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1 week ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
President Donald Trump appointed five judges in the Sunshine State to serve on the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida—pending Senate approval. And that includes hometown jurist Ed Artau, a judge on Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal, who has been nominated to the bench of the Southern District of Florida.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
Florida's Third District of Appeal upheld Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Lisa Walsh's order disqualifying plaintiff’s attorney Tim Taylor for representing defendant Taras S. Diakiwski's surety in a related dispute.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of film producer John Middleton’s defamation suit against The Hollywood Reporter, journalist Gary Baum and his former colleague and friend Roy Lee, holding that under Florida's borrowing statute, California's one-year statute of limitations applied.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
A referee has recommended in his report to the Supreme Court of Florida to dismiss ethics charges against an attorney, finding that the trial lawyer was likely suffering from COVID-related delirium when he violated a judicial order and made misleading statements to the court. "This case should never have happened," James A. Yancey, the referee in the respondent Clayton Studstill's case, concluded in his report.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
A woman filed a suit in the Miami-Dade Circuit Court against Marriott International and the contractor Clearview Building Services, alleging that she suffered a deeply invasive and traumatic incident while staying at the St. Regis Bal Harbour in Miami Beach. On Dec.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
The Third District Court of Appeal in Florida affirmed the trial court’s findings in the lengthy six-year litigation battle between Miami-based general contractor Mutchnik Construction Group and Moscato, and Brazilian billionaire Jose Seripieri Filho. The case centered on a $13 million luxury condo renovation project on exclusive Fisher Island. And the appellate court’s decision confirms Mutchnik’s right to collect over $1.3 million.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
A legal brawl is brewing in the Broward Circuit Court after Omega Aviation sued Presidential Aviation for breach of contract and negligence, alleging that the company failed to perform proper due diligence before selling a private jet to the plaintiff, which later experienced a landing accident. “This case matters to the flying public because it addresses how the airplanes we fly on are certified before being put into use,” said Sean A.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a case regarding a former intern of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida who alleged he was unlawfully terminated and that his superior spread defamatory statements about him to media outlets. In 2018, Jonathan Mullane, then a second-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law, interned at the USAO for the Southern District of Florida.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Tommaso Baronio
John Ruiz and the MSP Recovery Law Firm sued Boies Schiller Flexner, its partner Sashi C. Bach, and additional law firms and lawyers in the Miami-Dade Circuit Court over allegations that the defendants engaged in the disclosure of confidential information and tortious interference with business relationships.
