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WASHINGTON - Mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are revoking thousands of foreclosure cases from a Florida law firm under investigation for falsifying documents used to complete foreclosures. Both companies say they have started transferring those documents from the Law Offices of David Stern to other firms.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) announced that the last of three politically-motivated lawsuits filed against the group in the wake of its successful 2004 voter outreach drive has been "dismissed with prejudice." Each of the three cases (two in Florida and one in Ohio) were brought by partisan law firms based on unfounded allegations of "voter fraud" against the organization -- and all three cases have been dismissed. In 2004, ACORN ran the largest non-partisan voter outreach program and assisted more 1.1 million low and moderate income and minority voters nationwide in registering to vote, including 210,000 in Florida and 190,000 in Ohio.
... by the Supreme Court of Florida of all cases in which a death sentence has been imposed. 921.14...
Attorney Joseph North, the president of The North Law Firm, P.A., is opening an additional law office in Broward County, For the last 15 years, Joe North has handled injury cases on Florida's west coast in Fort Myers. Now, North's law firm is branching out to the east coast with an office in Plantation. The firm will continue to handle cases involving automobile accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall accidents, and on-the job injuries.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A federal court in Cleveland today blocked enforcement of an Ohio state law enacted earlier this year that would have imposed crippling requirements on voter registration groups. The plaintiffs, civic and religious organizations and voting rights groups that have been working in Ohio through many election cycles without government interference, say that the law had dramatically curtailed their efforts to help eligible voters get on the rolls. This is a win for democracy and, coming on the heels of the similar decision in Florida on Monday, the beginning of a national trend of courts rejecting unreasonable barriers to voter registration," stated Wendy Weiser, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Sch...
Introduction. I. Takings clause summary. A. Actual Taking or Physical Invasions of Private Property for Public Use. B. Regulatory Takings. C. Takings Principles Not Limited to Real Property. D. Takings Law Summary. II. Typical Sign Amortization Codes. III. Sign Amortization Takings Claims. A. Sign Amortization Takings Claims in the United States Supreme Court. B. Sign Amortization Takings Claims in the Florida Supreme Court, a Prototypical Approach. 1. The Florida Supreme Court has Rejected Takings Challenges to Typical Amortization Sign Codes. 2. The Breadth of the Florida Takings Challenge Decisions. 3. Florida Supreme Court Justification for the Sign Amortization Codes. 4. The Florida Supreme Court Reasonableness Test. 5. Unchallenged Precedent. 6. The Fifth (now Eleventh) Circuit ...
... investigates the current validity of these cases. . . The Supreme Court's 2004-2005 term ended wi...
... for the Middle District of Florida. . ... our decision from comparisons to analogous cases. Id. Accordingly, before we reach a decision on th...
... in Early Parens Patriae Environmental Cases C. The Modern Expansion of Parens Patriae D. The M... beaches in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida." (9) The oil spill "closed a third of the Gulf's ...
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