kam News Service of Florida

14 minute read

November 28, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Little more than a week before businesses were slated to get hit with increased workers' compensation insurance rates, a Leon County circuit judge blocked the hike because of violations of Florida's Sunshine Law.

By Jim Saunders News Service of Florida

8 minute read

November 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The court split on two appeals challenging death sentences.

By News Service of Florida

4 minute read

November 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Third District Court of Appeal rules Verizon improperly reduced its payments to a quarter of the contract provisions.

By News Service of Florida

3 minute read

November 22, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In a highly unusual move, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga has ordered an investigation of a death penalty lawyer who has repeatedly missed critical deadlines, was involved in a capital case in which roach-infested boxes of documents were destroyed by rain and who is currently representing two inmates who are trying to fire her.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

13 minute read

November 21, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida has cut off incentive funding slated to go to one of the biotech centers lured to the state a decade ago because of failure to meet job-creation goals over three consecutive years.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

November 18, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court overturned death sentences and ordered life in prison for two inmates, ruling in one case that a convicted murderer who was not the triggerman should not have received a harsher sentence than his co-defendants.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

10 minute read

November 18, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Almost exactly five years after Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died of injuries suffered in a hazing incident, a state appeals court Friday upheld the manslaughter and hazing convictions of another former member of the school's "Marching 100" band.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

November 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Public defenders this week asked the Florida Supreme Court to at least temporarily block judges in Lee County from holding videoconference hearings in cases about whether mentally ill people should be involuntarily committed to treatment facilities.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

6 minute read