Dara Kam - News Service of Florida

The decision could be important for a legal battle over a Florida law that prevents minors from receiving hormone therapy and puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria.

The Supreme Court decision rejected a series of arguments, including claims related to abuse Cole suffered as a teenager at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.

State elections officials are moving forward with an updated process aimed at providing more “certainty” for people to determine if they are eligible to vote.

The 6-1 ruling rejects arguments from the committee promoting the measure after months of legal wrangling. The revised financial statement will appear on the ballot with Amendment 4.

Nearly two dozen men, most of them elderly, peppered Attorney General Ashley Moody’s staff Monday with questions about a $20 million program that will compensate them for brutality they endured at the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and Okeechobee School in South Florida.

He responded to a report in The Independent Florida Alligator that he spent $17.3 million while president, including hiring several of his former U.S. Senate staffers, including two who were allowed to work remotely from the Washington, D.C., area.

The ruling likely will set off a flurry of appeals in the runup to the scheduled Aug. 29 execution of Loran Cole. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records show.

Loran Cole, 57, was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records show. Cole was 17 when he was sent to Dozier in 1984.

The lawsuit was brought by Katie Wood, a transgender teacher at Lennard High School in Hillsborough County, and AV Schwandes, a nonbinary teacher fired last year by Florida Virtual School.

A computer system serving as a backbone of the Department of Juvenile Justice was hacked in March, and many contractors providing services to at-risk and troubled youths remain unable to access the network.