When it comes to head injuries, Snyder notes, many different factors come into play. Nonetheless, the preliminary tallies strongly indicate at least some cause for concern. Some of these concerns arose at the recent Alzheimer’s Association …

In the midst of Florida’s housing crisis, some state lawmakers want to move legal notices of foreclosures from newspapers to the Internet, sparking a debate over access to information and charges of favoritism. Newspapers publish hundreds of thousands of small-type legal notices a year, which are required before a lender can foreclose on a home. The revenue is lucrative for business publications that depend heavily on legal ads. Supporters say the change is long overdue, as newspaper readership declines and more and more commerce is transacted electronically. Critics, largely newspapers, say Web-only notices would hurt the poor and elderly, who aren’t computer-savvy.
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Before the death of a band student, Florida A&M University band’s history of hazing was largely unknown to its fans, who know the Marching 100 for their show-stealing performances. However, instances of hazing date back decades. (Read Full Article Here)

The editorial states: “For several years now, the [bail bond] industry has lobbied lawmakers to place tight restrictions on successful pretrial release programs, only allowing the indigent out of jail for free while awaiting a court date. On Friday [today]. . .  the 12th Judicial Circuit Court will host a symposium with lawmakers, county commissioners, law enforcement and the legal community to highlight the success of pretrial release programs. Proposed legislation would force non-indigent defendants to either pay for a bond or remain behind bars — at great and unnecessary expense to taxpayers. . . . The system is not broken. This legislation should be rejected.” (Read Full Article Here)

Two years to the day that former lawyer Scott Rothstein was swept into federal custody, prosecutors issued on Thursday [Dec. 1] felony charges against his uncle and an office assistant. Rothstein’s uncle, William Boockvor of Deerfield Beach, is accused of taking an active role in deceiving Rothstein’s investors by falsifying bank account information to show his nephew had millions of dollars in his accounts. Boockvor was charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, punishable by up to five years in prison. Marybeth Feiss of Fort Lauderdale was charged with a single felony count of making illegal political contributions, also punishable by up to five years in prison. An administrative assistant for Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, she worked closely with Rothstein, helping him organize fundraisers for John McCain, former Gov. Charlie Crist and other politicians. (Read Full Article Here)

Prompted by proposed state regulations it says are inadequate, a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday [Dec. 1] filed an administrative challenge to the new rules set up to determine acceptable pollution levels in Florida waters. Earthjustice attorney David Guest said the group filed the challenge at the Division of Administrative Hearings in response to recently proposed state clean water standards that the lawsuit contends fall far short of Federal Clean Water Act requirements imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Joining Earthjustice in the challenge is the Florida Wildlife Federation, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Sierra Club, the Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida and St. Johns Riverkeepers. (Read Full Article Here)

The article is by The Associated Press. A Florida appeals court has upheld the right of cities to use cameras to catch and fine motorists who run red lights. The Miami-based Third District Court of Appeal ruling Wednesday [Nov. 30] affects only about two dozen cities that had red light camera ordinances in place before July 2010. That’s when a new state law went into effect allowing all cities to use cameras. The appeals court’s ruling could still be reviewed by the Florida Supreme Court. (Read Full Article Here)

A Naples defense attorney who contends Collier County DUI defendants don’t have the same rights as drivers in other counties was given the go-ahead Thursday to seek a subpoena so he can prove the state’s alcohol-testing machines are unreliable. Whether Donald Day and other Florida defense attorneys are entitled to computer source codes for the Intoxilyzer 8000 breath tester may ultimately end up in the state Supreme Court, affecting hundreds of DUI cases statewide. (Read Full Article Here)

On the last day Eloise Mudway was alive, she still worried about being mistreated. Mudway died at age 94 Wednesday [Nov. 30], broke and still mired in a legal battle with the couple convicted of stealing her home and draining her bank accounts. Joseph and Cynthia Clancy were arrested in 2005 on charges of tricking Mudway into signing over the deed to her New Port Richey home. Mudway also told investigators the Clancys, then her live-in caregivers, stole her dead husband’s diamond ring, fed her only bologna and pickle loaf sandwiches and made her do laundry for them.  The Clancys were convicted of grand theft of a person 65 or older and sentenced to 10 years in prison. A judge ordered the house be returned to Mudway, but the property is still tied up in a civil lawsuit winding its way through the court system. That prevented Mudway from living in the house or selling it to recoup some of her lost funds. (Read Full Article Here)

When Bobby Davis sent an anonymous e-mail to Syracuse University in 2005, saying that the associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine had molested him, the university asked its legal counsel to start an investigation. The subsequent decision by the university and its counsel — Bond, Schoeneck & King — not to contact the Onondaga County district attorney’s office and the Syracuse police department during its four-month investigation has drawn criticism from experts who handle sexual abuse cases. (Read Full Article Here)

Lawyers for the District of Columbia this month revealed that an unidentified police officer or city official attempted to destroy evidence in a long-running suit over arrests made during a demonstration at Pershing Park in 2002. The plaintiffs’ lawyers, representing a group of people who said they were arrested while observing the protest at the park, want the District to explain why the city waited more than ten weeks before disclosing the attempted destruction of the evidence at a hearing earlier this month. (Read Full Article Here)

As legal programs for the poor brace for a new round of potential budget cuts, directors of legal services said they’re facing painful choices, as they’re forced to make plans for scaling back their organizations to levels that existed in the 1990s. (Read Full Article Here)

The chairman of a new judicial pay commission has raised the possibility of incremental pay raises for New York judges — an idea that, if adopted, is considered unlikely to satisfy judges who have not had a raise since Jan. 1, 1999. (Read Full Article Here)