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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 24, 2015

Billionaire Jeff Greene‘s libel suit against the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald newspapers is still on after a court-ordered mediation in the case didn’t result in a settlement. Times attorney Alison Steele, a partner in the St. Petersburg law firm of Rahdert, Steele, Reynolds & Driscoll, told FloridaPolitics.com on Tuesday that Steele also has filed an amended complaint in […]

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 […]

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

Losing side in DEO appeal wants yet another chance

Jeff Greene is continuing libel suit against Times, Herald

Appeals court sides with DEO in contract case