BREAKING: Jury finds Tesla liable for a fatal Florida Keys crash, awards $129m in compensatory damages and $200m in punitive damages

Short day in court today, with just two witnesses -- Dillon Angulo, who was injured in the crash, and Neima Benavides, the sister of the woman killed in the crash -- taking the stand. www.law360.com/productliabi...

I have been remiss in my posting about the big Tesla trial in Miami. Here’s my latest from yesterday, plus a juror disqualification after the defense found a TikTok in which he’d said “F Elon Musk:” www.law360.com/florida/arti...

My dispatch from day 2 of the Miami trial over Tesla’s autopilot: www.law360.com/consumerprot...

This is shocking. Margaret is a rock star. What a short-sighted move.

Victim's Family Says Tesla 'Set Stage' For Fatal Fla. Crash www.law360.com/consumerprot...

The Law360 Union is fighting for a sensible approach to AI in our newsroom. Pleaee support us by signing this petition! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Kristi Noem has been an elected official since at least 2007.

Oracles Capital, a Florida-based wine and spirits brand investor, filed for bankruptcy in Delaware to quickly sell its assets, saying macroeconomic conditions and wine import tariffs have prevented it from raising new money. www.law360.com/artic...

Overheard on the bus to Miami Beach: “They say Epstein died in prison but he’s alive and well in Israel”

🚨 The Bukele dictatorship is preparing arrest warrants for my colleagues @elfaro.net, after the outlet exposed details of President Bukele’s secret ties to gangs.

AND I WAS IN THE STANDS TO SEE IT! What an awesome night of swimming.

This technology that is supposed to revolutionize everything still seems to consistently get lots of basic things hilariously wrong

What this man is doing is the stuff of my nightmares, but it is very cool to see what's come out of his insane experimentation

T-30 days until hurricane season!

So after that, I bought tickets to be there for her 800 on Saturday.

Katie Ledecky, who’s supposed to be getting old, just swam the second fastest 1500m in women’s swimming history. She now holds the 22 fastest 1500m times ever. Ledecky would have placed *third* in the men’s competition. swimswam.com/katie-ledeck...

I have been a pedestrian, transit rider, driver and cyclist in Manhattan, and the only times I thought “this is freedom” were when I was on my folding bike riding all over the city.

Here's my story on today's hearing: www.law360.com/florida/arti...

In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.

We are back before Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami in the legal challenge to Florida's anti-undocumented immigrant law and the state's argument that the court order blocking the law doesn't apply to law enforcement officers is not going down any better than it did last time.

Prominent Miami developer Michael Stern filed suit Friday in Florida state court against a John Doe who he claims is engaging in a coordinated smear campaign, spreading false information about Stern and his development company. www.law360.com/artic...

Another unimaginably heartbreaking story ▶️ she is married to a US citizen who according to her husband "has no criminal record, works caring for the elderly in their homes, and is a devoted mother who was still breastfeeding their daughter."

How does this keep happening?! Lawyers, if you're going to use AI to generate a brief, make sure the cases cited actually exist! www.law360.com/trials/artic...

ICYMI, I filed this late yesterday evening. Fla's AG told law enforcement that he can't stop them from enforcing the state's new law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized migrants, despite a federal judge saying last Friday that it applies to law enforcement officers.

Fla. AG Tells Cops TRO Blocking Migrant Law Is Unlawful www.law360.com/florida/arti...

Oh look, the federal government is following Florida’s lead.

Tuning in to the Miami Beach City Commission meeting, and a couple of tourism industry advocates (didn't catch their names) spoke about how international tourism was down in March between 10 and 20 percent compared to pre-Covid numbers.

I continue to be amazed that people still pick up the phone when Isaac Chotiner calls.

Florida Florida Florida By August Trump will have SIX judicial vacancies in the sunshine state. He already has four and they're labeled "judicial emergencies" www.law360.com/articles/232...

Jurors in the first Helms-Burton Title III trial came back with a big win for the plaintiff, a man who claims his family owned Cayo Coco, an island off the coast of Cuba, until it was seized by the Castro government www.law360.com/florida/arti...

And here's my story on this morning's hearing: www.law360.com/immigration/...

Just got out of an interesting hearing before Judge Williams in Miami in the suit challenging Florida's SB 4-C, which criminalizes the entry of unauthorized migrants into the state. This is the law under which U.S. citizen Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was charged on Wednesday.

Here’s what else I was doing today. The first jury to hear a Helms-Burton Title III case started deliberating this evening. www.law360.com/florida/arti...

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

The same law that was stayed by Judge Williams a little over a week ago. Should be an interesting hearing in that case tomorrow morning.

Trump wants to move the NCLA lawsuit challenging his authority to impose tariffs from Pensacola to the Court of International Trade in New York: www.law360.com/articles/232...

We're in a full-blown constitutional crisis now. It's really hard to focus on anything else.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

This is high art

A group of 504 law firms including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm. www.law360.com/artic...

Ugh...Pensacola. And I thought having to go to Fort Pierce was bad. *Praying for remote call-in options*

In separate opinions, Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee said it would be OK for a judge to open a flight training school, and for a judge to volunteer on the subcommittee for a condominium association's board of directors. www.law360.com/artic...

In recent years, Judge Boasberg has: - ordered the release of Hillary’s emails - ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public - restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation - limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case. The resistance, he ain’t.

Story here: Trump called for the judge in the Venezuelan deportation case to be impeached as his administration escalates attacks on the judiciary. Chief Justice Roberts then issued a rare public statement condemning impeachments over rulings

Well that’s some interesting spin.