Courts

Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes in Tallahassee wrote in a four-page ruling that those suing the state must first pursue their claim through a state administrative court.

Yusiel Lopez Insua pleaded guilty to seaman’s manslaughter. Officials say he was piloting a tugboat pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat. Three girls were trapped in the wreckage and drowned.

While demand for the program increases, the state waits on implentating an expansion already approved by the Legislature. Circuit court Judge Joshua Hawke did not say when he would make a ruling.

Judges handling the thousands of lawsuits from sick veterans and family members have ordered lawyers to hammer out a mass settlement plan by the end of October.

The now-retired Judge Steven Leifman said he envisioned a place that could divert people away from the ninth floor of a detention center into a facility where they would receive individualized treatment.

The judge had sided with five Tenet-owned South Florida hospitals, ruling Leapfrog could no longer automatically assign the lowest scores to facilities that declined to participate in voluntary surveys.

The judge ruled that Franco was criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor but was a victim of extortion by the minor's mother, who was sentenced to 10 years for trafficking her daughter.

Miami residents have sued the president, Miami Dade College and Florida officials, claiming the donation violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause.

Officials are investigating OpenAI after linking ChatGPT use to the accused FSU shooter and off-campus slayings of two USF students. But can an AI company be held responsible for how its chatbot is used?

Members of the House Ethics Committee are weighing what punishment to recommend after they found Cherfilus-McCormick committed 25 violations of House rules and ethical standards.

It's been two months since the state dropped a suit against the federal government that was supposedly delaying the changes that would open health coverage to more than 42,000 children. Why? That's a mystery.

The health department notified the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that it would not renew five of its contracts to test and treat people with HIV and stop the spread of the sexually transmitted infections.