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.
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Jacksonville, the new site for President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention, became the latest Florida municipality Monday to require the use of face masks in public as Covid-19 cases in the Sunshine State continue to climb.
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Florida’s cases of Covid-19 surged exponentially Friday, setting a new daily record and prompting officials to close bars across the state.
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The surge of new Covid-19 cases has forced once-optimistic governors to once again shutter economies, and Wall Street’s jitters have turned to real worries about the economic ramifications.
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As daily Covid-19 case counts climb ever higher in Florida, a Miami bioethics expert is warning that rosy political narratives, combined with a rush to return to normalcy, are stifling the Sunshine State’s ability to get the outbreak under control.
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The removal of a Confederate monument from a Florida town square did not violate the First Amendment rights of Southern heritage advocates, an 11th Circuit panel ruled Monday.
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The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Florida surpassed 100,000 on Monday, a concerning milestone as the state continues its march toward economic reopening.
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Florida’s Republican governor has before him a bill that would require public schools to study a white-on-black massacre in a town west of Orlando 100 years ago.
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The attorney for a man accused of plotting to shoot up a Florida mosque asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to throw out a related firearms conviction.
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A mother whose daughter was murdered asked 11th Circuit judges on Thursday to revive her lawsuit against medical examiners who kept most of the teen’s remains for years.
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An attorney for a former resort executive sentenced to 40 years in prison for a $300 million vacation rental scam asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to either reverse the judgment against him or grant him a new trial.
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With an eye toward ending a saga of preventable deaths from hepatitis C in Florida jails, inmates are fighting to preserve a court order that forces Sunshine State prisons to treat early stages of the disease.
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A Florida university asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to allow the school to reveal the name of an alleged rape victim to jurors during an upcoming Title IX discrimination trial.
Read moreHeavy rain dousing marchers failed to stop the seventh day of protests in Florida cities across the state as demonstrators decried the death of George Floyd.
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A Florida judge declined Thursday to order a fix for the state’s unemployment system woes, even as hundreds of thousands of residents continue to file claims each week.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida upheld the dismissal of a civil suit against a mental health facility that provided mental health services to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz between 2009 and 2016. The facility did not owe a legal duty to protect or warn students that attended the same school as one of its patients.
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Unemployed Floridians implored a circuit judge to order a fix for the state’s broken unemployment assistance system during an hours-long emergency injunction hearing Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge tossed out the majority of a Florida law on Sunday that denied poor felons the right to vote unless they paid all court fees and fines, allowing hundreds of thousands of state residents to register in time for Election Day in the fall.
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A deaf former Costco employee is challenging a judge’s decision to toss out a jury verdict that awarded her $775,000 on her disability discrimination claim against the popular supermarket chain.
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A class of Madonna fans sued the pop star in Florida court for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation, claiming they were unfairly denied “a truly special experience” when the singer canceled a December 2019 concert in Miami just before it was set to start.
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