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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about the constitutionality of a state statute allowing Florida’s nonprofit insurer of last resort to require claims be decided before a state agency that adjudicates administrative disputes.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - With 34 days until the midterm elections, administrators from across the country said mail ballot processes and citizenship verification remain key issues.
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Reporting from Just the News
A judge who admitted to hundreds of violations of Florida's judicial ethics code left the bench without suspension or fine and kept a partially taxpayer-funded pension. The Florida Supreme Court noted that Tennis had "written hundreds of checks" in violation of the code's prohibition on political donations.
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Reporting from Just the News
A document that accompanied the vote claimed “there is substantial evidence that CAIR is engaging in terrorist activity” and accused the group of having connections to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Cabinet approved the designation of over 100 organizations as domestic terrorist organizations in Florida.
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Reporting from Just the News
Florida expanded the designation to include the domestic terrorist group label and also labeled al-Qaeda, the Houthis and the Continuity Irish Republican Army as foreign terrorist organizations.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized higher health insurance premiums Monday that are being driven by the use of AI tools in healthcare.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Orange County commissioners passed a $9 billion budget Thursday night, with $1.1 billion approved for public safety.
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(The Center Square) - In less than one week, a U.S. Coast Guard crew seized more than 25,000 pounds of cocaine across three interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office has sued nine companies for allegedly working together to drive up insulin prices.
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