Courts

In an interview, Maya Kowalski talks about her landmark legal victory against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The case had been profiled in a Netflix documentary.

The hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard approved a continuance until Dec. 13 because the state’s lead lawyer was diagnosed this weekend with pneumonia.

Attorneys for Floridians Protecting Freedom wrote that the meaning of “viability” in the context of abortion has long been understood. Attorney General Ashley Moody contents otherwise.

A federal judge will hear arguments in Jacksonville on a request for a preliminary injunction that would require Medicaid officials to reinstate coverage to people dropped during the "unwinding."

A state brief says the ballot summary of a proposed constitutional amendment is part of an “overall design to lay ticking time bombs" by abortion proponents intended to "hoodwink" voters.

In issuing the order, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that the “case will turn almost entirely on common issues” with common answers.

Attorneys for beneficiaries are asking for a preliminary injunction that would require reinstating coverage to people recently dropped from Medicaid and ending terminations until adequate information is provided.

In a torrent of lawsuits in Alachua County, patients accuse device maker Exactech of hiding knee and hip implant defects for years. The company denies the allegations.

The state appealed a federal judge's ruling about whether it was improperly institutionalizing children who often require 24/7 care and have needs such as ventilators, feeding tubes and breathing tubes.

The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction that would require reinstating coverage to people and ending additional terminations until adequate information is provided.

According to the lawsuit, filed in Hillsborough County, the state seeks civil penalties and an injunction to prevent Juul from “targeting children" and "deceiving consumers with respect to the nicotine concentration.”

The cause of death has yet to be determined, but the 14-year-old's family pointed to the Paqui One Chip Challenge popularized as a dare on social media as a contributing factor.