Courts

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.

The Florida resolution comes as Bayer seeks approval of a $7.25 billion class settlement in Missouri and weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that could determine whether the company can be shielded from failure-to-warn lawsuits.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said the patient was discharged Oct. 6 but refused to vacate her room for five months, so the hospital requested an injunction to force her out.

Court-ordered medical procedures are just one of the ways pregnant patients’ rights are restricted. The effort is rooted in the concept of fetal personhood — that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

A Florida woman says her own birth plan was overridden when a hospital sought legal intervention. The case was argued before a judge over Zoom – while she was in labor.

A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found the ban on cultivated meats doesn’t conflict with existing federal laws regulating poultry that is raised for human consumption.

The attorney denies allegations of impropriety, but they could reshape a turbulent next phase of the long-running case arising from Maya Kowalski's treatment at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.