Category: Issues
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NSU to pay $5.5 million to settle class-action suit over unsterile dental tools used on hundreds of patients, mostly children
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Nova Southeastern University will pay $5.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that arose after NSU disclosed that student dentists training in orthodontics failed to properly sterilize equipment used on patients, according to a Broward judge’s final order. -
America’s drinking water is surprisingly easy to poison
By Peter Elkind and Jack Gillum
ProPublica
On Feb. 16, less than two weeks after a mysterious attacker made headlines around the world by hacking a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, and nearly generating a mass poisoning, the city’s mayor declared victory. -
Lake Worth Beach gentrification purge now targeting low-income seniors in mobile home park
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Two years after Lake Worth Beach code enforcers targeted poor migrant workers in a mobile home community, the city is now coming after another trailer park filled with low-income senior citizens. -
Next chapter in a ‘he said/she said/they said’ nude photo drama of a judge
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
It could be a telenovela plotline, except it’s straight out of new court documents in a high-stakes contest over an upcoming Palm Beach County trial. -
Bergeron vs Waste Management trial nears; focus on legitimacy of $525-million recycling deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years of complaints, amended complaints, and seemingly endless hearings, motions and incremental judicial orders later, the epic legal struggle between Waste Management and competitor Ron Bergeron is finally set for a non-jury trial later this year. -
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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic.
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