Legal Updates

PARI-MUTUEL CARD GAMES  The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation will appeal an administrative law judge’s ruling that the Department illegally abolished rules governing card games at pari-mutuel facilities.  The facilities argued that, without the rules, games are effectively shut down while the State insists the facilities are operating their games outside of existing Read more about Legal Updates[…]

Legal Updates

THIRD GRADE RETENTION Fourteen parents  filed a suit in Leon County Circuit Court seeking an injunction against seven school districts to prohibit the districts from retaining third grade students whose parents opted out of the Florida Standards Assessment test. Confusion exists throughout Florida’s public schools regarding whether opting out is a legitimate reason to retain Read more about Legal Updates[…]