SOUTH MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A South Florida family is filling a lawsuit against Miami-Dade County and a security surveillance company for failing to keep their loved one safe. Twenty-five-year-old Casanova Atwater was gunned down in the parking lot of a housing community in South Miami-Dade in March. The shooting occurred just feet away from a security camera, but investigators said, the camera was not working. The low-income community of Goulds' Arthur Mays Villas had a state-of-the-art security system with 22 cameras installed less than two years ago at taxpayer expense. "At least we would have had some justice of finding out who did this to my child," said Patricia Atwater. "You put up all of these cameras, but nobody can see nothing; your cameras don't work at all." Read … [Read more...]

By PAUL BRINKMAN, South Florida Business Journal -- Just one day after the Carnival Triumphfinally landed, Texas resident Cassie Terry filed suit in federal court in Miami. The suit alleges negligence, misrepresentation, breach of contract and fraud on the part of Carnival Cruise Lines. “Plaintiff feared for her life and safety, under constant threat of contracting serious illness by the raw sewage filling the Vessel, and suffering actual or some bodily injury,” the lawsuit states. http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/2013/02/new-lawsuit-alleges-carnival-triumph.html … [Read more...]

By ROBERT NOLIN - SUNSENTINEL.COM -- For nearly four years, the U.S. military inflicted various forms of physical and mental torture on former Broward resident and terror suspect Jose Padilla, claims a new lawsuit filed before an international human rights tribunal. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit earlier this week before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Padilla, who is serving 17 years after being convicted of providing funds and supplies to terrorist groups overseas. Padilla was initially accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in a U.S. city. The suit requests that the commission, which serves as the human rights arm of the Organization of American States, investigate the torture claims and, if proven true, recommend the U.S. formally apologize to … [Read more...]