Trials

Tea Party to Recount Votes in Allen West Congressional Loss

Download Porn in South Florida? You Might Be Getting Sued In Federal Court

Let's say yo. . . err . . . no, your friend, happened to illegally download some porn over the last year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it's gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely and they had just installed high-speed Wi-Fi in his condo building ... More >>

John Goodman's Lawyers Want a New Trial

Polo mogul John Goodman's lawyers want a new trial for their client, who was sentenced for DUI manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide after he ran a stop sign and killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson. The reason the lawyers are seeking a new trial: One of the jurors apparently wrote ... More >>

Anthony Caravella to Be Paid $7 Million by Cops Who Framed Him, Jury Says

Anthony Caravella spent 9,389 days in prison after he was convicted of the rape and murder of a Miramar woman. The jury in his civil lawsuit decided two of the four arresting officers are liable for framing Caravella who, they say, as a mentally challenged 15-year-old, was coerced into falsely conf ... More >>

West Palm Beach Man Indicted For Running Dungeons

A West Palm Beach man and four others have been indicted in Philadelphia for beating and locking several mentally disabled people in basement dungeons in three states for years at a time to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars of Social \Security benefits. The 196-count indictment accuses West Pa ... More >>

Edward Crisante Hung Himself in Jail; His Parents Are Suing Sheriff Lamberti

Edward Crisante, Jr. was, by his parents' account, struggling with depression at the age of 32 in July 2010. He was a Fort Lauderdale barber with multiple felony counts in his past, including many drug charges, but it was a traffic ticket that led him to his death. After failing to appear in co ... More >>

Former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo Arrested, Faces 200 Years in Prison (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 11:45: Documents show Santeramo allegedly steered BTU funds to the political campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Alex Sink.Original post, 10:59:Prosecutors announced last November that they were investigating Patrick Santeramo, who was then president of the Broward Teachers Union. Now, the ... More >>

Riviera Cop Michael Dodson Pleads Guilty to Firing a Gun While Drunk, Gets Probation

PBSODodson (left) pleaded guilty, while Schneider is awaiting trial.​Of the three Riviera Beach police officers charged in a corruption scandal two years ago, Sgt. Michael Dodson's case was the most bizarre. Early one morning in October 2009, following a retirement party for a fellow cop, Dod ... More >>

South Florida Environmental Groups Join Lawsuit Against National Park Service

Plaintiffs don't want the Everglades to look like this.​Several environmental groups, led by the Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed a lawsuit last week against the National Park Service, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Se ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Cops Face Life in Prison on a Gang of Charges; Two More Under Investigation

Broward Sheriff's OfficeBilly Koepke (left) and Brian Dodge​Two Fort Lauderdale cops were arrested around 8:30 p.m. yesterday, charged with 36 crimes between them that include a maximum possible sentence of life in prison plus more than 100 years each.Officers Brian Christopher Dodge and Billy Cha ... More >>

Tarvis Wilson Convicted of Shooting Boynton Beach Cop and Four Other Felonies

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeTarvis Wilson​Tarvis Wilson is going to prison for a while after a jury convicted him yesterday of shooting a Boynton Beach cop in the chest, as well as the crimes he committed before that, including trying to shoot other people and leading a police chase through ... More >>

Scott Rothstein Investors Set for Trial Against TD Bank; Rothstein's Pals Ordered to Appear

zazzle.com​Coquina investments, which claims it lost $37.7 million in Scott Rothstein's billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is slated to go to trial before a jury against TD Bank on October 24 in Miami.The lawsuit, which was filed in March 2010, alleges two Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ... More >>

Merick Lewin, State House Candidate, Was Lobbyist for 411-PAIN Clinic

Facebook.comMerick Lewin lobbied for his family's clinic.​Merick Lewin, the Davie state house candidate who said he did not want to be judged by his "familial relationships," was a registered lobbyist for his family's medical clinic last year.State records indicate Lewin lobbied for the Browa ... More >>

Lawsuit Pits Jewish Nursing Home Against Seventh-Day Adventist

adventistinfo.org.ukCan you sue your employer for not respecting the Black Sabbath?​The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a Jewish nursing home in Boca Raton for allegedly attempting to force a Seventh-day Adventist to work on the Sabbath.The EEOC says it has ... More >>

Disabled Davie Cop Says He's Being Denied Benefits, Lawsuit Claims

Kickstart Your Heart​A retired Davie police officer is suing his former employer and the town for more than 100 grand, claiming they schtupped him out of disability benefits after he had a heart attack on the job, according to a recently filed lawsuit.Michael Necolletos, an 11-year veteran of the ... More >>

Charged With Growing Pot, Man Claims Medicinal Marijuana Defense -- and Wins

Jeffrey Kennedy, with his wife, Sharon, says they've gone through "18 months of hell" since his arrest.​Prosecutors dropped criminal charges today against a Palm Beach County man who had claimed a medicinal marijuana defense in a case that could have sent him to prison for five years for growing p ... More >>

More School Board Investigation? Bring It On

Well, the state's Education Commissioner is sending an inspector general down to Broward County to look at the dysfunctional and corrupt embattled school board. Let's hope they find a way to clean house. Notter and JenJen bask in all their success​The state is involved thanks to the grand ... More >>

Exposed: Judy Stern Played Secret Role In Mayoral Election

For years, campaign operative and erstwhile politician Dan Lewis has claimed that his 2006 run against incumbent Jim Naugle for mayor of Fort Lauderdale was undermined by a conspiracy led by his nemesis, super-lobbyist Judy Stern. For years, Stern has said she had nothing to do with ... More >>

Bankruptcy Trustee: Rothstein Partner Adler Is Broke and Owes IRS

Instead of a big showdown in court with big-time witnesses like U.S. Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, Russell Adler and the bankruptcy attorneys representing his former law firm settled the clawback suit today with little fanfare. The Rothstein ... More >>

Did Riviera Cop's Alleged Forgeries Jeopardize Any Criminal Cases?

PBSOSchneider has pleaded not guilty to all charges.​One of the central questions in the criminal case against Riviera Beach Detective Lee Ann Schneider is whether her dozens of alleged forgeries on official documents jeopardized any of the cases she was handling. Was she acting maliciously, or ju ... More >>

Car Accident? Doctors and Lawyers in the 411-PAIN Network Will Line Their Pockets With Your Insurance Money

Jeff Greene Lawsuit Dismissed When Seniors Feared Counterclaim

Courtesy Greene campaignNo lawsuit for Jeff Greene.​Things are getting dramatic with a capital "middle school" between the Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene campaigns for the Democrat Senate nomination. This weekend, the he-said, he-said jumped from catty campaign emails to my cell phone, when I got w ... More >>

Suit: Polo Owner Was Falling Down Drunk Night of Fatal Crash

Lisa RabFlowers mark the site of the crash where Scott Wilson died.​John Goodman, the multimillionaire owner of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, was so drunk the night of a fatal car crash this February that he "fell down for no apparent reason,"  according to a lawsuit filed in Palm B ... More >>

Yelp.com Stands Accused of Acting Like a "Modern-Day Mafia"

As Fitzroy Salesman Trial Ends, Many Want to Know Who's Next

Orly Taitz, at the Head of the "Birther" Movement, Has Her Love Life Displayed in Court

At Florida Memorial University, Surviving Beatings, Gunshots, and Assaults Is Part of the Curriculum

New Trial to Begin in Boynton Beach Dogfighting Case

Construction Workers Admit They Installed a Stink Bomb with Chinese Drywall

The only way to hang Chinese drywall.It's something of a cliché by now to think of Florida developers as the bad guys. But as homeowners start blaming them for the defective Chinese drywall rotting their homes, it is literally the stench that has led them to contractors.Not the developer's stench, ... More >>

Got a Boat? Join Lawsuit vs. Giant Oil Companies

In the past couple of years, boat owners Erick Kelesceny, John Egizi, and Todd Jessup kept on filling up their boats' gas tanks like they always had, with unleaded fuel. What they didn't realize was that, since at least 2006, the big oil companies had been taking a chemical called methyl tertiary-bu ... More >>

Hurry to Get in on Tobacco Suit, Flight Attendant Aprons Ruin Beer Surprise, James Taylor to Dress Up

A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he bought were defec ... More >>

Politicians in Sunrise have plenty of mud to sling

Sam Zell Sued By Tribune Writers

The Muscle Men

Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation

A Seminole Moment

An Air Force specialist learns he can't bet on American justice at the Seminole Hard Rock

Blood Simple

A questionable DUI prosecution has attorneys kvetching in cyberspace.

Santana

All That I Am (Arista)

Deputy Down

One year later, questions remain about Deputy Todd Fatta's tragic death

Hollywood Blues

Cyndi Commella Ruiz was a good cop. Then she left the brotherhood of silence.

If Steve Had a Hammer

Reckless accusations have testy Broward Folk Club balladeers sashaying

A Screw Loose

Sein Lwin is a political expert. Medicine? Well, that's something else altogether.

One-Way Street

Popped for DUI? Smile. You've just fallen victim to the DHSMV's kangaroo court.

Mismatch

Slammed with hefty court-ordered judgments in the Northeast, matchmaker Helena Amram has found no peace in South Florida either

Crash Landing

Delta blew it when someone phoned in a bomb threat. Then the airline tried to cover it up.

Undercurrents

BSO detectives raid Trapeze II

If God Gives You Lemons, Make Millions

That's what numerous lawsuits claim the Toy Store Group has done. Much to the chagrin of their customers.

If God Gives You Lemons, Make Millions

That's what numerous lawsuits claim the Toy Store Group has done. Much to the chagrin of their customers.

Willie Gary's Sugar Daddies

Why is Stuart's revered black superlawyer, champion of the little guy, defending Big Sugar against its own workers? Money.

Condomania

Warring septuagenarians end up in court after an ugly incident involving an umbrella and mace

Excessive Farce

The Palm Beach County school police force is charged with protecting schoolchildren, not endangering its female officers