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A Miami-Dade judge ordered the tenant to respond by noon Thursday to a $162,000 emergency rent-deposit demand; the tenant fired back that state law requires the court, not the landlord, to set that figure.
The California company that owns the former Regal Cinema at 1100 Lincoln Road has denied wrongdoing, raised nine affirmative defenses, and sued the museum's founders personally under a lease guaranty.
A former business partner has filed two lawsuits alleging the family used a hidden financial arrangement to push him out of a prime Alton Road property.
A medical assistant who spent nearly 18 years at a Miami Beach clinic is suing a doctor alleging years of sexual harassment, age-based insults, physical violence, and firing after she went to police.
Iconic brunch landmark Yardbird Southern Table & Bar abruptly shuttered its original Miami Beach location on August 5 — and public records show the building's owner is a Florida LLC managed by the restaurant's own founder.
Five of eleven affiliated cannabis companies headquartered at 1111 Lincoln Road filed state-law insolvency petitions on July 28, saddled with hundreds of millions in debt and blocked from federal bankruptcy by cannabis's illegal status.
Two weeks after Miami's highest-profile development fraud case became public, an amended complaint escalates it sharply — adding new defaults and defamation counts, and deepening the financial case against the developer behind the $95.75 million claim.
Investors behind a landmark Miami Beach hotel say its developer secretly moved millions in assets into family trusts and shell companies to dodge creditors — right as a coordinated three-step scheme allegedly unfolded.
In a point-by-point reply to the urologist's defenses, Mount Sinai invokes a previously undisclosed agreement it says undercuts his central theory of the case — and days later, a judge set the non-compete fight on a fast track toward a jury trial.
Italian entrepreneur and social-media celebrity Gianluca Vacchi is suing Miami developer Michael Stern for $95.75 million, alleging a Ponzi-like scheme spanning several luxury condo projects — with a hook that lands squarely in Miami Beach.
A demolition subcontractor working at the Fontainebleau Convention Center on Collins Avenue allegedly destroyed a county traffic signal during crane foundation removal, triggering a city permit freeze and a $205,000 cleanup bill now at the center of a Miami-Dade lawsuit.
The investors behind the Greystone Hotel on Collins Avenue claim their own attorneys secretly represented both sides of the deal for eight years, costing them tens of millions of dollars.