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Federal judge overturns $4.7 billion jury verdict in ‘Sunday Ticket’ lawsuit and rules for NFL

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 2, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, NFL, Sports.

By JOE REEDY LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has overturned a jury’s $4.7 billion verdict in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL and has granted judgment to the NFL. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled Thursday that the testimony of two witnesses for the subscribers had flawed methodologies and should have been excluded. “Without the testimonies of Dr. (Daniel) Rascher and Dr. (John) Zona, no reasonable jury could have found class-wide injury or damages,” Gutierrez wrote at the end of his 16-page ruling. The jury on June 27 awarded $4.7...

Body, submerged car found in canal in western Miramar

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News.

Two fishermen found a body in a canal in western Miramar on Wednesday evening, according to police. The fishermen saw the body in the canal near Southwest 196th Avenue and south of Pembroke Road shortly after 7:30 p.m., said Tania Ordaz, a spokesperson for Miramar Police. A car was also found submerged in the same canal, she said. The person’s gender and identity as well as the type of car were not known Wednesday night, Ordaz said. Officers remained at the scene as of about 9:30 p.m. The canal where the fishermen found the body is about three miles northwest of where a Fort Lauderdale...

NRA again asks court to overturn Florida law banning people under 21 from buying long guns

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Parkland school shooting.

TALLAHASSEE — After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the National Rifle Association on Wednesday urged an appellate court to find that a 2018 Florida law banning people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns violates the Second Amendment. The Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to include the age restriction in a sweeping school-safety bill after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, used a semiautomatic rifle to kill 17 students and faculty members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Federal law already...

Feds urge judge to toss out Florida suit challenging rule on gun seller licenses and background checks

TALLAHASSEE — The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys Monday filed a 22-page motion in federal court in Tampa arguing that Florida does not have legal standing to challenge the rule, which was finalized in April by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit May 1, in part alleging that the rule will force the state to handle a...

Marlins active at trade deadline before giving up five runs in sixth inning during loss to Rays

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Marlins, MLB, Sports.

ST. PETERSBURG — Trade acquisition Christopher Morel homered in his Tampa Bay debut, helping the new-look Rays come from behind to beat the Miami Marlins 9-3 on Tuesday night. Ben Rortvedt and Yandy Diaz each contributed two-run singles off reliever Declan Cronin (2-3) during a five-run sixth inning that propelled the Rays to a 6-3 lead. Jose Caballero added an RBI double, then stole home to extend the lead in the seventh. Morel, acquired Sunday in a trade that sent All-Star infielder Isaac Paredes to Chicago, homered to left center field off Marlins starter Edward Cabrera leading off the...

Boar’s Head expands recall to include 7 million more pounds of deli meats tied to listeria outbreak

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

By JONEL ALECCIA The popular deli meat company Boar’s Head is recalling an additional 7 million pounds of ready-to-eat products made at a Virginia plant as an investigation into a deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning continues, U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Tuesday. The new recall includes 71 products made between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand names. It follows an earlier recall of more than 200,000 pounds of sliced deli poultry and meat. The new items include meat intended to be sliced at delis as well as some packaged meat and poultry...

Divided School Board suspends mom of transgender athlete for 10 days

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2024. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A Monarch High employee accused of allowing her transgender daughter to play girls sports in violation of state law will be suspended for 10 days and moved to a different job, a divided Broward School Board decided Tuesday. Jessica Norton, 50, an information management specialist and coach at the Coconut Creek school, was one of at least eight district employees investigated, but the only one to face discipline. An investigation concluded that her child, now 16, played volleyball for two years at Monarch, as well as soccer and volleyball at nearby Lyons Creek Middle. A committee of district...

Better than Joe Burrow? Dolphins’ Tua comes in at No. 36 in NFL Top 100

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 30, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Dolphins, NFL, Sports.

After locking in the four-year, $212.4 million extension on Friday that will solidify Tua Tagovailoa as the Miami Dolphins’ franchise quarterback, he was recognized among the league’s top 40 players in an esteemed player poll on Monday. Related Articles Miami Dolphins | Dolphins tackle Terron Armstead to practice for first time in camp Tuesday Miami Dolphins | Dolphins’ Jaylen Waddle pleased to know he’ll be catching passes from Tua for years to come in Miami Miami Dolphins | Dolphins Deep Dive: Furones, Hyde discuss...

DeSantis signs death warrant in 1994 murder of FSU student

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 30, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister. Loran Cole, 57, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 29 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted Monday evening on the Florida Supreme Court website. Cole would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October, when Michael Duane Zack was put to death by lethal injection for a 1996 murder in Escambia County. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John...

Xavier Edwards becomes second Marlin to hit for cycle in loss to Brewers

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 29, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Marlins, MLB, Sports.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Miami’s Xavier Edwards became the second Marlins player ever to hit for the cycle Sunday in a 6-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. Edwards hit his first career homer on the opening pitch of the game, drew a leadoff walk in the third, doubled in the fifth and tripled in the seventh. He capped his afternoon by beating out an infield single against two-time NL reliever Devin Williams with two outs in the ninth inning. He reached base on all four of his plate appearances and had two runs and one RBI. Before last year, the Marlins had been the only active major league team never...