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Jennifer Drechsel Bailey is a retired American judge who served for 30 years in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County.She is recognized nationally, statewide, and locally for her work on improving justice in the civil litigation system through studying, understanding, and implementing effective changes to court and judicial case management.
Famous cases heard in the district include the prosecution of former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega, [4] the Elián González case, [5] notorious Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, [6] a 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida case, [7] the prosecution of José Padilla, [8] and one of [9] the federal prosecutions of ...
The CCLW organized the successful campaign for the passage of a Miami-Dade County living wage ordinance in 1999, the first of its kind in the South. [86] The ordinance requires Miami-Dade County and its contractors to pay all employees a living wage pegged to inflation: $12.63/hr with benefits, or $15 without (as of 2018). [87]
During that time period, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office filed just 263 cases, involving over-payments of $3,922,226. Exactly how much in restitution was lost out on remains unclear.
Lisa Sharon Walsh is an American judge, serving on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida since 2011. She has been Administrative Judge of that court's Appellate Division, a judge of its International Commercial Arbitration Court since 2017, and a business court judge in its Complex Business Litigation Division since 2023.
After a decade of federal monitors faulting Miami-Dade County jails, inspectors say the Corrections Department has met all demands set by the U.S. Department of Justice in a 2013 lawsuit against ...
The government of Miami-Dade County is defined and authorized under the Constitution of Florida, Florida law, and the Home Rule Charter of Miami-Dade County. [ 1 ] Since its formation in 1957, Miami-Dade County, Florida has had a two-tier system of government.
An FBI agent took the witness stand at the federal detention hearing of Tal Alexander — one of three wealthy Miami Beach brothers charged with sex-trafficking — and testified that since June ...