Death Row Inmate's Lawyers Make Case Before Fla. Supreme Court
Lawyers for a Florida death row inmate scheduled to be executed later this month will make their case to the state's highest court on Thursday.
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Lawyers for a Florida death row inmate scheduled to be executed later this month will make their case to the state's highest court on Thursday.
Who has the authority to set tuition rates at Florida's 12 public universities – the Legislature or the Board of Governors? On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this matter.
Should an illegal immigrant be able to practice law in Florida. That's the issue before the state's highest court in the case of Jose Godinez-Samperio who came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 9. He graduated from college, earned a law degree and passed the Florida Bar.
A lawsuit which accused the state of shortchanging Florida's public school system is moving forward.
The Florida Supreme Court sounded skeptical Friday as it considered a legal challenge to a 2011 law that forced public employees to help pay for their pensions.
Moving Florida's court system into the digital age, the state's highest court ordered on Thursday that pleadings and other documents be filed electronically.
The battle between the workload faced by Miami-Dade's Public Defender and his right to say "no" to some new cases hit Florida's Supreme Court today, and the our come could possibly change the way the poor get access to legal services.
The Florida Supreme Court has turned back a challenge to term limits for Broward County Commissioners saying term limits are constitutional.
The Florida Senate is breathing a collective sigh of relief Friday morning, after learning the Florida Supreme Court signed off on the Senate's revised re-districting plan. That means all Fl0rida Senate districts are now official, and candidates can file to run within them.
After months of debate, the Florida Supreme Court once again took up legislative redistricting Friday.
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of local term limits in Broward County, which would have an effect on term limits for a number of local commissions.
The issue of term limits for county commissioners in Broward and Sarasota will be taken up by the state's Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The state's highest court has unanimously rejected several arguments by serial killer David Gore attorneys who are trying to stop his execution this week.
A redrawn Florida Senate re-districting map is being sent to the state's highest court.
The well-organized Senate redistricting process that produced a bipartisan vote for the first draft of the chamber's map now appears to be fraying, with Republican infighting prompting the majority to delay a committee vote on the plan that was scheduled for Tuesday.
The Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee is going back to work Tuesday to create yet another new redistricting map.
Legislative aides are trying to draft a revision for the Florida Senate's redistricting map after the previous map was thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court.
The battle over a requirement that members of the Florida state employees pension fund pay a 3 percent contribution is far from over. The Florida Supreme Court will consider the ruling by a circuit court judge invalidating the contribution, bypassing the court of appeals.
Just hours before adjourning the 2012 session of the Florida legislature, lawmakers learned they will barely have time to go home and see the kids before heading back to Tallahassee, after Gov. Scott called a 15-day extraordinary session beginning Wednesday to deal with a redistricting plan rejected by the Florida Supreme Court.
The Florida Supreme Court issued a mixed ruling Friday over plans to redistrict the Florida House and Senate.
The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over redistricting maps the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has drawn for itself, less than two weeks before the March 9 deadline for the justices to rule.
State employees are getting an early Christmas present from Governor Rick Scott.
The U.S. Supreme Court may go to the dogs if the justices decide to hear a case from the state of Florida.
Charges against hundreds, if not thousands of drug offenders may be dropped thanks to a possible decision by the Florida Supreme Court.
A Florida appeals court decision which gave the state's legislature the authority to approve slot machines anywhere is being appealed to the Florida Supreme Court .
"The Defendant cannot be expected to, nor will he, comply with the order of not communicating with other inmates," wrote Israel Encinosa, Sabatino's attorney.
Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday.
Monarch Air Group is a private aviation company based in Fort Lauderdale
GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida warned in a campaign ad last week that President Trump's immigration enforcement policy has "gone too far."
The call came in around 6 a.m. Sunday.
"The Defendant cannot be expected to, nor will he, comply with the order of not communicating with other inmates," wrote Israel Encinosa, Sabatino's attorney.
Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday.
Monarch Air Group is a private aviation company based in Fort Lauderdale
GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida warned in a campaign ad last week that President Trump's immigration enforcement policy has "gone too far."
The call came in around 6 a.m. Sunday.
One Cuba resident said there is "no way to know" when power will be restored to the island nation.
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro has reappeared in public at a military event celebrating an army branch's anniversary.
Diario Las Américas, a Miami-based Spanish-language newspaper, reported Tuesday that Castro is seriously ill, citing a confidential source in Cuba close to his inner circle.
A sign referencing Cuba was visible in surveillance footage of a gas pump fire at a Bird Road Chevron station.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Many Venezuelan immigrants are shunning Florida and turning instead to communities in places like Utah.
Alex Saab, 54, was deported in May by Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez to the U.S.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge to toss their drug trafficking indictment on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country.
The deal involves developing 17 strategic oil fields in Venezuela, an undertaking that experts said could take years.
President Trump announced a deal to grant the U.S. control of more than 60 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves.
Families say months without court-ordered treatment can worsen psychiatric crises behind bars.
The Democrat says rapidly advancing technology requires Congress to act before safeguards fall behind.
A former Republican Congressman turned Democrat, Jolly is running as a moderate voice, arguing that it is time for change after decades of Republican rule in Tallahassee.
Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton, discusses winning his primary and what's next in the race.
Former prosecutors question why a grand jury found $10 million misappropriated but charged no one.
Nearly half of Americans with medical debt owe at least $2,000, forcing them to make tough choices, new research shows.
Affordable Care Act recipients in 30 states are set to receive the $500 checks starting in October. Here's why.
Employer health benefit costs are projected to see the steepest increase next year since 2003. That could mean higher deductions and out-of-pocket costs for workers.
Moderna and Merck announced study results that reflect a "landmark moment" in treatment for one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.
The notice from a U.S. government agency does not indicate in which stores the beef was sold.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Duncan Sheik died on Thursday night, his family said.
Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Lukas Graham and Finneas all released statements Tuesday on Instagram saying they were withdrawing from Ed Sheeran's tour.
Performer Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop tour after making on-stage statements that some found controversial.
Dubbed the "Designer to the Stars," Bob Mackie won nine Emmy Awards, a Tony Award and was nominated for three Oscars.
Stella Parton gives insight into her sister Dolly Parton's marriage, makeup habits and views on death in an exclusive CBS News interview.