News Service Of Florida

August 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The dust settled only months ago on the once-a-decade project of redrawing Florida's congressional and legislative districts to account for population changes. But because of the lengthy legal battle that followed the Legislature's original efforts at drawing the lines, the beginning of the next redistricting process is less than five years away.

By Brandon Larrabee, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

August 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Fourteen parents whose children were retained in third grade after they "opted out" of Florida's standardized tests filed a lawsuit saying their rights were violated by confusing standards that rely too much on a single exam.

By Brandon Larrabee, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

August 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Amid continuing legal questions about Florida's death penalty system, a state appeals court rejected lower-court rulings that blocked prosecutors from seeking death sentences in four murder cases.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

August 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has filed a legal challenge against controversial new state water-quality standards, arguing they don't adequately take into account the amount of fish and other wildlife eaten by tribal members.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

August 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Three weeks after a state investigative panel accused him of making racist and sexist remarks, a Jacksonville circuit judge is flatly denying the accusations of inappropriate conduct.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

August 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case lets stand a lower court decision in favor of the high-powered real estate broker.

By News Service of Florida

3 minute read

August 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

An administrative law judge paved the way for another nursery to get a medical-marijuana license, striking a blow against the Florida Department of Health during a contentious hearing.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

9 minute read

August 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A state task force began an emotional debate about how to commemorate the victims of abuse and brutality at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and what to do with the unidentified remains of youths who died at the shuttered reform school.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger and Tom Urban, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

August 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A lawyer for death row inmate Terrance Phillips wants the Florida Supreme Court to order an investigation into allegations of racism involving the circuit judge who sentenced the Jacksonville man to death, including accusations that the judge once said blacks should "go back to Africa."

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

August 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida voters will be asked Aug. 30 to extend to commercial and industrial properties a renewable-energy tax break that residential property owners already enjoy.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

8 minute read