By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida | April 13, 2018
Challenges to the 2011 “preemption” law, which bans local governments from imposing gun restrictions tougher than those in state laws, are just one of the ways local officials are fighting for stricter regulations in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida | April 13, 2018
The state Constitution Revision Commission is expected next week to consider putting the proposal on the November ballot.
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida | April 12, 2018
A Tallahassee judge gave the OK to Tampa entrepreneur Joe Redner to grow his own pot to treat cancer, prompting state health officials to immediately appeal a decision that could open the door to more legal skirmishes over Florida's medical-marijuana regulations.
By Katheryn Tucker | April 11, 2018
A GPS was the smoking gun in a Wednesday decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.In a per curiam decision, a panel of…
By MP McQueen | April 11, 2018
The landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson 50 years ago. Marking the occasion, The National Law Journal asked Ajmel Quereshi, senior counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., to list five major milestones in the legal fight against housing discrimination.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 10, 2018
A lawyer accused of unethical conduct in the Flint water case called an attempt to oust him from his leadership appointment “nothing but a retaliatory smear campaign” and a “blatant money grab.”
By Katheryn Tucker | April 10, 2018
The commission selected 40 candidates out of the 211 who were nominated before the March 16 deadline.
By Katheryn Tucker | April 10, 2018
High-profile Georgia lawyers have thrown their weight behind an effort to overturn a decades-old conviction based on the recent discovery that prosecutors in a 1977 murder case allegedly kept African-Americans off the jury and kept track of them by noting the letter "N" beside their names.
By Staff | April 10, 2018
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, spoke with former South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs on “What it Means to Live in a Constitutional Democracy” at CUNY Law School.
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida | April 10, 2018
Howard Simon began his career fighting for voting rights, and he'll end more than four decades of civil-rights advocacy championing the same issue.
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