May 11, 2017
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Wednesday dismissed suits from two Florida counties challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation's approval of $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds for a Miami-to-Orlando passenger railroad, saying the cases are moot.
January 17, 2017
Two Florida counties on Monday shot back at bids to dismiss their suits challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation's approval of $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds for a Miami-to-Orlando passenger railroad, saying the suits aren't mooted just because the approval of those bonds was replaced by another approval.
October 21, 2016
Two Florida counties urged a D.C. federal judge on Friday to vacate the U.S. Department of Transportation's approval of $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds for a Miami-to-Orlando passenger railroad, saying the agency unlawfully signed off on the bonds without evaluating the environmental and historic resource impacts of the project.
August 17, 2016
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday kept alive most claims brought by two Florida counties against the U.S. Department of Transportation's approval of a $1.75 billion bond offering for the All Aboard Florida rail project, but tossed one of the counties' Internal Revenue Code section-related claim.
March 15, 2016
Martin County, Florida, pushed back against the U.S. Department of Transportation's attempt to slough off its suit over the All Aboard Florida rail project, arguing in a D.C. federal court on Monday it has sufficiently pled that the approval process for a $1.75 billion bond offering violated the National Environmental Policy Act.
May 19, 2015
The U.S. Department of Transportation and a private rail company have asked a District of Columbia federal judge to deny a Florida county's attempt to block the company from selling $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds to fund a Miami-to-Orlando railway.