Category: Third District Court of Appeal
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New statewide bond scheme widely challenged as unconstitutional
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida’s tough new uniform bond schedule, which took effect Jan. 1, is already under “numerous’ constitutional challenges throughout the state, according to court papers filed in one such challenge in Miami-Dade.
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Ex-Everglades Foundation chief scientist Van Lent guilty of contempt, faces up to 1 year in county jail
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has found the Everglades Foundation’s former chief scientist Thomas Van Lent guilty of indirect criminal contempt for disobeying a court order and deleting from his computers “massive amounts of data” owned by the foundation.
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Sex, Trumpsters, and South Florida’s weirdest court case
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Paternity/child-support cases rarely make the news, if for no other reason than Florida’s law and courts envelop them in secrecy. But the law and the courts didn’t reckon with the likes of A.J. Delgado.
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Broward judge ignores tainted bank documents to justify foreclosures, watchdog report charges
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Broward Circuit Judge Andrea Gundersen, who runs the court’s foreclosure docket, often rules for banks and against homeowners even when the banks use sketchy documents, a consumer watchdog charges in a recent report.
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Miami judge warns big banks to stop playing cruel foreclosure games with people’s homes
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Beatrice Butchko is warning national banking giants and their counsel they’ll pay a hefty price if they commit fraud or violate due process or ethics rules to drive mortgage debtors out of their homes.