39 Fla. L. Weekly D959b Attorney’s fees — Proposal for settlement — Error to award fees for attorney time which predated proposal for settlement service date MILLS-TEL CORP., etc., Appellant, vs. KATTOUR, INC., etc., et. al., Appellees. 3rd District. Case No. 3D13-885. L.T. Case No. 11-35285. Opinion filed May 7, 2014. An Appeal from the Read More »
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Employment law — Employment Discrimination — Relationship between protected expression and adverse employment action
24 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. D325a Public employees — Counties — Employment discrimination — Retaliation — Whistleblower — Action by African-American transit security supervisor who alleged he was given inferior assignments, suspended twice, and ultimately terminated in retaliation for his objection to white managerial employee’s use of racial epithet in front of another African-American employee Read More »
Annual Firm Outing with the Rays
Firm Partners David Abbey, Joe Mueller and Deborah Eldridge with Paralegal Debbie Justice in the Papa John’s Bullpen Box at the Annual Firm Outing with the Rays.
Employer’s vicarious liability for intentional acts of employee
39 Fla. L. Weekly D927a Torts — Battery — Vicarious liability — Employer’s liability for intentional acts of employee — Plaintiff alleging he was battered by store employee in an altercation which arose when employee began reshelving items in plaintiff’s shopping cart, which employee thought was abandoned, and culminated in employee shoving plaintiff, causing him Read More »
Premises Liability — Transitory Foreign Substance — First DCA notes no clear legislative intent for statute to apply retroactively
39 Fla. L. Weekly D922a Torts — Premises liability — Slip and fall on slippery substance on dance floor of defendant country club — Trial court erred in entering summary judgment for defendant where there was testimony that patrons routinely took drinks onto dance floor, which commonly resulted in spills on dance floor — Such Read More »