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October 30, 2009 | Daily Business Review

While Auto Nation profits; Burger King, Office Depot slip in 3Q

Fort Lauderdale car retailer AutoNation created the federal "cash for clunkers" program for its swing to a third-quarter profit. Two other South Florida-based retailers - Burger King and Office Depot - suffered from big cutbacks in consumer spending.
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July 21, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Feds push state to provide court interpreters

The Justice Department is pushing state officials to provide interpreters for anyone who needs one in all court proceedings. Some officials say an era of budget cuts is not the time to expand services.
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February 23, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Former House Speaker Ray Sansom's lawyer says he couldn't get fair hearing

A lawyer for former House Speaker Ray Sansom said he wouldn't have gotten a fair shake from a select House committee that was to begin hearings Monday on an ethics complaint against the Destin Republican about 14 hours after he resigned.
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February 25, 2011 | Daily Business Review

House measure would trim Florida Supreme Court's power

The state House committee has passed measures to trim the rule-making power of the Florida Supreme Court.
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October 14, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Litigating exemptions under ILSA: From a waterfall to a trickle

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, 15 U.S.C. 1701 (ILSA) was designed to protect uninformed buyers from purchasing undeveloped home sites on mountain tops in Florida and on the oceanfront in Wyoming.
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May 04, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Ethical issues involving judges who Google?

The 2nd Circuit faced an unusual appeal in which a criminal defendant raised an intriguing question about the perspectives that a judge can properly bring to bear on the bench.
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August 21, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Banks use $1.77 trillion stockpile to double Treasury buying

The gap between U.S. bank deposits and loans is growing at the fastest pace in two years, providing lenders with more funds to buy bonds and temper the biggest sell-off in Treasurys since 2010.
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May 13, 2011 | Daily Business Review

4th DCA overturns medical device marketing firm's award citing speculative evidence

Most of a $1.4 million jury award was overturned in a breach of contract case after the 4th District Court of Appeal concluded the evidence jurors relied on to compensate a small Florida-based medical device marketing firm was too speculative.
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January 17, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Animal-testing company could be cash cow for private equity firm

Charles River Laboratories International, which rose last week on speculation it may put itself up for sale, has a free cash flow yield of 10 percent of its price.
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October 24, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Morgan Stanley, B Of A Join In Broker-Recruiting Truce

The owners of the world's largest brokerages say the days of paying big bonuses to lure each other's brokers and keep their own in place may be ending.
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