R. Gregory Lewis (Charlotte, NC) (Government Law) obtained Summary Judgment on behalf of a municipality and police officer in Superior Court, Davidson County, NC. Plaintiff alleged she sustained substantial injuries resulting from a motor vehicle accident, where the Defendant was fleeing from law enforcement in what Plaintiff’s counsel contended was a reckless, high-speed chase. The evidence tended to… Read More
Yindra Carmona and Victor Lopez, Sr., as Mother and Father and Legal Guardians of a minor vs. School Board Of Lee County.
Philip J. Fairman (Fort Myers, FL) (Governmental Law) obtained a Final Summary Judgment in Lee County, Florida. The Plaintiffs claimed that the child passenger on the School Board’s school bus was blinded when he was struck in the eye by an unsecured seat belt after the bus braked suddenly. Between July 2018 and July 2021, the Plaintiffs retained… Read More
Florida Department of Children and Families v. Kacey Chiddister, as father and natural guardian of C.H.
William Kratochvil and Joseph Bootka (Fort Myers, Florida) (Governmental Law) obtained Final Summary Judgment for Defendant Florida Department of Children and Families, an agency of the State of Florida, against Plaintiff Kacey Chiddister, as father and natural guardian of C.H., a minor, in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in Lee County Florida before Judge Joseph C. Fuller. The cause of… Read More
Sebastian Mccall, Jr. v. School Board of Broward County
Thomas W. Paradise and Lauren Stone (Hollywood, FL) (Appeal/Governmental Law) obtained Final Summary Judgment in the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Plaintiff, Sebastian McCall, was a 20-year-old spectator who attended a basketball game at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Florida on January 12, 2013. The basketball game was against Deerfield Beach High School,… Read More
Digennaro v. Malgrat, et. al.
Gaelan Jones and Dirk M. Smits (Islamorada, FL) (Governmental Law) with assistance from Hunter O’Conner, obtained a Dismissal Without Prejudice on behalf of all Monroe County School Board Defendants in the matter of Digennaro v. Malgrat, et. al. Bianca Digennaro sued the School Board, the City of Key West and several individual school officials and… Read More