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U.S. Courts

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Florida Cop Dresses as Electric Company Worker to Snoop For Pot Without Warrant

    ​Florida cops, it seems, will do just about anything to find that marijuana plant growing in your closet. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether Miami police violated the Constitution by routinely sniffing around suspected grow houses with drug-smelling dogs without first getting a search ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Liberty City Seven Denied A New Trial Despite Juror Shenanigans

    photo by Tim ElfrinkNaudimar Herrera, who was cleared of charges in the Liberty City Seven case. His co-defendants' appeal was denied.​Next time someone argues that justice is the end result after a trip through American courts, here's the only rebuttal you need: "Liberty City Seven." The informan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Casey Anthony Verdict Justifies Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Claims Republican Leader Mitch McConnell

    ​Who knew the Casey Anthony verdict would have implications on the United States' interpretation of the Geneva Conventions? According to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the failure of a Florida jury to convict Anthony proves the need to try terrorist suspects at military tribunals outsid ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    Robaina promises thousands of jobs for Dade residents

    ​Who knew the Casey Anthony verdict would have implications on the United States' interpretation of the Geneva Conventions? According to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the failure of a Florida jury to convict Anthony proves the need to try terrorist suspects at military tribunals outsid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Florida's Death Penalty Laws Deemed Unconstitutional

    ​Florida's particular method of sentencing prisoners to death has been deemed unconstitutional by Miami U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez today. The decision will not immediately strike down the law and didn't find the death penalty in and of itself unconstitutional. Though, it will guarantee conv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Confederate License Plates? Ruling Might Mean They Could Be Coming to Florida

    ​A Federal Judge has ruled that Florida should have approved the request of a group looking to honor a group of rebels who waged war against the United States in the name of slavery. U.S. District Judge John Antoon II ruled the state's specialty license plate law unconstitution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Former Lee County Commissioner Vicki Lukis Is No Longer A Convicted Felon

    Vicki Lukis ​Fourteen years after New Times chronicled her free fall out of public office and into the slammer, Vicki Lukis has won her redemption. On Monday, federal Judge John Steele of the U.S. District Court in Lee County vacated her 1997 conviction on honest services fraud. Her case was a fas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Jack B. Thompson, Disbarred Porn & Video Game Opponent, Now Enrolled in Virtual Seminary

    wikimedia commonsJack B. Thompson​John "Jack" B. Thompson, the Coral Gables attorney disbarred in 2008 for -- among other things -- sending swastikas, gay porn, and pictures of gavel-wielding kangaroos to the state supreme court, is now changing careers.Thompson, who once scrapped with Miami rap g ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    2010 was not a good year for African Americans

    wikimedia commonsJack B. Thompson​John "Jack" B. Thompson, the Coral Gables attorney disbarred in 2008 for -- among other things -- sending swastikas, gay porn, and pictures of gavel-wielding kangaroos to the state supreme court, is now changing careers.Thompson, who once scrapped with Miami rap g ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    Elena Kagan helped 2 Live Crew and blacks, so confirm her already

    wikimedia commonsJack B. Thompson​John "Jack" B. Thompson, the Coral Gables attorney disbarred in 2008 for -- among other things -- sending swastikas, gay porn, and pictures of gavel-wielding kangaroos to the state supreme court, is now changing careers.Thompson, who once scrapped with Miami rap g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Elena Kagan Will Make A Fine Supreme Court Justice

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes Elena Kagan's nomination to the highest court in the land. I'm happy to see that Barack Obama nominated El ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2010

    Supreme Court gives rapist Dewayne Pinacle another chance

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes Elena Kagan's nomination to the highest court in the land. I'm happy to see that Barack Obama nominated El ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Scott Rothstein's work as a Mafia informant might help him in his Ponzi case

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes Elena Kagan's nomination to the highest court in the land. I'm happy to see that Barack Obama nominated El ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Judge Approves Third Gay Adoption in South Florida Since 2008

    There's something wrong when ABC sitcoms are more progressive than Florida laws.​Another blow to Florida's gay adoption ban was served as the third adoption since 2008 by a gay parent was approved by a Miami-Dade judge. The ruling follows a decision by Monroe Circuit Judge David J. Audlin in Augus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Cuba Ordered to Pay $27.5 Million for Jailing Dissident Journalist

    Cuban dissident journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 27 years in prison simply for telling the truth. Today a U.S. federal judge ordered the government and communist party of Cuba to pay $27.5 million to Rodriguez Saludes's mother.    "During hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    United States Will Officially Have It's First Hispanic Justice

    Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate today. No big surprise there. Every member of the Democratic caucus, save for Ted Kennedy who remains ill and could not attend, voted for Sotomayor. That would include, of course, Bill Nelson.While only nine republicans offered their "yays," including ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Charlie Crist Finally Makes up His Mind About Sotomayor

    Charlie Crist had been awkwardly mum on whether he would support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Now that it's almost assured she'll get confirmed, he has finally decided to let everyone know that, no, he would not vote to confirm this lady. Here's his statement (via Nake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Mel Martinez Takes Pride in Sotomayor's "Historic Achievement"

    The Senate's lone Hispanic Republican, Florida's Mel Martinez, says he'll vote for the Supreme Court's first Hispanic nominee. Martinez is the second Republican senator to announce his intent to vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (Olympia Snowe quickly become the third after Martinez's announcement.)Here's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Al Franken Finally Wins, Karma Makes Up For 2000 Florida Election Fiasco

    via CPBlotterThe Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously declared Al Franken the winner of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race. Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty is widely expected to certify the results and send the SNL-alum to the highest legislative body in the land. The win will gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Where's Timoney Now? In D.C. Supporting Sotomayor

    We all know Miami Police Chief John Timoney likes to get out of town every chance he gets, so he couldn't pass up the opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden and talk up President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. "She's done all right for herself. She's the quintessential America ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Where's Timoney Now? Up in DC Supporting Sotomayor

    We all know Miami Police Chief John Timoney likes to get out of town every chance he gets, so he couldn't pass up a chance to meet Vice President Joe Biden and talk up President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. "She's done all right for herself. She's the quintessential American s ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2009

    Marco Rubio Takes a Swipe at Sonia Sotomayor

    Wing-nut Cuban-American criticizes first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    The Same People Who Brought You Amendment Two Gear Up For Gay Adoption Fight

    It's been a long time since we've heard from the folks at the Liberty Council, the religious right wing organization that played a huge role in Amendment Two -- the ban that threatens any recognition of homosexual commitment in Florida. Wonder what they're up to? Oh, doing everything in their power ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Florida Convict Isn't Joking This Time

     When death row inmate Michael Lambrix applied to be a Florida Supreme Court Justice in January, the nominating committee had a good laugh. "It's tongue-in-cheek," said Chair Robert Hackleman - and it probably was. (Lambrix wrote: "My biggest qualification...is that I'm the only applicant tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    One Lawyer's Fight to Change Guantanamo Bay -- At the Expense of His Career

    Maj. Tom Fleener was enjoying a quiet life as an assistant public defender in Wyoming when he was thrust into the greatest legal conundrum of our times.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsFleener, an Army Reservist, became more and more outraged as he read about the military commissions set up in Guantanamo B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    County's Crane Ordinance Deconstructed in Federal Court

    Today there was a minor crane accident on NE 79th street. The crane tipped, but no one was hurt. It was fitting as Miami-Dade's controversial crane ordinance was also tipped over this week in a federal court. The county passed the law in March of last year, the same month a much more serious crane a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Wait, So Registered Child Abusers Had More Adoption Rights Than Gays?

    Riptide was going to write you up a nice "The Florida Supreme Court for Dummies" post, but in its research found itself caught up in tangents. Our interest was spurred in part by yesterday's overturning of the gay adoption ban by a Miami judge (as well as by future Crist appointments). The issue wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Was it a Tall or a Venti?

    Riptide was going to write you up a nice "The Florida Supreme Court for Dummies" post, but in its research found itself caught up in tangents. Our interest was spurred in part by yesterday's overturning of the gay adoption ban by a Miami judge (as well as by future Crist appointments). The issue wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Jack Thompson, 2 Live Crew's Greatest Nemesis, Disbarred

    Riptide was going to write you up a nice "The Florida Supreme Court for Dummies" post, but in its research found itself caught up in tangents. Our interest was spurred in part by yesterday's overturning of the gay adoption ban by a Miami judge (as well as by future Crist appointments). The issue wil ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Blogger Rumpole Ruffles the Courts

    His blog Justice Building keeps judges on their toes.

  • News

    June 19, 2008

    Jack Thompson Don't Know Jack

    Why will the right-wing crusader likely lose his license? Swastikas are just the start.

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    Mock Trial

    Miami’s immigration judges are not interested in your problems

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Water Fight

    The Biscayne Aquifer is pristine no more

  • Best of Music

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LOCAL BAND OF ALL TIME

    2 Live Crew

  • City Life

    May 15, 2003

    BEST LOCAL GIRL MADE GOOD

    Cecilia Altonaga

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    In the Rough

    A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Speak Your Mind, Lose Your Job

    A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    News of the Weird

    A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    Bye-Bye, Baba

    A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Go Directly to Court

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • News

    January 2, 1997

    Juris Without Prudence

    What litigant is willing to take Madonna, the CIA, and Governor Chiles to court? It's Alfredo F. de Castro, Miami's one-man suit factory.

  • News

    September 21, 1995

    The Boulder Boys Must Die

    When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

  • News

    August 3, 1995

    The King Was Shot but Survived

    And now federal proescutors face a daunting challenge: Take down Raul Martinez once and for all

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Junkies

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    April 7, 1993

    Gorilla Warfare

    Vilified by animal protectionists, indicted for smuggling, praised by the feds. Matthew Block surprised everyone. Maybe even himself.

  • News

    December 16, 1992

    Keep It Coming!

    Coral Gables officials send taxpayers' money to the lawyers in wheelbarrows. Guess they really don't like pretty red news racks.

  • News

    July 15, 1992

    Coral Gables Officials to See Red

    A federal judge says yes to colorful newsracks

  • News

    February 12, 1992

    Falcon and Magluta

    A federal judge says yes to colorful newsracks

  • News

    January 1, 1992

    Break a Leg, Sweetheart!

    Two local producers say former theater king Zev Bufman also broke the law. Now all they've got to do is prove it.

  • News

    November 28, 1990

    There Ought to Be a Law

    Two local producers say former theater king Zev Bufman also broke the law. Now all they've got to do is prove it.

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