/florida?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Florida Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:14:37 +0000 /florida/articles/2379341?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379341 A Manhattan federal judge Wednesday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the trafficking case against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the government has not justified unsealing the materials and did not give Epstein's survivors sufficient notice before filing its request. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:17:23 +0000 /florida/articles/2379369?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379369 The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday ruled that an English professor who sued University of Florida officials for alleged free speech violations filed his appeal too late, saying he missed his deadline by eight days. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:56:10 +0000 /florida/articles/2379053?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379053 The co-founder of Character.AI has asked a Florida federal judge to toss certain claims in a suit alleging a teen's suicide was caused by a negligently designed artificial intelligence chatbot, saying he can't be sued individually in Florida because he's never done any business in the state. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:32:56 +0000 /florida/articles/2379375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379375 A special master in Delaware federal court has recommended sanctioning Envestnet for failing to properly preserve data from a piece of log management software as part of a suit, accusing it of scheming to steal rival fintech software company FinApps' trade secrets. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:03:51 +0000 /florida/articles/2379377?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379377 An Eleventh Circuit panel should rethink its split decision to hold a wholesale bakery liable for up to $15.6 million in payments to the union pension fund it withdrew from, the bakery argued Wednesday, saying the case is of great consequence for pension law interpretation and deserves a second look. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:15:30 +0000 /florida/articles/2378934?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378934 A yacht brokerage trade group urged a Florida federal court to reject a magistrate judge's recommendation freeing a professional liability insurer from covering the group in an antitrust class action, arguing that the magistrate judge misinterpreted a "standard setting" exclusion. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:10:13 +0000 /florida/articles/2354090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2354090 A Florida investor who admitted to cheating the Internal Revenue Service out of $7 million in taxes was sentenced Wednesday to probation after telling a federal judge he suffers from serious health issues, including Stage 4 kidney cancer and early-onset dementia. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:33:24 +0000 /florida/articles/2379233?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379233 A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday issued a split decision reviving a state court lawsuit brought by a gun retailer alleging state law preempts a city zoning ordinance allegedly meant to restrict firearm sales, ruling there's a fact issue that must be decided by a jury.  Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:11:52 +0000 /florida/articles/2379248?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379248 A Florida appeals court on Wednesday revived a hospice worker's disability discrimination suit, ruling that her claims are not time-barred because the Florida Commission on Human Relations has not yet officially given her notice about her claim that would conclude the administrative process. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:06:09 +0000 /florida/articles/2375763?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2375763 Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving Experian signal that federal appellate courts are recognizing clickwrap agreements' power in spite of their simplicity, and offer practical advice on how companies can sufficiently demonstrate notice and assent when attempting to enforce contractual terms, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:06:00 +0000 /florida/articles/2379372?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379372 The Eleventh Circuit said Wednesday that a federal law disarming medical cannabis users likely ran afoul of the Second Amendment because it was inconsistent with the nation's history of gun regulation. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:23:38 +0000 /florida/articles/2379286?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2379286 The Internal Revenue Service jettisoned any federal tax lien it claims to have against a man by filing an unsecured claim in his bankruptcy case, he told a Florida federal court Wednesday in response to the government's $28 million lawsuit against him. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:36:35 +0000 /florida/articles/2378980?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378980 Credova, a fintech firm specializing in buy-now, pay-later financing for firearms and outdoor recreational goods purchases, is no longer facing what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now says was a "politically motivated" investigation on its part, the firm's parent company announced Tuesday. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:30:09 +0000 /florida/articles/2378891?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378891 A magistrate in the Delaware Chancery Court has entered an order for contempt and sanctions, as well as a receivership, against private equity firm 777 Partners in its former chief financial officer's suit seeking advancement of legal fees in connection with a fraud investigation and multiple lawsuits related to the company's business. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:50:42 +0000 /florida/articles/2378877?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378877 The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday called out three states' apparent failures in enforcing licensing standards for commercial truck drivers following last week's deadly highway crash in Florida that left three people dead and instantly became a flash point for the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:21:28 +0000 /florida/articles/2378341?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378341 A co-founder of a laboratory accused of submitting $40 million in unnecessary COVID-19 and genetic testing claims to healthcare benefit programs was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday, after a Florida federal judge credited him for the extensive cooperation he provided the government before and during a trial against his co-defendants. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:04:48 +0000 /florida/articles/2378851?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378851 A Michigan federal judge has said a Lake Michigan marine transportation company accusing Lockheed Martin Corp. and the U.S. Navy of causing more than $8 million of damage to its facility while testing a naval vessel must pursue the litigation in the Middle District of Florida. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:43:17 +0000 /florida/articles/2378791?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378791 The Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that an underwater salvage outfit cannot recover payment for locating la Trinité, a French ship sunk off the coast of Florida in 1565, because the Sunken Military Craft Act blocks salvage rights without France's consent. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:21:48 +0000 /florida/articles/2378764?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378764 Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and 20 other state attorneys general are urgently asking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule an unregulated substance known as "designer Xanax" under the Controlled Substances Act, saying it is contributing to overdose deaths and posing a growing threat to public health. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:07:53 +0000 /florida/articles/2378318?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /florida/articles/2378318 Chinese agribusiness Joyvio Group Co. Ltd. is asking a Florida federal court to enforce a $217 million arbitral award it won following its nearly $1 billion purchase of a Chilean salmon farming business, after it emerged that the previous owners had deliberately inflated production capacity to drive up the price.