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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – Ashleigh Mitchell and David Ludwig once a couple with two children are now live apart, the courts have discovered the couple finds fault with one another. In October, Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Ludwig, accusing him of fraudulently using the identity…
Read More Tampa Father Sued, Accused of ‘Stealing’ Baby Daughter’s Identity
After receiving 180 consumer complaints directly from consumers or the Better Business Bureau, Home Performance Alliance, Inc., a Saint Petersburg compamy, was sued by the State of Florida Attorney General’s Office. Owned by Gary Delia, Home Performance Alliance, Inc. sells home improvement products and services,…
Read More ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Florida Attorney General Sues St. Pete Company
SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. – A discrimination case has hit the Pinellas County Courthouse that reads like a 1980s illicit office sex proposition. The setting is St. Petersburg’s Bert Smith Oldsmobile doing business as Bert Smith Subaru, located at 3800 34th Street North. According to online…
Read More “You Can Touch Yourself in Front of Me Whenever You Want,” Lawsuit Hits Major Auto Dealer
TAMPA, Fla. – In what may prove to be the surgery industry’s most notorious medical trials of the 21st century, another lawsuit has been filed against now-defunct Laser Spine Institute, as well as its holding company, its managed care service corporation, wealthy developer, Edward John…
Read More A Dead Horse That Won’t Die, Laser Spine Institute Sued Again
SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. – A piece of Pinellas County Clerk of Court mail, sent to an outdated address, has prompted multiple lawsuits over a convenience gas station business located at 2753 Fifth Avenue South in St. Petersburg. The commercial enterprise is located on land auctioned…
Read More “They are Making this Story Up,” Says Evicted and Sued Gas Station Owner
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Richard C. Dacosta, a Spring Hill, Pasco County, man who was arrested on August 26th, 2020, for delivering cocaine during a sting operation, has lost $4,760 in cash contraband to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. A Final Order of Forfeiture, filed…
Read More ‘Only 10% Cocaine’ Pasco County Man Loses Cash, Contraband
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Dartanya Hausburg, a former registered nurse who served in the U.S. Air Force, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. Hausburg worked in the Emergency Room and other departments of the James A. Haley VA Hospital located in…
Read More “I Can Do Whatever the F— I Want to Do!” VA Nurse Sues Hospital
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – Two tiny towns on the Gulf of Mexico – the 12th richest communities in Florida who share a zip code – are entangled in a lawsuit over none other than food and umbrellas. The story began in March 1944 when Kirkeby…
Read More “Nobody Bans Food Around Here” Town of Belleair Shore Sued
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A Tampa businessman who owns a St. Petersburg Mobil gas station located at 101 34th Street, South, has been charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Umar Farooq was working the counter of his gas station on September 12 when…
Read More “I’ll shoot and kill your a—” Gas Station Wrong Change Case, Ends in Shooting
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Another lawsuit has been filed in the Mark William Ackett “video voyeur” scandal that has rocked Bloomingdale High School in Valrico for the past year. The parent of a 15-year-old daughter who was traumatized by video sex taping that recorded her…
Read More School Board Says “Don’t Sue Us” for Teacher’s Voyeurism on School Grounds