By: Jorge R. Delgado “Voter ID” laws, voter purges, early voting changes, and similar measures have become familiar terms in today’s news cycle.  One person’s initiative to stop voter fraud easily becomes another person’s surreptitious scheme to suppress minority voting rights.  Statistics offer plenty of fodder for disagreement, and disagreement …

This week, Michael S. Perse comments on the Third District Court of Appeals decision in Blue Star Palms, LLC v. LED Trust, LLC. The 3rd DCA granted Blue Star Palms and Blue Star Briar, LLC’s writ of certiorari, quashing Judge Langer’s order denying a motion to dissolve a writ of …

By Steve I. Silverman  Last month, Kluger Kaplan’s ESI Group began exploring the scope of Rule 54 as it applies to the taxing of ESI discovery costs, our previous blog post can be found here.  The takeaway was that 28 U.S.C. §1920(4) should be expanded to make specific provisions for …

  By Josh M. Rubens The Southeastern Regional Investor Fraud Summit was held last week at Miami-Dade College. The summit was organized by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other agencies in an effort to educate the South Florida public regarding investment fraud.  Given the prominence …

This week Jason R. Marks comments on the Third District Court of Appeals Decision in Murphy v. Murphy, which was handed down last week. Last week, the appellate court ruled that Judge Dennis Murphy must continue to pay monthly alimony payments to his ex-wife, despite the fact that the former wife …