By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jose Maria Herrera is making one last stand to save his career.
Three months after the Florida Supreme Court disbarred him for 10 years, the litigator is seeking a rehearing of his case based on the outcome of a separate Florida Bar complaint against fellow lawyer Ramon Rodriguez. Both men were accused of conspiring with one another and a third attorney to take down prominent ex-federal prosecutors Guy Lewis and Michael Tein.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Supreme Court is reviewing a souped-up version of the controversial “Stand Your Ground’’ law, and the court may use it to reopen thousands of criminal cases.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Two Miami lawyers sued a multi-million-dollar foundation to help hundreds of non-smoking flight attendants who’d been exposed to toxic secondhand tobacco smoke. They didn’t imagine they’d be punished for it seven years later.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Money from a $300 million fund meant to help flight attendants sickened by secondhand smoke has gone to research clean air for pets, a hospital in Israel and allies of the fund’s managers, according to court documents.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid the brouhaha over a controversial effort to place a $77-million museum honoring Cuban exiles on a swath of public waterfront land, some troubling details about one of the museum’s primary boosters has surfaced.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Laura Harris is not happy with how the Florida Bar handled her claim against a disbarred lawyer. She, her five siblings and their mother scraped together $38,000 to hire a Tallahassee lawyer and help their brother and son, Charles E. Bell, who is serving a life sentence in a Florida prison. It turned out the lawyer, Bernard Daley, made a career of ripping off people like Bell’s relatives.
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