Keith Stansell and two other men who were held hostage in Colombia for more than five years are suing FARC, the Colombian paramilitary group that held them. ...more

November 14, 2009

Tommy Rassier says he was about to use a toilet stall at a Lowe's Home Improvement center in Pinellas Park last August when something terrible happened. ...more

February 9, 2009

Suck It Up, Nick Regarding "Bollea's Lawyers Fight His Isolation" (front page, June 3): ...more

June 6, 2008

The son of Councilman Tom Scott is preparing to sue the city his father represents and has hired a high-profile lawyer to help him with the case. ...more

February 12, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring resident has filed a lawsuit against a doctor who she said drugged her and performed an emergency appendectomy without her permission. Mollie A. George and her husband, Lawrence, filed paperwork at the Highlands County Courthouse last Thursday, seeking damages exceeding $15,000, against Dr. Kevin Meyer. The suit alleges that on or about Sept. 12, 2006, Mollie was experiencing abdominal pains and went to the emergency room at Highlands Regional Medical Center (HRMC), when Meyer allegedly advised her that she had appendicitis and required surgery. The suit goes on to say that at the time, Mollie was competent enough to make a decision regarding her medical care and was legally within her rights to decline treatment. ...more

January 29, 2008

Congratulations to Alberto Gonzales, who was recently named 2007 Lawyer of the Year, besting runners-up Alan Shore of "Boston Legal" and Nicky "Neck Brace" Carbone, who won a $6,200 settlement for a woman who claimed mental anguish when a can of squirt cheese exploded in her camper trailer's kitchenette. Isn't it wonderful that a small boy who was the subject of an international custody dispute in 2000, seized at gunpoint by federal agents and returned to his native Cuba amid a firestorm of controversy would be named Lawyer of the Year a mere seven years later. (Note: After Hollifield submitted his column six hours past deadline, we patiently explained that he was confusing Alberto Gonzales, former attorney general of the United States, with Elian Gonzales, the Cuban boy in the custody battle.) ...more

December 18, 2007

Congratulations to Alberto Gonzales, who was recently named 2007 Lawyer of the Year, besting runners-up Alan Shore of "Boston Legal" and Nicky "Neck Brace" Carbone, who won a $6,200 settlement for a woman who claimed mental anguish when a can of squirt cheese exploded in her camper trailer's kitchenette. ...more

December 16, 2007

As a youngster, William Paul Skelton III learned that his father had been captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. His experience as a prisoner of war, however, was a topic the family rarely discussed. ...more

September 6, 2007

As a youngster, William Paul Skelton III learned that his father had been captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. His experience as a prisoner of war, however, was a topic the family rarely discussed. ...more

September 6, 2007