Tag: Florida’s

09 MAR

Florida’s Republican governor signed a compromise gun-control bill in a major break with the NRA

Reuters/Joshua Roberts Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill on Friday combining certain gun-control and school-safety measures. The bill broke with the National Rifle Association in raising the minimum age for rifle purchases to 21 from 18. But it also fell short of expectations from survivors of last month’s high-school shooting — they called it a […]

27 OCT

Florida’s top court stops 1960s band from earning pre-1972 copyright royalties

The Turtles in 1967. (credit: Chris Walter/WireImage) Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles have lost a major legal battle in their quest to collect copyright royalties from their old hit songs. The Florida Supreme Court held today (PDF) that the state doesn’t recognize any copyrights in pre-1972 music recordings, despite the band’s arguments to the contrary. All […]

07 OCT

Florida’s risky real-estate game is protected by a billion-dollar insurance industry — but that could soon change

REUTERS/Carlos Barria After dodging the worst of Hurricane Irma, Florida’s coastal real estate boom shows no signs of slowing. In Miami and nearby waterfront cities, a survey of local records show that more than 90 luxury high-rise apartment blocks are under construction or have been completed since 2015, increasingly financed by overseas investors looking for […]

17 MAY

Florida’s expanded ‘Stand Your Ground’ law has prosecutors sounding the alarm

Screenshot/ABC Action News When the National Rifle Association conceived the law known as “stand your ground,” the intention was to protect those who shoot others in self-defense from prosecution. The hugely consequential law, which has transformed how self-defense shooting cases are treated in two dozen states, came in response to a single incident in which […]