Category: Florida
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Florida’s troubled prison system wants to shut down lawyer-to-inmate phone calls that can reveal cruel and illegal conditions
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida prison officials want to change a rule to keep lawyers from talking to inmates who may need their help; the new rule would place inmates who could be defense witnesses completely out of earshot. -
Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady: Judge or politician in a black robe?
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Later this year Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady may be living with a state legislator, his wife Jennifer Canady, a Republican who is campaigning to represent Lakeland in the state House. If she wins, the court that her husband leads may someday pass judgment on a law she sponsored. -
State prosecutors decline to file any criminal charges against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two years after it began, a multi-faceted state investigation of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has ended without the filing of any criminal charges. -
Runup to 2022 elections: A court contest that’s really about thwarting the Big Lie
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A court challenge to Miami-Dade County’s election chief Christina White marks the early days of a rollicking Florida political season runup to the August primary and November general elections. -
Waging legal war to make Miami Springs comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly five years, the City of Miami Springs has refused to make sidewalks and public parking spaces near a 60-year-old disabled resident’s home wheelchair accessible. Instead, the city has engaged in a legal war with Theodore Karantsalis by claiming he waited too long in taking action against Miami Springs over making sidewalks and parking spaces accessible to the handicapped. -
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Will West Lake Park ever get a 911 radio tower? Site hasn’t even been vetted for ecology fallout
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Just when it seems some Hollywood residents have lost their battle to keep a 911 radio tower out of a treasured public park, other obstacles loom.
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