BY MELISSA COATES — Sara Fain, a former Miami Law Review ACE, followed an unusual path to her current position as senior staff counsel with the Everglades Law Center, where she works as an advocate for Everglades protection and restoration. Fain earned her J.D. from UM in 2005, along with a master’s in marine affairs from […]
BY ALYSSA WILLIAMS — Shoppers today stood outside various retail establishments in the wee hours of the morning, or perhaps late Thanksgiving night, to grab door-busters and giveaways on America’s busiest shopping day. However, when packing the thermos, store ads, and sweater, shoppers (and employees) should bring along their attorney’s business card as well. While clever […]
BY ERYCA SCHIFFMAN — In one of the most ironic twists of the mortgage crisis, a former financial executive stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars in a whistleblower suit against Bank of America. In February 2012, former Countrywide Home Loans Executive Vice President Edward O’Donnell filed a qui tam action under the False […]
BY EAMON WELCH — Although Native Americans enjoy a substantial degree of sovereign immunity on their tribal lands, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently demonstrated that this immunity is not unqualified. On October 15, 2012, in Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the […]
BY ROSS CHAFFIN — Florida, meet trolls. In response to recent federal judicial intervention, and with the help of some obscure legal weapons, copyright trolls are now plying their dubious trade en masse in the courts of the Sunshine State. “Copyright trolls” are entities that purchase intellectual property rights to a wide variety of media, from computer […]
