The recent announcement of a merger between American food industry companies Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz, has received a lot of attention in the media. While perhaps best known for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and Heinz ketchup respectively, both businesses own numerous...
When Your Life Is On The Line
Month: March 2015
Can you refuse a field sobriety test?
In a recent post, we explained the truth about field sobriety tests. If a police officer suspects that you have been drinking and driving, the officer may ask you to complete a field sobriety test to evaluate whether you are intoxicated. What happens if you...
How does Florida define “white collar crime?”
Crimes can be loosely categorized as being of two types: violent and nonviolent. Those in the latter category, which often consist of a variety of ways of depriving others of money or property, include the kinds of crimes colloquially known as "white collar" crimes....
Businesses decide to merge for a variety of reasons
In the life of a business there are often many twists and turns. This is true regardless of the nature of the business. In some cases a company will consider and possibly pursue a merge with another one. This action can be prompted by a variety of things. We will...
The Florida “fish case” and “over-criminalization”
Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court addresses questions of law that are of monumental significance on their face, such as when a criminal suspect must be informed of his or her legal rights upon arrest. On other occasions, however, the importance of a Court decision is...
Hit-and-run convictions require proof of knowledge by driver
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that drivers who get into an accident but who do not realize it cannot be convicted of leaving the scene of a crash.The case arose out of an accident that happened in Boca Raton in 2007, when a skateboarder accidentally fell into a...