Nov
12
Miami prosecutor wins award
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Gregorie has been named the country’s most outstanding federal prosecutor by the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys (We figure their membership rolls have spiked since George W. Bush has been in office), according to a story in the Miami Herald. Gregorie, who is prosecuting the Liberty City Seven, was the prosecutor who indicted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. [Link via Southern District Blog]
Nov
8
Wage-and-hour suits on the rise
Filed Under Miami-Dade, U.S. District Court | 1 Comment
Miami attorney Jared Beck has an interesting post on wage-and-hour lawsuits at his blog, Magic City Harvard Lawyer.
Beck wonders what is behind the increase in these suits. The Southern District of Florida now leads the nation in these suits, according to a Daily Business Review article cited in the blog post. Beck writes:
The bottom line is that in an overheated economy, regulatory compliance typically takes a back seat for businesses keen on rapidly seizing perceived opportunities and muscling out would-be competitors looking to get in on the action. “Overheated” surely describes the Florida real estate market in the past few years, and perhaps it describes the Florida economy more generally as well, but looking back a decade or two.
Nov
7
A Fort Lauderdale cosmetics company is suing Dreamworks Animation SKG and Paramount Pictures in U.S. District Court for trademark infringement, according to a story in the International Herald Tribune.
Beecueticals says it tradmarked the slogan “Give bees a chance,” which is used in the Bee Movie’s advertisements.
Entertainment attorney Elliot M. Zimmerman, who represents Beecueticals, said the movie’s use of the slogan has cost his client money.
“It’s his mark. They can’t use it,” Zimmerman said. “They damaged us and cost us some people who would have bought from us … It’s not right what they did.”
The animated film, which features the voice of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, opened in theaters last week.
Additional coverage in the Sun-Sentinel.
Nov
1
Bus drivers settle class-action suit
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Palm Beach County bus drivers will get $1.3 million to settle their federal class-action suit against the school district, according to a story in the Sun-Sentinel.
The suit claimed that the 900 drivers and attendants did not receive overtime, despite working more than 40 hours per week.
The drivers, who were represented by the Shavitz Law Group of Boca Raton, will get between $1,200 and $1,300 each.
Oct
24
Salvation Army’s death benefit challenged
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A West Palm Beach man is challenging his dead father’s decision to leave $106,000 to the Salvation Army, according to a story on Law.com.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court, the son of Richard Jose Belanger says that the money from a payable-upon-death account can not be paid to an entity or organization. The Florida Legislature intended for the accounts to be paid to individuals, said Richard Jason Belanger’s attorney John Cooney, who cited language in the statute that requires a beneficiary to be alive upon the account holder’s death.
Oct
16
Three jurors who read an anti-terrorism pamphlet that was found in the jury room were dismissed Tuesday from the trial of the so-called Liberty City Seven.
Though defense attorneys called for mistrial U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard opted to dismiss the two jurors and one alternate who admitted to reading the pamphlet, which had been handed out at the trial last week by Miami police officers.
The seven defendants are on trial for conspiring to blow up government buildings in support of the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
All but one of the defense attorneys called for a mistrial, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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