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Daily Business Review

Developer Buys Land for $38.5M While Suing City

The Edwards Cos. buys land needed for its nine-acre Atlantic Crossing development, but the Ohio-based builder is still caught up in litigation with Delray Beach on project approval.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Nobody Knows Whether Your Landlord Can Stop You From Smoking Pot

In recent years, tenant demand for smoke-free living environments has led property managers to extend bans on cigarette smoking to cover marijuana. But some landlords worry that forbidding the use of medical marijuana might put them on the wrong side of fair housing law.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ashley Bell, 35

You can't put a label on Ashley Bell.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Quinnipiac Poll: Rubio in 'Driver's Seat' Now That He Seeks Re-Election

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has reversed course and will seek re-election to his seat, according to numerous media reports.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Top US Diplomat to Meet With Venezuela Officials Amid Crisis

A senior U.S. diplomat was in Venezuela on Tuesday to meet with officials to jump-start dialogue between the normally hostile governments as the socialist-run nation is torn apart by daily food protests and a campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Public-Records Racketeering Case

A federal appeals court rejected a class action lawsuit filed by a Palm Beach County town that alleges it has been inundated with public-records requests as part of a scheme to generate attorney fees and legal settlements.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

David Hickton Named The Legal's Attorney of the Year

U.S. Attorney David Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania was announced Tuesday night as The Legal's 2016 Attorney of the Year.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices Deal Blow to NRA, Gun Groups

As calls for more restrictive gun regulations grow in fervor and frequency around the country, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has struck down an act that allowed organizations such as the National Rifle Association to challenge local gun-control laws in court.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Water Bill Credits Voided for NYC Residences

Though "laudable" in purpose, an initiative by the de Blasio administration to give owners of one-, two- and three-family residences in New York City credits on their water bills was not legal, a state Supreme Court justice ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Open Trials Come to Mexico After Yearslong Justice Reforms

It would have seemed routine in many places: A defendant accused of illegally possessing a gun sat across a gleaming courtroom from the judge who accepted his guilty plea and would pronounce his sentence. For Mexico, though, it was a remarkable change from a century-old judicial system of paper-shuffling court cases in which defendants rarely actually testified before the judge ruling on their fate from within a cramped, bureaucrat's office. As of Saturday, the open, oral trial will be the norm nationwide as part of a sweeping judicial reform.
8 minute read

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