Ron DeSantis to move an ongoing inspector general investigation into Rubin’s behavior away from Patronis’ office and for Attorney General Ashley Moody to open a criminal investigation into her fellow Cabinet member. Patronis’ office, citing the advice of counsel, declined to comment on pending litigation, spokeswoman Katie Strickland said. The lawsuit, which alleges conspiracy and defamation, …
The winner of a $9 million state lottery jackpot can continue a lawsuit that contends he would have won millions more if the prior drawing had not been rigged by a rogue insider, an Iowa judge has ruled. District Court Judge Karen Romano rejected requests Wednesday to dismiss the case, which is the first filed against the Multi-State Lottery Association over a major jackpot-rigging scandal …
A federal judge has refused to free Dover Area School District from a lawsuit filed by a former female student who for years was sexually abused by her music teacher. That teacher, Matthew Puterbaugh, is also a defendant in the U.S. Middle District Court suit. He is serving a sentence of 15 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, plus a 5- to 10-year state prison term for …
A Somerset County investigator has challenged the probe into the September 2014 deaths of Camden hospital executive John Sheridan and his wife. Jeffrey Scozzafava, a detective with the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, contends crime-scene evidence from the couple’s home “was improperly collected, improperly preserved and subsequently destroyed.” The criticisms are …
A Monroe law firm has filed a lawsuit in state district court in Jefferson Parish seeking class-action status against the city of Gretna and Arizona-based Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. The suit claims the city’s use of an automated camera system to issue traffic tickets and the hearings at which cited motorists can challenge their tickets are both illegal. The Hudson Potts & Bernstein firm filed …