Category: Broward Courts
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When your neighbor is a hostile ex-cop, don’t count on your city for help
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Over the past 18 months, Thais Alvarez’s next-door neighbor hasn’t been so neighborly, she says. Lyle Bien blew leaves on her property, blasted bass heavy music for hours, called her a “fucking bitch” in front of a cop and, since moving out of the neighborhood in February, blocked her driveway on two occasions. -
Judge: Evidence shows Waste Management had ‘anti-competitive goals’ and ‘lack of business ethics’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward judge has ruled that Davie businessman Ron Bergeron can seek punitive damages against Waste Management and LGL Recycling, a company controlled by Palm Beach trash kingpin Anthony Lomangino, for allegedly conspiring to ruin his flourishing recycling business. -
Hostilities between First Baptist Church head pastor and dissident members escalate in Broward court
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The leadership of Fort Lauderdale’s oldest church is responding to a fresh legal challenge by disaffected members with evasion and delaying tactics. -
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Judge grants Cruz defense team right to film at crime scene as prosecutor Satz’s death penalty record becomes an issue
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Over prosecutors’ objections, Nikolas Cruz’s defense got the go-ahead Friday for a professional production company to film the “preserved” crime scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz admits he shot and killed 17 students and faculty and wounded 17 others more than three years ago. -
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Broward’s new state attorney says he’ll reimagine the top prosecutor’s job
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
When a young lawyer named Harold Fernandez Pryor Jr. trounced 20-year prosecutor Gregg Rossman to become Broward’s first African-American state attorney, many wondered: Harold who? Yet voters knew enough about Pryor, 34, to choose him for a four-year term as the chief legal enforcer in Florida’s second-most populous county. He oversees 462 employees, including 213 prosecutors, for an annual salary of $174,641. -
Sheriff Tony v ex-Sheriff Israel’s top brass in Broward court fight over unused sick time
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a little-noticed state court battle, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony is defending himself against several of his predecessor’s top brass. Tony has the advantage of using taxpayers’ dollars to defend his decision-making. So far, he’s losing.
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