An 11th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the termination of long-standing judicial protections for Miami’s homeless population, finding that the city had overhauled its homeless policing to the point where court oversight is no longer warranted.
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A group of homeless litigants fought in the 11th Circuit on Tuesday to reinstate a 20-year municipal settlement designed to protect Miami’s homeless population from harassment and systemic arrests.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit upheld a ruling against two Florida sex offenders who challenged Miami-Dade County residence restrictions that prohibit them from living within 2,500 feet of a school. The offenders had claimed the ordinance made them homeless and amounted to retroactive criminal punishment.
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Popular stand-up comedian and actor Hannibal Buress says he was wrongfully arrested in Miami in a federal lawsuit filed against the city on Friday.
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Lawmakers from Florida’s Covid-19 epicenter on Tuesday pitched plans to stem the spread of the virus, outlining a ramp-up in contact-tracing and a program to house residents with mild infections in hotel rooms.
Read moreMiami sued Miami-Dade County in state court for its “refusal to provide for adequate early voting sites in the city’s predominantly Hispanic-American neighborhoods.”
Read moreHospitals rapidly approached capacity across the Sunbelt, and the Miami area closed indoor dining at restaurants and gyms again because of the surging coronavirus Monday.
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The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Florida surpassed 200,000 on Monday, a troubling milestone that prompted a Miami-area mayor to reverse the march toward economic reopening.
Read moreA 65-year-old inmate seeks release from the South Bay Correctional Facility in Miami, claiming at least 68 fellow prisoners have tested positive for Covid-19 there.
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Inmates seeking stronger coronavirus protections at a Miami jail ran into a setback in the 11th Circuit, where a three-judge panel found Monday that the prisoners fell short of showing the jail was deliberately disregarding their wellbeing.
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An attorney for two Florida sex offenders asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit challenging residency restrictions in Miami-Dade County that effectively rendered them homeless.
Read moreA transportation workers union sued the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation & Public Works in Miami-Dade County Court, claiming “multiple county transport employees have tested positive for Covid-19,” and the county is not properly sanitizing buses or providing workers with protective gear.
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U.S. authorities have arrested a Mexican citizen they say was hired by a Russian government official to locate the vehicle of a U.S. government source in the Miami area and inform the Russian of its location.
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Threatening to derail the project, an environmental analysis found arsenic contamination more than double the legal limit at the site of David Beckham’s proposed $1 billion Major League Soccer complex in Miami.
Read moreA federal judge refused to grant summary judgment to the City of Miami and its police Officer Antonio Vicente Torres IV, who shot a man “ten times after (he) was incapacitated.”
Read moreReviving fair-housing claims, the 11th Circuit ruled that Miami plausibly alleged Wells Fargo’s discriminatory mortgage-lending practices injured the tax base, resulting in “a disproportionate and excessive number of defaults by black and Latino homebuyers.”
Read moreTwo months out from Guatemala’s presidential elections, one of the candidates was arrested Wednesday in Miami on charges of conspiring with the Sinaloa drug cartel to import tons of cocaine into the U.S. and assassinate political rivals in a bid to secure millions of dollars to finance his election.
Read moreThe man accused of sending pipe bombs through the mail to critics of President Donald Trump appeared in a Miami, Florida courtroom, as a overflow crowd gathered to witness the proceedings.
Read moreTaxi companies are striving in Miami to accomplish what their peers failed to accomplish in a sister court: convince a federal appellate panel that local governments’ disparate treatment of cabs and ride-sharing services like Uber is unconstitutional.
Read moreA U.S. jury on Tuesday found a former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for killings by security forces during 2003 unrest in the South American nation, awarding $10 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by Bolivians whose relatives were among the slain.
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