By Dara Kam and Ryan Dailey | November 10, 2021
University of Florida President Kent Fuchs said the university would go ahead with convening a task force to review the school's practices "regarding requests for approval of outside activities involving potential conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment."
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By Mike Schneider | November 8, 2021
University of Florida President Kent Fuchs said he is asking the office responsible for approving professors' outside work to green-light the request of three teachers to serve as expert witnesses in litigation challenging a new state election law that critics say restricts voting rights.
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By Jasmine Floyd | November 4, 2021
"I think in this matter if they would have strategically admitted liabilityfrom the onset, I think they could have limited the damages on their end, but from day one they said my client knew the bathroom was closed by the cart being there, she should have known," Halperin said. "They just tried to blame it on everyone else but themselves. In trial they tried to suggest the water on the floor could have been from kids playing in a sink or from anything else besides the Wal-Mart employee mopping there minutes before," attorney Scott Halperin said
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By Associated Press | November 2, 2021
University of Florida leaders prohibited three professors from being paid as expert witnesses in a lawsuit that says Florida's new elections law harms voting rights, saying such testimony would go against the school's interest by conflicting with the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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By Mike Schneider | November 1, 2021
The professors were told by the university that their expert testimony would dissent from the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, creating a conflict for the school.
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By Jasmine Floyd | September 28, 2021
"This case makes me want to make sure that BP or any corporation, who is putting image before public health never ever behaves this way ever again. Some of these calls that I have with these parents, it is the hardest piece of it," attorney Riana Maryanoff said.
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By Scott Mollen | September 28, 2021
In this week's Realty Law Digest, Scott Mollen discusses two landlord-tenant cases: "Y.A. Mullings Corp. v. Hall," where the court denied the landlord's motion to permit witnesses to testify against tenants anonymously, and "Fisher v. Burke," where the tenant/roommate was granted final judgment of possession in an illegal lockout proceeding.
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By John L.A. Lyddane | September 24, 2021
In his Medical Malpractice column, John Lyddane provides a discussion for defense counsel in malpractice cases where the focus is reliance on prescription medication package inserts. He writes: "Where that reliance is misplaced, defense counsel needs to be ready to respond."
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By Jasmine Floyd | September 20, 2021
"We no longer call it 'revenge porn' because that makes it sound like a petulant act by a bad boyfriend, whereas trolls, hackers, blackmailers are committing image-based sexual abuse on an industrial scale, and it terrifies victims," Dr. Ann Olivarius said.
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By Jeremy H. Temkin | September 15, 2021
In 'Cheek v. United States,' the Supreme Court established the government's burden of proof to show that a defendant acted "willfully" in order to obtain a conviction on criminal tax charges. In this column Tax Litigation Issues, Jeremy H. Temkin analyzes recent circuit court decisions rejecting claims that defendants were improperly deprived of their ability to present a 'Cheek' defense through expert testimony.
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