Florida Courts

The major portion of the request --- more than $12.5 million --- is aimed at helping trial courts deal with a projected backlog of more than 990,000 cases due to COVID-19, the request says.

This post will be updated today, Tuesday, Oct. 20, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

Nearly all face-to-face state court proceedings will be suspended for at least two weeks, under an order issued Friday by Florida Supreme Court Chief…

A new tool has been rolled out across Florida’s entire court system that for the first time offers text and email alerts to people who want to track local…

More than two years after elderly residents died following Hurricane Irma, an appeals court next week will take up a battle about whether the state should…

After five years of stalled plans and proposals, Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday approved a development plan for a new civil courthouse downtown,…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in his element when he gave the opening speech last month at the national convention of the Federalist Society, the…

A divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against an anesthesiologist in a Miami-Dade County medical-malpractice case involving a woman who died...

Guests for Sundial Wednesday, Feb. 14 2018:Senior counsel for the Fair Elections Legal Network, Jon Sherman, represented the plaintiffs in the landmark…

New rules on how legal challenges to newly drawn legislative districts would work cleared their first hurdle in the Florida House on Wednesday after the…

Will convicted felons be allowed to vote again in Florida after completing their sentences?That is the subject of a proposed constitutional amendment that…

This week on The Florida Roundup...An investigation into Florida's sentencing system uncovers a racial bias in the courts. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune's…