All Blog Posts Tagged 'lawsuit' (13)

The ‘Commissioner Thug’ artwork was replaced in late April with a painting of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (below) at Martin O’Boyle’s home in Gulf Stream’s Hidden Harbour neighborhood.…

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Ralf Brookes

By  Tim Pallesen

Residents alarmed by massive new rental housing projects in Boca Raton and Delray Beach turned to a Cape Coral attorney to be heard.

Ralf Brookes has filed lawsuits…

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By Tim Pallesen

A man who signed up for the swank Ocean Drive drug and alcohol recovery program just as Delray Beach erupted against it has sued the Caron Foundation.

Scott Dickenson claims he arrived from Atlanta on Dec. 18 expecting the “luxurious beachside setting” with amenities such as the house chef, yoga, paddle boarding and quiet walks on the beach that Caron advertised on its website.

Instead, Dickenson says he was housed in a west…

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Dale Sugerman

By Steve Plunkett

Former Town Manager Dale Sugerman ended the Highland Beach chapter of his career and started a new one the next day 28 miles to the north. Highland Beach commissioners grudgingly approved paying Sugerman and his…

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By Tim Pallesen

     A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop Delray Beach from enforcing its controversial transient housing ordinance against the Caron Foundation.

    U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas stopped short of ordering the city to grant Caron’s request to open a sober house at 1232 Seaspray Ave.

  But he said Delray Beach must…

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By Tim Pallesen

   The Caron Foundation can’t sue Delray Beach for denying a Seaspray Avenue sober house because the request hasn’t been officially denied, an attorney for the city argued Monday.

    The surprising twist came during a…

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Neighbors of the home Caron purchased stand in front of portraits of former Delray Beach mayors and wear white to protest the rehabilitation center’s request to turn its property into a sober house during a meeting at City Hall. Jerry Lower/The Coastal…

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By Tim Pallesen

The Caron Foundation has sued Delray Beach after the city denied its request to operate a sober house for seven recovering alcoholics and drug addicts at 1232 Seaspray Ave.

    City commissioners also had responded to outrage over sober houses near the ocean on Feb. 21 by approving three ordinances to make it more difficult for treatment providers to operate in the city.

    “The city might not like it, but our rights are well…

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By Steve Plunkett

The town has offered to settle former Town Manager Dale Sugerman’s lawsuit out of court and is waiting for his answer.

“At this point, all I can tell you is a lawsuit is going on, but…

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Kelly Barrette and Raymond Jones distribute…

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By Steve Plunkett

Coastal communities are banding with their mainland counterparts to brand as an illegal tax the county’s plan to bill municipalities for the new Inspector General’s Office.

“This suit would not challenge the vote in regard to having an inspector general. That’s water over the dam and we have an inspector general,” Town Attorney John “Skip” Randolph told Gulf Stream commissioners.

“We feel the funding is really unfair to…

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Former Town Manager Dale Sugarman

 

For an article on Town Attorney Tom Sliney resigning, click here.

 

By Steve…

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By Steve Plunkett



    If town commissioners had term limits, would there be enough candidates to fill all seven seats?

    Commissioner David Cheifetz answers yes and asked his colleagues to consider limits at their May meeting.

    “For a long time there was little turnover on the commission,” said Cheifetz, who suggested three terms as commissioner and three terms as mayor, but no more than five consecutive terms.

    Town Clerk Lisa Petersen surveyed neighboring… Continue