Miami-Dade School Board Wins First Amendment Ruling
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled in favor of the Miami-Dade County School Board in a suit brought by two administrators who claimed their First Amendment rights were violated.
Alberto Fernandez, principal, and Henny Cristobol, assistant principal, claimed they were demoted and disciplined for their efforts to turn the historic Neva King Campbell Educational... [...]
Miami-Dade Attorneys Trade Barbs in $11.4 Billion Bitcoin Lawsuit
Neither side is holding back in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit playing out in federal court in Miami-Dade. Their pleadings are relentless — 52 in the last five months — and riddled with barbs in what has become one of the most visible fights over bitcoin in the United States.
Now, it is up to U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom to decide whether the complaint will... [...]
Chicago Priests Caught Having Sex in Public on Ocean Drive
Beach Police say two men from Illinois — Diego Berrio, who is 39, and Edwin Giraldo Cortez, age 30 — were caught performing oral sex on each other in
a car parked along Ocean Drive, Miami Beach's busiest tourist road, around 3:20 p.m. Labor Day. Someone called 911 to report that two men were [engaging in sexual activity] on Miami Beach's most famous street, and when... [...]
Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed
New data from the Miami-Dade Police Department confirms the conclusions of a recent New Times investigation showing that thousands of South Floridians are needlessly arrested and saddled with criminal records for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The strategy is employed in a racially biased fashion and wastes tens of millions of taxpayer... [...]
A federal judge didn't fully buy prosecutors' argument that Dr. Andres Mencia, who specialized in geriatric care, deserved a more severe punishment for illegally prescribing addictive pain pills. The appropriate penalty, the judge ruled, was six and a half years in federal prison.
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com
Popular Broward Doctor's 'Pill Mill' Punishment is Much Less than Feds Sought
When a popular doctor went to trial this year on a... [...]
