Fort Lauderdale passes law outlawing many from feeding homelessFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -The city of Fort Lauderdale last week passed an ordinance that effectively outlaws several humanitarian groups from feeding the homeless in public with a penalty of up to 60 days in jail. The law kicked in Friday, setting up a potential showdown between those groups and police.Micah Harris is co-founder of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Project, which feeds the... [...]
Woman forced to travel 300 miles to abort dying fetusCOLUMBUS — An Ohio woman whose baby would have been stillborn was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago because no Ohio abortion clinic would do the procedure, she said.Sheva Guy, 23, a doctoral student from Cincinnati, said her daughter was diagnosed with a fatal spinal abnormality when she went to a hospital for her second-trimester ultrasound at about 22 weeks. She and her husband were... [...]
Attorneys Gain $9.6M Award Against GEICO for Bad Faith in Fatal CrashCase: James M. Harvey v. GEICO General Insurance
Case no.: 50-2013-CA-017284
Description: Bad faith
Filing date: Nov. 20, 2013
Verdict date: Oct. 23, 2015
Judge: Palm Beach Circuit Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo
Plaintiffs attorneys: Fred Cunningham and Greg Yaffa, Cunningham Whalen & Gaspari, Palm Beach Gardens
Defense attorneys: Richard Young, Pensacola, and Adam Duke... [...]
Illinois transgender student wins case(CNN) - A Chicago-area school district violated anti-discrimination laws by denying a transgender student full access to the girl's locker room, federal authorities said, the latest inquiry to side with students who feel discriminated against by school policies.The finding against Township High School District 211 concerns only one of numerous complaints of discrimination made by transgender students.In... [...]
Naples man in coma after E-cigarette explodes in his faceSOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A Naples man is in a medically-induced coma at a Miami hospital after an electronic cigarette exploded in his face.Twenty-one-year-old Evan Spahlinger was badly burned after the blast from the e-cigarette.Spahlinger's sister, Eva Richardson, said the explosion startled her. "I was laying in bed with my 2-year-old, and I heard an explosion," she said.... [...]
