Category: Courts
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Palm Beach County judge’s nude photos case ends quietly after 5 ½ years with a right-before-trial settlement
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A settlement has ended South Florida telenovela-worthy litigation involving explicit photos of a female Palm Beach County judge, a well-known pair of male trial lawyers and a spiteful post-divorce row. -
Justice Renatha Francis’s former trial court colleagues still punishing litigant who called her out for trampling women’s rights
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A Loxahatchee woman remains trapped in Palm Beach County family court years after she defied Renatha Francis, who abruptly dropped the woman’s case before her promotion to the Florida Supreme Court. -
A client sued his deceased lawyer’s estate to collect a debt in Palm Beach Circuit Court. Then things got ugly
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A case that started four years ago as a straightforward debt collection against the family assets of a now-retired Palm Beach Circuit Court judge has morphed into a slugfest of allegations about trickery and bad faith on both sides. -
An appearance of impropriety: Mothers say Judge Shull tramples their rights to favor fathers
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Three mothers, parties in Judge Darren Shull’s family court, accuse him of taking this approach: Listen to the fathers, ignore the mothers’ conflicting evidence and rule for the men. -
Appellate judges signal they see no conflict in Darren Shull keeping a politically connected father’s child custody case
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Although state child welfare authorities are still looking into an incident that raises concerns about Judge Darren Shull’s impartiality, his appeals court supervisors seem bent on allowing him to continue making questionable calls unchecked. -
Consultant to DeSantis & Co. gets friendly rulings in his tough child custody case from a judge DeSantis appointed
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
David Custin, a political consultant whose Republican-heavy client list includes Gov. Ron DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, is racking up sympathetic rulings in his child custody case from a judge DeSantis appointed.
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