Judge Rules Health Care Law Unconstitutional
PENSACOLA (CBS4) – Florida Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled the entire health care overhaul passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Barack Obama, unconstitutional Monday afternoon. For...
View ArticleNFL, Players Union Finish Court Ordered Talks
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The NFL and its locked-out players have wrapped up their court-ordered talks and they may not meet again for weeks. An attorney for the team owners, Jeff Pash, says a federal judge...
View ArticleFederal Judge Throws Out Fla. Gun Law
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A federal judge in Miami has sided with doctors in the Sunshine State over a controversial gun law. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke barred the enforcement of a law passed...
View ArticleConvicted Cuban Spy Renounces U.S. Citizenship, Will Stay In Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba (CBS4) – Unlike thousands of Cubans who visit the U.S, Interests Section in Havana hoping to leave the island, Rene Gonzalez showed up to the U.S. diplomatic mission Monday accompanied by...
View ArticleRubio Nixes Nomination Of Openly Gay Judge
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Senator Marco Rubio withdrew his support for Judge William Thomas’ nomination Tuesday to the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida despite having backed the...
View ArticleMiami Judge Won’t Dismiss Medicaid Lawsuit
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – A Miami federal judge, on Tuesday, refused to dismiss a Medicaid lawsuit filed a year ago. The lawsuit alleges the state is providing inadequate care to children in its Medicaid...
View ArticleSecond Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Prison In Ponzi Case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A second former Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy has been sentenced to prison for falsely arresting a woman as part of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme operated by a disbarred...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Florida To Make Voting Rights Changes
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) — Voting rights are something to be taken very seriously. A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Florida to devise a new way to decide when...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Reopening Of DACA, After 90-Day Delay
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (CBSMiami/CNN) – The dreamers’ dream isn’t dead yet. Another federal judge has overruled the Trump administration’s efforts to end a popular...
View Article7 Sent To Prison In Florida For Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — What goes around, comes around. Seven people have been sentenced to prison terms after pleading guilty in Florida to orchestrating a...
View ArticleFederal Judge Dismisses Class-Action Lawsuit On Red Light Cameras
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA) – Following the lead of the Florida Supreme Court, a federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit that...
View ArticleFederal Judge Rules Against State On Campus Early Voting
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA) — Calling it a “ham-handed” effort to keep young voters from casting ballots, a federal judge Tuesday struck down...
View ArticleFlorida Goes Along With Early Voting Ruling
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA) — Secretary of State Ken Detzner has told a federal judge the state will comply with an order that struck down a...
View ArticleFederal Judge Arrested In Miami-Dade
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A federal judge is under arrest after an alleged domestic dispute in Miami-Dade County. And he spoke out for several minutes at his first...
View ArticleJudge Extends Halt On Deportations Of Separated Families
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children...
View ArticleJudge To Weigh Spanish-Language Ballot Dispute
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A federal judge Wednesday will hear arguments in a lawsuit seeking to require 32 Florida counties to provide Spanish-language...
View ArticleFederal Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CNN) – A federal judge in Texas said on Friday that the Affordable Care Act’s individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law...
View ArticleJudge: US Violated Victim Rights In Epstein Sex Abuse Case
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami/AP) — A federal judge is saying that prosecutors broke the law and violated the rights of victims when they signed a plea agreement...
View ArticleTrial Delayed For Chinese Woman Who Trespassed At Mar-a-Lago
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami/AP) — A federal judge delayed the trial of a Chinese woman charged with trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents. During a...
View ArticleFederal Judge Weighs Arguments In Florida Cancer Treatment Fight
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A federal judge has given both sides until Wednesday to submit briefs in a legal battle over a new state law challenged by a major cancer-treatment firm. After an all-day...
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