Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess
Florida has set up foreclosures-only courts to reduce the state’s huge backlog of cases, but borrowers’ lawyers are critical of the process. |
Jacksonville Lawyer Blogs Letters to Free American Prisoner in North Korea
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The fourth American in a year arrested for trespassing in North Korea returned to the U.S. Friday. Aijalon Gomes had been teaching English in South Korea for two years when he crossed the border and was arrested. |
Attorney Chris Chestnut named 'Best Advocate of the Year'
Gainesville lawyer Christopher Chestnut received the Best Advocate of the Year award as part of the first 40 Lawyers Under 40 Awards held recently in New Orleans.The awards were sponsored by the National Bar Association, a network of predominantly black attorneys and judges, and the nonprofit Impact organization of young black professionals, to recognize people in legal fields "who have achieved ... |
Teen found guilty of second-degree murder
Thrust into a heated confrontation, his only means of guaranteed protection a .25-caliber pistol tucked into his waistband, Dexter Newson had to make, as his lawyer put it Thursday, "a split-second decision" the day he killed Dorian Gaskin on a neighborhood street in Ocala from the passenger's seat of a vehicle. |
Board approves base charter school
The Arkansas Board of Education approved a building at Little Rock Air Force Base as the location for a new charter school. |
Troops, families glad to hear end to Iraq combat
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- President Obama called America's troops the "steel in our ship of state." Many of those men and women of steel — and the parents who helped... |
Shorstein's firm sues police in 2 shootings; city lawyer says he should be disqualified in one
Former State Attorney Harry Shorstein’s firm is suing Jacksonville police in two shootings, claiming officers violated the rights of an unarmed burglary suspect and a 7-year-old girl who saw her brother and stepmother shot. But City Hall lawyers contend Shorstein’s firm should be disqualified from one case because he was still in office when the shooting occurred. They have already moved to ... |
Ben Roethlisberger: Why He Doesn't Deserve a Shorter Suspension
Multiple sources are reporting today that Ben Roethlisberger wants his ban reduced. Big Ben's reps plan to approach Roger Goodell Thursday and ask for a reduction of his sentence by more than the minimum two games (it was set for six, with the possibility of four). But despite Big Ben's alleged good behavior, there are many who feel Ben still deserves at least four games. I'd take it a step ... |
New motions filed in case of JaxPort’s ex-chairman
Former Jacksonville Port Authority Chairman Tony Nelson told investigators he stole the identity of one company he helped get work at the port and didn’t disclose his business relationship with another company “because he knew it was illegal,” according to a recently revealed FBI report. But that “rambling” report, according to Nelson’s attorney, Curtis Fallgatter, mixes together four ... |
Amendments nixed from ballot
TALLAHASSEE -- In a striking rebuke to the Legislature, the state's highest court on Tuesday whacked three lawmaker-orchestrated amendments from the November ballot, including proposals asking voters to block parts of the federal health care law and to preserve legislators' ability to draw legislative districts in a certain way. |
