Navigation Angelina “Angel” Colonneso The Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller’s Division of Inspector General (IG) says it prevented over $1.25 million in ineligible and potentially fraudulent CARES Act funds and COVID assistance payments from being paid by reviewing applications totaling $10.2 million. The IG reviewed payments for the Manatee County Housing Assistance […]
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Tallahassee federal courthouse renamed in honor of Justice Hatchett
Joseph Hatchett President Joe Biden recently signed legislation renaming the federal courthouse in Tallahassee after civil rights pioneer and former Supreme Court Justice Joseph W. Hatchett. A retired 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals chief judge and the first Black person since Reconstruction to serve on Florida’s highest court, Judge Hatchett died April 30, 2021, […]
Justice Labarga hailed as one of America’s ‘Great Immigrants’
Justice Labarga Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga was one of 34 naturalized citizens honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in its annual list of “Great Immigrants.” Labarga came to the United States from Cuba with his family when he was 11. He has been a justice on the Florida Supreme Court since […]
Stetson Law wins YLD moot court competition
Justice Ricky Polston, from the left, Justice Alan Lawson, Chief Justice Charles Canady, Tyler Brown, Hannah Klonowski, Justice John Couriel, Justice Jamie Grosshans, Justice Carlos Muñiz, and Justice Jorge Labarga. For the second year in a row, a Stetson Law team won the Young Lawyers Division’s Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition at The Florida […]
Zedalis honored with Selig I. Goldin Memorial Award
UF Law Dean Laura A. Rosenbury, Jennifer Zedalis, and Senior Judge Paul C. Huck. UF Law Professor Jennifer Zedalis, a legal scholar, popular teacher, and passionate defense lawyer who has dedicated most of her career to professional service, is the 2022 Selig I. Goldin Memorial Award winner. A University of Florida Levin College of Law […]