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LANSING, Mich. — Republicans who voted to remove Kristina Karamo as the state party's chairwoman are now planning to ask the courts to intervene in the disagreement over who controls the Michigan GOP. Warren Carpenter, a Republican from Oakland County who has been among the most vocal critics of Karamo's leadership, said Thursday that a lawsuit will be filed in the coming days. One faction of the Michigan GOP held a special state committee meeting Saturday in Oakland County, where participants voted to unseat Karamo, a former secretary of state candidate whom delegates elected chairwoman in Fe......

MIAMI — The Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the bank accounts of a politically connected developer and accused him in a lawsuit of fleecing millions of dollars from dozens of investors in his South Florida real estate projects, as well as failing to pay more than $1 million in federal payroll taxes. The federal agency filed suit against Rishi Kapoor under seal in Miami on Dec. 27 and then quietly obtained a judge’s order freezing his bank accounts and properties to preserve his remaining assets to help pay back investors. The order, unsealed on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Ceci......

Former Florida Power & Light CEO Eric Silagy made millions selling his stock as a political scandal rocked the energy company, according to a federal court lawsuit. First reported by the Orlando Sentinel, the lawsuit alleges that current and former officers and board members of NextEra Energy, Inc., the parent company of Florida Power & Light, violated federal securities laws by making “materially false and misleading statements” related to the company’s political spending. The suit was filed in the Southern District of Florida by two investors, Sara Lewis and James Lewis. The suit, filed in O......

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted the request of Republican legislative leaders to revisit whether the courts can order the state to pay hundreds of millions to public schools. In a court order dated Oct. 20, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal filed by Sen. Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore that a trial judge lacked the jurisdiction to say the state owes schools $677.8 million. In its majority decision, Republican Associate Judge Phil Berger Jr. — the son of Sen. Berger — said many matters remain unresolved in the long-running Leandro school funding ......

PHILADELPHIA — The family of 8-year-old Fanta Bility, who was killed by police gunfire outside a high school football game in 2021, has settled its wrongful death lawsuit against the borough of Sharon Hill for $11 million. The settlement was agreed to in federal court this week, said attorney Michael T. van der Veen, a lawyer for the family. “The family has been mourning throughout this whole process,” he said Friday. “I really believe that they’re going to find some closure with the settlement. I can see it already.” The agreement resolves three lawsuits alleging that Sharon Hill failed to tr......

The oldest Millennials and all Generation Xers weren’t welcome in a rental car company’s management training program, according to a Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit filed in Fort Lauderdale federal court. That rental car company is Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida, the arm of Enterprise Holdings that operates National, Alamo, National and Enterprise car rental companies throughout Florida. A statement from Enterprise Holdings emailed to the Miami Herald on Monday countered: “Enterprise Holdings seeks and values people of all backgrounds and does not tolerate discrimination......