Steve Plunkett

March 06, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The death of a congregant who agreed to donate valuable Boca Raton land for a synagogue produces a lawsuit saying his son is pushing the city to lease the land for a parking lot.

By Steve Plunkett

11 minute read

June 24, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ronald Dresnick added the Miccosukee Indian tribe after the fact to a lawsuit that resulted in a jury award against two tribe members in a drunken-driving traffic death.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

June 13, 2013 | Law.com

Up to $50 million in bank accounts and property the federal government seized from Scott Rothstein should instead have gone to the bankruptcy trustee for his defunct law firm, the 11th Circuit ruled.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

October 01, 2012 | Daily Business Review

When two drunken friends are fighting outside a bar, neither has a duty to prevent a third drunken friend from hitting one of them in the head with a tomahawk, the 3rd DCA ruled.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

September 11, 2012 | Daily Business Review

A jury awards $2.2 million to a former CSX conductor who suffered a career-ending shoulder injury while throwing a switch at a Miami scrap metal yard.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

May 29, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Former Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Leesfield, special master in the legal malpractice lawsuit against former Miccosukee tribal lawyers Guy Lewis and Michael Tein, has shielded their depositions from the public.

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

January 17, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The 3rd DCA ordered Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch off another criminal case based on his opinions on fingerprint evidence.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

June 12, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Walgreen Co., the nation's largest pharmacy chain, will pay a record-setting $80 million in civil penalties for negligently allowing millions of oxycodone tablets and other prescription painkillers to be diverted to drug abusers and the black market.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

February 20, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The Haggard Law Firm will file a lawsuit against the Liberty City U-Gas station where a man was set on fire on Christmas Day.

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

March 07, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Couples seeking a divorce — even rich ones — need equal access to lawyers, the Third District Court of Appeal decided in the case of multimillionaire Leroy Schecter and his ex-wife.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read