Tampa, Florida civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming his rights were violated by being wrongfully charged and convicted of a crime he did not commit.

"After DNA analysis of newly-discovered evidence “affirmatively excluded himâ€� as a suspect and resulted in the vacatur of his 1985 conviction for murder, Robert DuBoise sues (Doc. 62) the City of Tampa,... More...    $0 (10-03-2022 - FL)

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed Defendant's conviction in 1988, stating:

"This cause is before the Court on appeal of a judgment of conviction of capital felony for which a sentence of death was imposed. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. Robert Earl DuBoise app... More...    $0 (03-07-1985 - FL)

DeFuniak Springs, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding a church.

Roger McLaney, who was the treasurer of the Friendship Baptist Church of DeFuniak Springs from September 2015 to September 2020. He was charged with defrauding the church in an amount over $50,000 via systematic and ongoing diversions of funds for his personal use for nearly four o... More...    $0 (12-06-2022 - FL)

Tampa, Florida personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 19083.

Thomas Ireland, Gregg Ireland’s father and the personal representative of Gregg Ireland’s estate (“Ireland’s Estateâ€� or “Estateâ€�), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the named Defendants. This appeal stems from ... More...    $0 (11-14-2022 - FL)

Miami, Florida qui tam lawyers represented the United States, which sued SHC Home Health Services-Ocala, LLC., et al. on a False Claims Act whistleblower theory claiming Defendant improperly billing the Medicare Program for home health services provided to beneficiaries living in Florida.

Signature HomeNow operated home healthcare services in Florida and its corporate headquarters are lo... More...    $2100000 (05-11-2022 - FL)

Miami, Florida environmental law lawyers represented Defendant charged with violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. (Princess) pleaded guilty to a second violation of probation imposed as a result of its 2017 criminal conviction for environmental crimes because it failed to establish and maintain an independent internal investigative office. Under th... More...    $0 (01-11-2022 - FL)

Miami, FL - Former Biscayne Park Chief of Police Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Other Officers to Violate Victims’ Civil Rights by Making False Arrests
Former Village of Biscayne Park Chief of Police, Raimundo Atesiano, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with subordinate officers to violate individuals’ civil rights by making false arrests, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Gre... More...    $0 (09-20-2018 - FL)

Cheryl Searcy (“Plaintiff”) sued the defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Inc. (together, “Defendants”) for unintentional and intentional torts arising from the death of her mother, Carol Lasard, alleging that Lasard’s illnesses were caused by her addiction to cigarettes manufactured by Defendants. The jury found for Plaintiff on both the unintentional and intentional tort c... More...    $0 (09-12-2018 - FL)

The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.
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The pertinent facts are undisputed. In 1941, th... More...    $0 (09-12-2018 - FL)

Washington was a suspect in the murder of Alphonso Doss because he was having an affair with Doss’s wife. Washington was first interviewed by police nine days after the murder. A second interview was conducted six months later after Washington voluntarily drove himself to the police station. The interview
began around 10:17 p.m. and continued until the early morning hours of the following ... More...    $0 (08-01-2018 - FL)

Edroy James Ballard Jr. was shot and killed on June 3, 2014, in Horn Lake, Mississippi. A DeSoto County grand jury charged Lofton with Ballard’s murder. Lofton was deemed indigent, and Adam Emerson was appointed to represent him. Several months later, Emerson filed a motion to reconsider Lofton’s indigent status. Emerson informed the trial court that Lofton had refused to meet with him and wi... More...    $0 (07-15-2018 - FL)

In this appeal from his conviction and sentence for second degree murder, appellant, Hiram Gonzalez Morales, contends that the court erred in denying his “Stand Your Ground” defense, as well as erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal at his trial. After reviewing the evidence, we conclude that the court did not err in either respect. We therefore affirm the judgment and sentence. <... More...    $0 (06-28-2018 - FL)

Wenxia Man appeals her conviction and sentence for conspiracy to export defense articles without a license or written approval in violation of the Arms Control Export Act, 22 U.S.C. § 2778; see also 22 C.F.R. §§ 121.1, 123.1, 127.1.
Case: 16-15635 Date Filed: 06/06/2018 Page: 1 of 44
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Her appeal requires us to decide whether sufficient evidence supports her conviction, including the d... More...    $0 (06-11-2018 - FL)

The testimony and evidence presented by the State revealed that Appellant and Javier Chandler had been childhood friends and, on the day of the offense, were still neighbors. Chandler, who was twenty-six years old at the time of the trial, testified that Appellant, a few years’ Chandler’s junior, had been like a little brother to him growing up. As they grew older they grew apart, yet remained on ... More...    $0 (06-10-2018 - FL)

James Alfred Jacobson appeals his conviction for seconddegree murder, arguing that the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of acquittal. Jacobson contends that the State failed to prove that he acted with ill will, hatred, spite, or evil intent and that the shooting of the victim was an accident. We affirm.
The murder victim, Bryan Edwards, lived across the street fro... More...    $0 (06-10-2018 - FL)

This appeal, brought by three tobacco companies (“Appellants”), challenges on multiple grounds the judgment entered against them and in favor of Pauline Burkhart for compensatory and punitive damages. The judgment was awarded after a bifurcated, ten-day trial in which the jury found in Burkhart’s favor on her claims of negligence, strict liability, fraudulent concealment, and civil conspiracy. Thi... More...    $0 (03-12-2018 - FL)

Dr. Edward Tobinick appeals the District Court’s award of attorney’s fees to Dr. Steven Novella. Dr. Tobinick argues both that the District Court’s decision to award attorney’s fees and the amount of fees it awarded were made in error. This case presents an issue of first impression for our circuit. That is, whether the “exceptional case” standard for awarding attorney’s fees in Patent Act cases, ... More...    $0 (03-12-2018 - FL)