U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Florida Medicaid fight
TALLAHASSEE The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take up a dispute about how much money Floridas Medicaid program should be able to recoup after a legal settlement involving a Lee
Vaccination rates slowing for adults and children
COVID-19 vaccination rates lag in vast swaths of rural Florida compared to the rest of the state — a pattern that also has been seen in other areas of the country, a new report shows. Neither Franklin nor Gulf counties are immune. The report, released Friday by the state Department of Health, said 55 percent…
Court: FCI inmate can seek punitive damages
In a case that has drawn interest from a wide range of civil-liberties groups, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that a state inmate can seek punitive damages in a lawsuit that alleged threats by guards at Florida Correctional Institution violated his First Amendment rights. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Conraad…
Supreme Court shuts out Florida 9-0
TALLAHASSEE — After years of legal battling, the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously rejected a lawsuit in which Florida argued Georgia has used too much water in a river system shared by the states. The 12-page ruling dismissed the lawsuit that Florida filed in 2013 after the oyster fishery collapsed in Franklin Countys Apalachicola…