Lawsuit

The three-judge court said it found ample evidence that Tom Van Lent intentionally violated an order not to delete computer files in a "scheme" to steal confidential information from the Everglades Foundation.

The court will hear arguments next month in a dispute about whether Florida lawmakers should be shielded from testifying in civil lawsuits.

The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers.

DeSantis last August issued an executive order suspending Worrell. Among other things, the order alleged that Worrell’s policies prevented or discouraged assistant state attorneys from seeking minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes and drug-trafficking offenses.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor and his appointees.

A widow is suing a cruise line, alleging that it let her husband's body decompose after he died of a heart attack. Marilyn Jones' husband, Robert Jones, died last August onboard the Celebrity Cruises ship Equinox.

Emilio Gonzalez, who served as Miami City Manager from 2018 to January 2020, was the first witness called in a federal trial involving a lawsuit brought by William Fuller and his business partner, Martin Pinilla.

Business owners Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla's 2018 federal lawsuit against Joe Carollo for alleged harassment has finally begun its jury trial, after years of appeals.

The lawsuit, filed by families in St. Johns, Alachua, Duval and Orange counties against Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and the state boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine, claims Florida’s prohibition against puberty-blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

Republican leaders are supporting the HB 837 legislation, which would change how civil claims and lawsuits are handled.

The Florida Senate could quickly pass a proposal that would require local governments to suspend enforcement of ordinances while lawsuits play out.

An administrative law judge has rejected challenges by two health-care groups to the way state Medicaid officials have carried out a requirement that “direct care” workers get paid a minimum of $15 an hour.