2015 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1896
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14154
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14201
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit asserting claims for, among other things, unlawful arrest in violation of 42 U.S.C. 1983 and intentional infliction of emotional distress under Florida law, claiming that he was unlawfully arrested…
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-14550, 14-14551, 14-14852, 14-14853
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams of cocaine and the district court sentenced him to the mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months' imprisonment because he had two prior felony…
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15698
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Numbers: 15-10082, 15-10564
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: 15-11389
Date: September 15, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10977
Date: September 14, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12366
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of 33 crimes stemming from his receipt of federal worker’s compensation from July 2011 through March 2013. The district court calculated defendant's advisory guidelines range as 18–24 months…
Date: September 14, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10073
Date: September 11, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12429
Date: September 11, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13169
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, former student registered nurse anesthetists, filed suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., seeking to recover unpaid wages and overtime for their clinical hours. The district court…
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12156
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, and four counts of filing false individual income tax returns, in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206(1). The court concluded…
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12526
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15260
Date: September 8, 2015
Docket Number: 13-11712
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his convictions and sentences for three counts of submitting false claims, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 287, and one count of attempting to evade or defeat a tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code, in…
Date: September 8, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15013
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 924(e)(1). On appeal, defendant objected to the district court's reliance on the…
Date: September 8, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-14817, 15-12515
Date: September 8, 2015
Docket Number: 15-11195
Date: September 4, 2015
Docket Numbers: 13-15621, 14-10967
Date: September 4, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15352
Date: September 4, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15425
Date: September 4, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15571
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 11-13295
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted under 18 U.S.C. 875(c) for knowingly transmitting a threatening communication. Defendant then appealed to this court, asserting first that her indictment was deficient because it did not allege…
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14437
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, currently incarcerated in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP), filed suit alleging claims stemming from injuries he sustained during a prison riot and from…
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-10534
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11799
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12004
Justia Opinion Summary: Alabama filed suit against PCI under state and federal law to enjoin gaming at casinos owned by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and located on Indian lands within the state’s borders. The district court rejected…
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14281
Justia Opinion Summary: Ameritox and Millennium are competitors in the drug-testing industry. Ameritox filed suit against Millennium, alleging in its original complaint that Millennium had “formed a business plan to increase its market share,…
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10710
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant conditionally pled guilty to one count of manufacturing counterfeit United States currency in violation of 18 U.S.C. 471. On appeal, defendant contends that the officers who found counterfeit bills in his home…
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12966
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14360
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14993
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, originally sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment for failure to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to 24 months' imprisonment after the third revocation of his supervised release. On appeal, defendant…
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15474
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15634
Date: September 1, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14543
Justia Opinion Summary: The City filed suit against the Bank, alleging that the Bank engaged in a decade-long pattern of discriminatory lending in the residential housing market that caused the City economic harm. The City asserts a claim…
Date: September 1, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14544
Justia Opinion Summary: The City filed three separate fair housing lawsuits against Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup, alleging that each bank had engaged in a decade-long pattern of discriminatory lending by targeting minorities for…
Date: September 1, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14706
Justia Opinion Summary: The City filed three separate fair housing lawsuits against Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup, alleging that each bank had engaged in a decade-long pattern of discriminatory lending by targeting minorities for…
Date: August 31, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11106
Date: August 28, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12868
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Clarendon, alleging that Clarendon acted in bad faith in handling the claims against its insured. The district court granted Clarendon’s motion for summary judgment and subsequently entered…
Date: August 28, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12977
Date: August 28, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-14032, 17-13636
Date: August 28, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10335
Date: August 27, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10985
Date: August 27, 2015
Docket Number: 15-11064
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12294
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and the Government cross-appealed. The court affirmed the conviction, concluding that the district court did not abuse its…
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14524
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal, the court considered whether Florida’s Rental Tax and Florida’s Utility Tax, as applied to matters occurring on Seminole Tribe lands, violate the tenets of federal Indian law. The court held that…
Date: August 25, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15153
Date: August 25, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13978
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, convicted of seven felony counts of theft of public money, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641, asks the court to hold that her seven felony convictions are actually misdemeanor convictions because each separate…
Date: August 24, 2015
Docket Numbers: 12-16462, 13-10256
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a citizen of Honduras, appealed the district court's dismissal of his pro se federal habeas petition challenging his conviction for illegal reentry after deportation. The court concluded that the district…
Date: August 24, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13585
Date: August 21, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14200
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit on behalf of himself and a class of similarly situated individuals, alleging that Capital One violated certain provisions of the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. 1692–1692p,…
Date: August 21, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15630
Date: August 20, 2015
Docket Number: 14-10414
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a putative class action against DCI, alleging that DCI violated the Telephone Communications Practice Act, 47 U.S.C. 227, by sending plaintiff two text messages. The court concluded that plaintiff gave…
Date: August 20, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14661
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a negligence action against CAL, an international airline based in Trinidad and Tobago. CAL is Trinidad and Tobago’s national carrier and it is majority-owned by the Minister of Finance of Trinidad and…
Date: August 20, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15631
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against DAI, alleging claims of fraud, breach of contract, and misrepresentation. Plaintiffs also requested to vacate the arbitration award issued by the ADRC. After removal to the district court,…
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: 12-14611
Justia Opinion Summary: This court previously determined that the State of Alabama failed to sufficiently justify its decision to impose certain taxes on rail carriers, including CSX Transportation, when motor carriers and water carriers (both…
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15788
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the personal representative of Paola Penafiel, filed suit against GEICO, alleging Coblentz v. Am. Sur. Co. of N.Y. bad faith claims. On appeal, GEICO challenged the judgment in favor of plaintiff. The court…
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14048
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10532
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant challenged the district court's decision to apply the one year delay contemplated by U.S.S.G. 1B1.10(e) to his motion for a sentence reduction. The court held that the district court did not err when it applied…
Date: August 18, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14356
Date: August 18, 2015
Docket Number: 15-11806
Date: August 17, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11972
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction of three counts of tax evasion and two counts of structuring a currency transaction. The court concluded that defendant is not entitled to relief on his claim that the indictment is…
Date: August 17, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13925
Date: August 17, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15263
Date: August 17, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15701
Justia Opinion Summary: Gaston Glock, creator of the Glock 17 handgun, began divorce proceedings with his wife, Helga, in Austria in 2011. The litigation moved to the United States in 2013, where Helga filed a miscellaneous proceeding under 28…
Date: August 13, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11163
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-12481, 13-15444
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe, an eighth-grade student, filed suit against the Board and officials because she was raped in a bathroom after school officials decided to use her as bait in a sting operation to catch another eighth-grade…
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14942
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: 15-13089
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner seeks an application for leave to file a second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence. At issue was whether the decision of the Supreme Court in Johnson v. United States…
Date: August 11, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-11309, 21-13715
Date: August 10, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12568
Date: August 10, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13574
Date: August 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11853
Justia Opinion Summary: DFA filed suit against Estee Lauder after Estee Lauder refused to do business with DFA and communicated that fact to airport authorities evaluating whether to offer rental space to DFA. DFW alleged three claims in its…
Date: August 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15305
Date: August 6, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10629
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: 12-11926
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, male inmates in the custody of the ADOC, filed suit against the ADOC and others challenging the ADOC's hair-length policy on various constitutional grounds and under the Religious Land Use and…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-12198, 14-12807
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, convicted of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, appealed his sentence of 288 months in prison as substantively unreasonable. The court subsequently…
Date: August 4, 2015
Docket Numbers: 13-15858, 14-14467
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and her husband filed suit against NCL after she slipped on the pool deck of NCL's cruise ship and fractured her wrist, alleging negligence and seeking damages. The district court excluded all of the expert…
Date: August 4, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14876
Date: August 3, 2015
Docket Numbers: 12-15322, 13-10533
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated appeals, defendants challenged their convictions resulting from the first of two trials involving the same indictment and the same Medicare fraud conspiracy charges. Defendant Dr. Ward appeals her…
Date: August 3, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14376
Date: August 3, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-10721, 21-14519
Date: August 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-10797
Date: August 3, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13842
Justia Opinion Summary: Aero filed a class action in Florida state court in 2010 against defendants, alleging that defendants sent unsolicited facsimile advertisements to the putative class in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act…
Date: July 31, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14635
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, sentenced to death for murdering his wife, appealed the district court's denial of his federal habeas petition. The district court held that the petition was untimely, but that petitioner was entitled to…
Date: July 31, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12771
Date: July 31, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15261
Date: July 30, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15896
Date: July 30, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-13355, 14-13401
Justia Opinion Summary: Yellow Pages Group (YPG) appealed from a $123,000 judgment against it in favor of Yellow Pages Photos (YPPI) following a jury verdict in a copyright infringement trial. YPPI cross appealed, raising several claims of…
Date: July 28, 2015
Docket Number: 12-14009
Justia Opinion Summary: The court sua sponte vacated and reconsidered its original opinion on this matter and substituted in its place the following opinion. The State appealed the District Court’s grant of summary judgment and an injunction in…
Date: July 27, 2015
Docket Number: 14-10266
Date: July 24, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10884
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Georgia death row inmate, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that her federal due process rights were violated when the warden of the prison where she was housed ordered the prison staff not to speak…
Date: July 23, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14048
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted of terrorism-related charges for his involvement in the transfer of money to members of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, a foreign terrorist organization. The jury convicted defendant of conspiring…
Date: July 23, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14002
Justia Opinion Summary: Green Tree appealed the district court's judgment concerning an adversary proceeding that debtors filed against Green Tree in the bankruptcy court. The district court affirmed the bankruptcy court’s ruling that Green…
Date: July 23, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14428
Date: July 23, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14854
Date: July 23, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15309
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: 13-12770
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant signed a plea agreement and pled guilty to narcotics and money laundering conspiracies. Defendant subsequently appealed, alleging the ineffective assistance of counsel, that the district court violated Rule 11,…
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13361
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14115
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal stems from a dispute between Cox and PBGC over the now-defunct newspaper publisher, NJC. Florida's election-to purchase statute affords a corporation faced with a derivative suit the option to purchase the…
Date: July 21, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11711
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death row inmate, appealed the denial of his petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The court could not say that the Florida Supreme Court was unreasonable when it determined that its…
Date: July 21, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-14020, 16-16133
Date: July 21, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15747
Date: July 17, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15857
Date: July 17, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15567
Date: July 17, 2015
Docket Number: 15-10056
Date: July 16, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11408
Justia Opinion Summary: The court previously affirmed the district court’s affirmance of the bankruptcy court’s order granting debtor’s motion to strip Bank of America’s junior mortgage lien. The Supreme Court vacated the opinion and remanded…
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11239
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11494
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Phillip Morris after her husband's death, alleging claims of fraudulent concealment, conspiracy, negligence, and strict liability under Florida law. The jury found Phillip Morris…
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13535
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death row inmate, filed a motion for a certificate of appealability (COA), arguing that jurists of reason could debate whether the district court properly denied the motions he filed under Rules 60(b) and…
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15705
Date: July 14, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-14842, 16-12386
Date: July 13, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11106
Date: July 10, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11714
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendant, a wood manufacturer, alleging that wood he bought for a fence at his home was not properly pressure-treated and that it prematurely rotted. The district court dismissed plaintiff's…
Date: July 9, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-11898, 16-10816
Date: July 9, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12414
Date: July 9, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15371
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: 12-13132
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed their convictions for their participation in a scheme were defendants made secret payments to the general manager of Glades Utility Services who began directing utility subcontracts to Ener-Phase…
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14396
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies and the Sheriff's Office, alleging that deputies shot, tasered, and beat him in his own bedroom without warning or provocation…
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14996
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15237
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-10987
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11936
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-12506
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, Florida public school teachers, filed suit challenging Florida’s Student Success Act, Fla. Stat. 1012.34, as well as the Florida State Board of Education’s and three school districts’ implementation of the…
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13102
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14475
Date: July 7, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15585
Date: July 2, 2015
Docket Numbers: 13-14109, 15-14929
Date: July 2, 2015
Docket Number: 14-11789
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, parents of a child with autism and speech and language disabilities, filed suit under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1400–1482, seeking payment for an independent…
Date: July 1, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-11021, 14-11675, 17-13940
Date: June 30, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14773
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a) and subsequently appealed the district court's denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment, contending that section 2251(a),…
Date: June 30, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-13207, 14-13789
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated appeals, plaintiffs claimed that defendants breached their fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001, et seq. While the appeals were pending, the…
Date: June 30, 2015
Docket Number: 14-13715
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, debt-collection attorneys for non-party Publix, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. 1692-1692p. On appeal, plaintiff challenged the district court's…
Date: June 30, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14526
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a putative class action against defendants for breach of fiduciary duty, gross negligence, and unjust enrichment. Because this appeal depends on the resolution of an unsettled issue of Delaware law, the…
Date: June 29, 2015
Docket Number: 13-14028
Date: June 29, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14931
Date: June 26, 2015
Docket Number: 12-14937
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, sentenced to death for murder, appealed the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The court found that, although…
Date: June 26, 2015
Docket Number: 13-15228
Date: June 26, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-12879, 14-13914
Date: June 26, 2015
Docket Number: 14-14986
Date: June 26, 2015
Docket Number: 14-15395
Date: June 25, 2015
Docket Numbers: 14-12112, 14-13424
Justia Opinion Summary: Joshua Salvato's estate filed an excessive force suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for damages against a law enforcement officer in her individual capacity and the sheriff in his official capacity after Salvato was shot and…
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