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Three years after a mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led lawmakers to pass a major school-safety bill, an appeals court Thursday rejected a challenge to allowing armed “guardians” on campuses.
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Flags will be flown at half-staff Sunday in honor of those killed in the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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For the senior class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the fear and isolation of the pandemic were layered on top of an already traumatic few years in school. The students graduating this year were freshmen when 17 people were killed and 17 others were injured during the 2018 shooting at their school.
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Justices issued two orders declining to take up appeals filed by Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, parents of slain student Meadow Pollack, and Royer Borges and Emely Delfin, parents of seriously injured student Anthony Borges. As is common, the Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for the decisions.
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A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision that sided with a series of defendants, including Broward County, Superintendent of Schools Robert Runcie, former Sheriff Scott Israel and former school-resource officer Scot Peterson.
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A circuit judge is ordering the families of the Parkland victims to turn over their social media posts as part of multiple lawsuits against the Broward County School District.
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The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that state law places a $300,000 limit on how much the Broward County School Board can be forced to pay to families and victims in lawsuits filed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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The plaintiffs are relying in part on a provision in Florida law that prohibits people from possessing any firearm or other weapon, “including a razor blade or box cutter, except as authorized in support of school-sanctioned activities.”
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Prominent National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer is continuing a legal battle against a California attorney who sent graphic emails to her after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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A statewide panel created in response to the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County signed off Monday on a settlement in an open-government lawsuit.
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The trial of confessed gunman in the 2018 Parkland shooting will be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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A school safety-focused advocacy group has declared its support of Sheriff Gregory Tony in the contentious, and fast-approaching, race for Broward County…