A federal appeals court on Wednesday halted the voting registration of thousands of Florida felons who cannot pay fines or fees, just weeks after a lower court threw out the state law mandating payment of all legal financial obligations before voting.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Pacific Premier Bancorp of refusing to pay a 1% fee, required by the CARES Act, to agents who secured loans under the paycheck protection program.
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Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in a closely watched federal voting rights trial that could add hundreds of thousands of felons to Florida’s voter rolls and potentially affect the 2020 presidential election.
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Attorneys for 17 plaintiffs with felony convictions continued to grill Florida election officials Tuesday over a hastily prepared policy to determine the voting eligibility of felons with outstanding fines, as a pivotal federal voting rights trial neared its end.
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Florida’s top advocate for expanding voting rights to felons understood eligibility may depend on paying restitution and fines, attorneys for the state argued Friday as a closely watched federal voting rights trial continued.
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Florida’s byzantine patchwork of record-keeping prevents felons from learning about outstanding fines and fees before registering to vote, county election officials and felons testified this week as a closely watched federal voting rights trial enters its fourth day.
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A federal trial began Monday over whether Florida can deny the right to vote for felons unable to pay court costs, restitution or fines.
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Airlines must be more transparent in pricing by including additional fees in ticket prices on their websites, the European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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A group of students filed a class action against Liberty University demanding a refund of dorm and parking fees after the private Christian college made the controversial decision last month to bring students and faculty back to campus during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tennessee argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to overturn an injunction requiring the state to give people indigency hearings before it can suspend their driver’s license for nonpayment of a traffic debt.
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A new government study shows Florida courts have a difficult job collecting fees and fines in criminal cases. Those failures now have a direct impact on the ability of ex-felons to vote in future elections after they serve their prison sentences.
Read moreA federal class action claims that Payless Car Rental, Dollar Rent a Car, Advantage Rent a Car, et al. charge a bogus $3.50 tax on cars rented at San Diego International Airport, falsely claiming the tax is required by the Port of San Diego.
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A federal judge said Monday she will issue a nationwide injunction to block a Trump administration rule that makes it harder for immigrants to qualify for waivers of the citizenship application fee.
Read moreCelebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti told a federal judge Thursday he should be first in line for money from Stormy Daniels’ settlement over the adult firm star’s arrest at an Ohio strip club last year because he is owed $2 million in unpaid legal fees and costs.
Read moreA bill to boost California’s state bar fee by 26 percent passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, albeit without “the more ambitious fee-scaling proposals” originally sought by the state bar’s trustees.
Read moreIs that a Teflon suit, Mr. Paxton? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges, and the prosecution suffered another setback Wednesday when the state’s highest criminal court effectively shredded three special prosecutors’ $199,000 bill for their pretrial work on the case.
Read morePushing back at the State Bar of California’s request to hike attorney dues by $430, the state auditor on Tuesday recommended the agency instead scale back a planned hiring spree and spread the increase out incrementally.
Read moreOn a cloudy Friday morning, a small group of activists met in the parking lot of a Florida state senator’s office grasping glossy placards and wearing buttons supporting a recent constitutional amendment restoring the voting rights of felons.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen sued the Trump Organization on Thursday, demanding that it reimburse his legal expenses from proceedings that have implicated Trump in possible criminal liability and certain longstanding embarrassment.
Read moreAfter prevailing in a copyright case, software giant Oracle USA was improperly awarded costs that went beyond those to which federal law entitles it, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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