Crandall Medical Consulting, LLC v. Gainey · No. 1D2025-2124 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided October 7, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. A support-coordination company assigned by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to a young man with complex medical needs, and its employee, were … Read more
Blackmon-Patterson v. Van Diepen · No. 1D2025-2879 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided October 7, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. A residential tenant who fails to deposit past-due rent into the court registry loses on the landlord’s claim for possession, but that failure does not … Read more
Weber v. State · No. 1D2025-1427 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided September 30, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. A sentencing judge who rejects a defendant’s request for a downward departure does not have to state on the record the reasons for that decision, the … Read more
City of Maitland v. McGovern · No. 1D2025-2729 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided October 7, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. The City of Maitland remains responsible for a former firefighter’s heart-disease claim and cannot obtain contribution from the airport authority where he later worked, … Read more
Velazquez v. State · No. 1D2025-0550 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided October 7, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. Section 948.30(2)(a), Florida Statutes, bars the results of a sex offender probationer’s mandatory polygraph from being used as evidence in court to prove a violation, but … Read more
Gainesville Regional Utility Authority v. City of Gainesville · No. 1D2025-1364 (Fla. 1st DCA) · Decided October 7, 2026 More analysis may follow as additional information is received and reviewed. Sign up for alerts. When the Legislature creates a utility authority through a special law that amends a city’s charter, the city cannot later adopt … Read more
A decedent’s sister tried to add his Wisconsin friends as defendants in a long-running Escambia County probate case, alleging they influenced him to leave assets to their children. The First District affirms there’s no personal jurisdiction over them in Florida.
An impulsive overreaction during a sudden, volatile domestic crisis is not the “ill will, hatred, spite, or evil intent” that second-degree murder requires. The First District Court of Appeal reversed a second-degree murder conviction and ordered a manslaughter judgment entered instead. Matthew Peoples shot his sister’s intoxicated, aggressive boyfriend during a domestic confrontation; the two … Read more
After her son suffered a compensable traumatic brain injury on a lawn-care job, Kimberly Fish sought reimbursement for the guardianship she needed to manage his workers’ comp benefits. The Judge of Compensation Claims said no — the First District reverses.
Key Haven waited 45 years to challenge the state’s halt on its Florida Keys dredge-and-fill project, then sued when a new permit application was denied. The statute of limitations already ran, the First District affirms.