On January 31, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14192, titled“ Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.” Its stated purpose was to encourage the reduction of private expenditure required to comply with federal…
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/ Administrative Law, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
Recorded live at the 2025 Sunshine Cyber Conference in Tampa, Jack Clabby of Carlton Fields and resident cybersecurity expert Kayley Melton, executive director of operations at the Cognitive Security Institute, sit down with…
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/ Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Electronic Discovery, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
How should attorneys advise their clients who are new to a public company board? Where should a corporate secretary start if asked to provide an orientation for a public company board? Former SEC Special Counsel Brian Soares and…
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/ Business Organizations, Taxation
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
Lamonaco v. Experian - arbitration -
Labriola v. Miami-Dade - employment, First Amendment -
Wood v. Fla DOE - school, transgender, § 1000.071, First Amendment -
USA v…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Remedies, Criminal Law, Education Law, Family Law
On June 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission hosted a roundtable discussion about potential changes to existing executive compensation disclosure requirements. In the lively discussion, panelists representing issuers,…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
A new law requires builders of newly-constructed homes to provide transferable warranties for a minimum period of one-year beginning July 1. Originally passed during Florida’s 2024 Legislative Session, HB 623, entitled, “Home…
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/ Construction Law, Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The U.S. Supreme Court in its 2024–25 term continued to robustly protect religious liberty under the First Amendment but retreated from core First Amendment principles in two cases involving the internet…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Taxation
In Universal Prop & Cas. Ins. Co. v. West Naze, No. 4D2024-0098 (Fla. 4th DCA Jun. 4, 2025), the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal reaffirmed that an insured cannot introduce evidence of claim handling in a breach of…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to a confirmation of an arbitration award upholding the nonrenewal of a master franchise agreement for Subway restaurants…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Franchise Law
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
USA v. Zayas - currency transaction report, filing -
Cunningham v. Cobb - § 1983, qualified immunity…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Family Law
In Preferred Wireless LLC v. T-Mobile USA Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio addressed a motion by defendant T-Mobile to confirm an arbitrator’s award of attorneys’ fees and costs, and also addressed…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
The case involved a dispute between a medical device manufacturer and a purchaser. The petitioner, Northgate Technologies Inc., alleged that United States Endoscopy Group Inc. breached a requirements contract by purchasing…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Business Torts, Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Science, Computers, & Technology
In Columbia Casualty Co. v. State Auto Mutual Insurance Co., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded, under Ohio law, that a demand letter to a general liability insurance carrier’s insured containing allegations of bad…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
On May 22, 2025, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1386 into law, reclassifying criminal penalties for assault and battery against utility workers while they are engaged in critical infrastructure work. The law takes…
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/ Criminal Law, Energy & Utilities, Labor & Employment Law
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
Hicks v. Middleton - vicarious liability, employment, course and scope -
UHS v. Sec’y of Labor - OSHA, workplace violence, employer -
JF v. Carnival - negligence, cruise, sexual…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law