Federal judge says deported Cubans reached US soil in bridge landing case
US District Judge Federico Moreno ruled Tuesday that the US Coast Guard acted unreasonably when it sent 15 Cubans back home after their boat reached an abandoned bridge in January and said that the Cubans had reached...
Judge presiding over Cuban landing case critical of US argument
On Thursday, the District Court judge hearing the emergency lawsuit brought by families of a group of Cubans who were deported for failing to reach US land criticized the government's reasoning supporting the deportation order. The Cubans...
US military commission proceedings against two of a handful of charged prisoners at Guantanamo Bay , originally scheduled to restart Tuesday, have been pushed back to Wednesday in recognition of the the Feast of the Sacrifice, a...
Former Cuban political prisoner sues Castro for psychiatric abuse
Nilo Jerez, a former political prisoner in Cuba , sued Fidel Castro and his government Thursday claiming he had been rendered sterile after having been repeatedly tortured with drugs and electric shocks in the early...
States brief ~ Florida not prosecuting columnist for taped conversations
Leading Friday's states brief, former Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede will not be prosecuted for secretly taping phone conversations with Miami city commissioner Arthur T. Teele Jr. just before Teele killed himself. Assistant State Attorney...
Florida prohibits sex offenders from using hurricane shelters
A new Florida policy that took effect on June 1 bans sex offenders from public hurricane shelters if they are under state supervision and not permitted near children. Instead, they...
Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...
Gov. Bush signs abortion bill calling for increased state oversight
Florida Governor Jeb Bush Tuesday signed into law House Bill 1041 , providing for increased state oversight of clinics that provide second-trimester abortions. Bush said the law is about increasing safety standards and...
Federal judge says FBI agents didn't use excessive force in Elian Gonzalez raid
US District Judge Michael Moore has ruled that federal agents who seized Elian Gonzalez during a 2000 raid did not use excessive force by firing tear gas during the raid. In his opinion , issued Friday,...
Miami-Dade County has agreed to a $6.25 million settlement that applies to thousands of women illegally strip-searched at county correctional facilities, one of the largest civil rights settlements in the county's history. The settlement was approved Monday...
