WLRN Public Media | By Joshua Ceballos
This story was originally produced by WLRN, South Florida’s only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content sharing partnership with Miami’s Community News. Read more at WLRN.org.
In a rare consolidated hearing, a panel of five county judges presided over about 210 eviction cases involving the residents of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater — all at once.
More than 100 Li’l Abner residents poured into a sixth floor courtroom in the Miami-Dade County downtown courthouse as their attorneys argued why they should not be evicted from their homes after their landlord told everyone to leave last November…