A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ordered the sale of the Aladdin Hotel, following a non-jury trial that uncovered years of financial mismanagement and fiduciary breaches by its managers.

After a 15-month trial, a Miami-Dade judge has ruled in favor ... ruling the city’s actions violated the Florida Constitution. Judge William Thomas barred the city from arguing that the ...

In 1950, Thomas was appointed judge of the neighborhood’s Black municipal court, a segregated court, making him the first ...

Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA President James D. McQueen visits the former law office of Judge Lawson E. Thomas in Miami on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Born in Ocala, Thomas attended Florida A&M ...