Folio Weekly celebrated 29 years in publication by honoring 29 influential Floridians. Bill Sheppard was included in their list. In Folio Weekly's own words, "we've decided to honor influential locals who stomp around, kicking ass and taking names, saving lives...
Month: April 2016
State Required To Pay Legal Fees In Gay-Marriage Fight
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle has ordered that the state pay more than $500,000 in legal fees to the ACLU of Florida, William Sheppard, Betsy White, and Samuel Jacobson who represented the Brenner plaintiffs more than a year ago in a case where the same-sex ban on...
Kevin Gay Wins Florida Bar Foundation Honor
Kevin Gay, founder and CEO of Operation New Hope, will receive the Medal of Honor, The Florida Bar Foundation's highest award for non-lawyers on June 16th. Operation New Hope was founded in 1999 to rebuild Jacksonville's challenged communities and give felons an...
Man Originally Facing 120-Year Prison Sentence Set Free
Randal Ratledge, who fired off two rounds of a gun, hitting no one, walked out of the Duval County Courthouse on Friday morning a free citizen. Originally, Ratledge was charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after firing two shots just...