Rick Scott

A federal judge in Florida granted Sen. Rick Scott’s request to file an amended complaint dismissing repeat claims made against Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and its employee Charles Littlejohn in an effort to maintain jurisdiction in Florida.

Scott, a Florida Republican, sued the technology company and Littlejohn earlier this year over Littlejohn’s leak of thousands of private tax returns to ProPublica. He may now re-brief the court on the negligence allegation he brought against Booz Allen and revoke the prior vicarious liability and invasion of privacy allegations originally raised against both parties to avoid parallel litigation, according to a Wednesday ...