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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 papers say clinicians issued a discharge order Oct. 6 after deciding she no longer needed acute care. The hospital says it tried to work with her family and offered to help with transportation and identification.

The judge ordered Leapfrog to remove grades for five hospitals in the Palm Beach Health Network, which filed a lawsuit alleging misleading practices under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.

In a class-action lawsuit, the judge barred the state from terminating benefits of people for financial-eligibility reasons unless it provides "adequate notice."

In the latest battle over marijuana legalization, Smart & Safe Florida alleges in a lawsuit that Secretary of State Cord Byrd improperly directed county election supervisors to invalidate about 71,000 petitions.

The lawsuit challenges FDA decisions since 2000 that approved and loosened restrictions on abortion drugs like mifepristone, arguing that mail delivery of the drugs undermines state abortion laws.

The lawsuit filed by five Tenet hospitals accuses Leapfrog of publishing rankings with a “rigged” methodology and pressuring hospitals to pay for memberships, which the nonprofit denies. Both sides seek summary judgment.

Whistleblower lawsuits allege that Exactech covered up defects in knee implants while patient injuries mounted.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier cites health risks and potential conflicts with state abortion laws as the states ask to intervene in the high-profile FDA challenge.

An appeals court overturned a ruling that sided with the cable channel in a defamation lawsuit stemming from reports about deaths of children at a Palm Beach County hospital.

The Center for Biological Diversity says logging, urbanization and suppression of natural fire cycles have "destroyed and degraded the habitat" the species depends on.

The Center for Biological Diversity is legally challenging the EPA's decision to allow phosphogypsum in the construction project, citing a 1992 federal rule against doing so and cancer risks.