A Florida resident filed a putative class action in federal court Thursday alleging that telecom provider CenturyLink Inc. is skirting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by "bombarding" people who are not its customers with unwanted autodialed ...read more
The Florida Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of a $37.5 million damages verdict for the tobacco company's role in the death of a 38-year-old woman who allegedly smoked the company's cigarettes since ...read more
A Marshall Islands-based ship owner has asked a Florida federal court to confirm an arbitral award it won against a trading company headquartered in the state, which was issued in a dispute stemming from the Florida firm’s alleged failure to timely ...read more
A Florida federal judge denied a request Friday to collect information regarding ongoing war crimes trials in Colombia, ruling the request from families of people murdered by right-wing Colombian paramilitaries was overbroad and not critical to their ...read more
A Florida federal judge on Friday directed the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Darden Restaurants Inc. to brief him on the significance if he finds that company documents the agency sought in an age discrimination suit concerning the ...read more
Comenity Bank urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to rethink reviving a suit accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by bombarding consumers with autodialed calls, saying the appeals court’s decision that the statute allows ...read more
United Overseas Bank has reportedly loaned $63.8 million for a Miami condo tower project, Yahoo is said to be subleasing more than 15,000 square feet in the Empire State Building and JMG Realty has reportedly bought a Florida apartment complex from UBS ...read more
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. agreed Friday to pay $605 million to exit multidistrict litigation over defective Takata Corp. air bags and to accelerate removal of the dangerous airbag inflators from 16.5 million affected Honda vehicles. ...read more
Sen. Bob Menendez and Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen may point to their long-standing friendship to fight corruption charges when their bribery trial starts on Wednesday, but the lavishness of the gifts the senator received from the doctor and ...read more
A citrus grove operator held partially liable for a subcontractor's scheme to steal wages from guest workers hired under the H-2A visa program has appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, arguing that the subcontractor had complete control over the workers' ...read more
Fresh off a notable victory in a trial over requirements for businesses' websites under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a blind Florida man has turned next to a Southwest Florida sports arena's alleged failure to make its website accessible ...read more
A federal jury on Thursday convicted former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor of wire fraud for misusing campaign funds in connection with two recent re-election campaigns. ...read more
A Florida federal judge on Thursday granted Panama's request to extradite former president Ricardo Martinelli who is facing charges back home that he conducted illegal surveillance and wiretapping and embezzled money. ...read more
A Florida magistrate judge on Thursday declined to exclude expert testimony provided by a group of models who claim a clothing-optional resort used their images without consent to advertise its “swinger lifestyle,” though he took issue with ...read more
The trustee overseeing the Florida bankruptcy cases involving luxury hotel group Aman Resorts, said Wednesday that a bid by Aman's chairman, a Russian real estate tycoon, to move the cases to New York appears to be an improper attempt to thwart her ...read more
Electrical weapon maker PhaZZer Electronics asked a Florida federal court Wednesday to stay enforcement of its orders granting sanctions and a permanent injunction in a trademark and patent infringement suit brought by rival TASER while it appeals the ...read more
Akelius Real Estate Management is said to have picked up two New York rental buildings for $100 million, Hoffmann Commercial Real Estate is reportedly paying $15 million for six Illinois buildings and has already bought two of those, and TA Realty is ...read more
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied a state attorney's challenge to the governor's unilateral reassignment of nearly 30 homicide cases after she refused to seek the death penalty in a high-profile murder case. ...read more
The range of possible and better fee agreements is wide. But such alternatives will become widely popular only if litigants confront the psychological tendencies shaping their existing fee arrangements, says J.B. Heaton, a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman ...read more
Alan Dershowitz narrowly avoided sanctions Wednesday as a Florida appeals court found that a woman who previously raised lurid accusations against the renowned attorney and his client Jeffrey Epstein did not meet the requirements to bring her bid in a ...read more
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday reversed a $13 million jury verdict in favor of a widow whose husband died of smoking-related lung cancer, ruling that a lower court erred by allowing several surgeon general's reports on cigarettes into evidence ...read more
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday overturned a jury verdict clearing a doctor accused of failing to diagnose a woman’s breast cancer, saying an error made by the trial judge allowed the doctor to present an argument that misled or confused ...read more
Two former Tenzer PLLC lawyers and high school buddies have formed boutique firm Reich Rodriguez PA in Miami, one of just a few women-owned firms specializing in international arbitration, an area that experts say is still heavily dominated by men. ...read more
A Florida car dealership group is sending unwanted texts to prospective customers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in federal court. ...read more
A Florida federal court on Tuesday granted in part investment bank German American Capital Corp.'s bid for sanctions against a real estate developer for failing to comply with discovery orders in a case claiming he hid assets to avoid repaying obligations ...read more