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Jim RosicaJuly 25, 2016

A Tallahassee judge has awarded another judgment in a case over a legislatively created loan program to help companies rebound from the recession. Circuit Judge Terry Lewis on Friday granted the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) the new sum of $1.26 million against the Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida (BBIF). The department won before, but wanted its final judgment against the investment […]

Jim RosicaJune 21, 2016

A fight over a legislatively created loan program to help companies rebound from the recession will be back in court next month. On July 6, Circuit Judge Terry Lewis is set to hear a request from the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to award it more money in a case over the program. Lewis sits in Tallahassee. The department wants its final […]

Jim RosicaApril 1, 2016

The Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is asking a court to award it more money in a case stemming from a Legislature-created loan program to help companies rebound from the recession. The department asked Circuit Judge Charles Dodson of Tallahassee to amend a final judgment against the Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida (BBIF) to add prejudgment interest of $201,792 and boost the […]

Jim RosicaDecember 22, 2015

An appellate court has declined a small business lender’s request to reconsider an opinion against it involving a legislatively created loan program to help companies rebound from the recession. The 1st District Court of Appeal on Monday denied a request from the Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida for the court to rehear the case or certify it as a […]

Jim RosicaDecember 14, 2015

Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is asking an appeals court to deny a small business lender’s request to reconsider an opinion against it involving a legislatively created, post-recession loan program. The 1st District Court of Appeal had agreed with a lower court that the Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida had overcharged lenders in the Economic Gardening Business Loan Pilot […]

Jim RosicaNovember 30, 2015

An organization that bills itself as “Florida’s largest statewide small business lender” is asking an appeals court to reconsider an opinion against it. The Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida last week filed a request for a full rehearing by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal in a case involving a low-interest loan program for the state’s small businesses. On […]

Jim RosicaNovember 9, 2015

A Florida appeals court has largely upheld a ruling for the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) in a case involving a low-interest loan program for the state’s small businesses. A three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal on Monday sided with DEO on a summary judgment in a suit brought by the Black Business […]

Tag: Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida

DEO wins amended judgment in loan program lawsuit

DEO loan program case heads back to court

DEO wants more money in business-loans case

Court denies request to reconsider decision in business loan case

DEO asks court to deny rehearing in small-business loan dispute

Losing side in DEO appeal wants yet another chance

Appeals court sides with DEO in contract case