May 6, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 10/28/2015

› Feds deliver blow to proposed Sabal Trail pipeline running through Georgia
Federal regulators outlined “very significant concerns” about the proposed route of a $3.2 billion Sabal Trail pipeline that would wind from Alabama through southwest Georgia to central Florida, raising new questions about the viability of the roughly 500-mile project.
» Read the impact statement

› Sarasota to host first Florida Craft Beer Summit
Craft beer industry members will converge on Sarasota next year for the first Florida Craft Beer Summit. The event, which is hosted by local brewer JDub's Brewing Co., will be March 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency on the bayfront.

› Tampa Bay leads the nation in number of lawyer ads on TV
Tampa Bay usually takes pride when it turns out to be No. 1 in national rankings. But to be this year's U.S. metro area most barraged by TV commercials from trial lawyers may not be what this market had in mind.

› Federal court strikes indefinite detention for mentally disabled
Florida cannot restrict the freedom of mentally disabled people without regularly reviewing their cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decided.

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