Jorge Barahona, 58, had been declared incompetent in March 2024 and was transferred to a mental health facility for further evaluation.

On the same day, U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman of the Southern District of Florida will retire from the bench.

A Florida judge denied conservation groups’ request to defend a whale-protection rule challenged by a boater fined for speeding near right whales.

The Justice Department is set to engage in a crucial meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, in a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2022 for her role in sex trafficking and related offenses,