News Service of Florida

Keep Florida Clean raised $903,082 and the Florida Freedom Fund $196,170 from Sept. 28 through Oct. 4 in its battle against abortion and recreational marijuana measures.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, who held a hearing Monday, issued a 21-page decision denying the Upside Foods' request for a preliminary injunction. The ruling does not end the company's lawsuit.

Floridians Protecting Freedom has raised nearly $57.65 million since being formed in April 2023. It had about $12.06 million in cash on hand as of Sept. 20.

A steep enrollment drop that started in spring 2023 appears to have ended. Newly posted numbers from the state show 4.372 million people were enrolled in August, up from 4.363 million in July.

The appellate ruling was part of decades of legal wrangling about a duPont charitable trust and the nonprofit Nemours Foundation, which was created with money from the trust and provides pediatric medical care.

Contributions to Floridians Protecting Freedom from Sept. 7-13 included $5 million from Our American Future Action, a Washington, D.C.-based organization;, and $1.25 million from Planned Parenthood.

Trulieve pitched in $5 million from Sept. 7-13 ─ $92.77 million in all ─ to the Smart & Safe committee, which wants recreational marijuana legalized through a Nov. 5 ballot measure. Curaleaf kicked in another $1 million.

Attorney General Ashley Moody wanted the Florida Supreme Court to resolve a legal battle about whether local agencies could pursue lawsuits after she reached settlements with the pharmaceutical industry.

As of Sept. 6, the cannabis company had contributed $87.77 million in cash and in-kind contributions to the Smart & Safe Florida committee since 2022, a state database shows.

Tampa-based U.S. District Judge William Jung issued an injunction in July to halt the rule, which was designed to help prevent discrimination in health care programs that receive federal money.