2022 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: December 30, 2022
Docket Number: 18-13592
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, the School Board of St. Johns County (the “School Board”), is responsible for providing “proper attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the welfare of students” within the St. Johns County…
Date: December 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12985
Date: December 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14192
Date: December 30, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10789
Date: December 29, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11380
Date: December 27, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12801
Date: December 23, 2022
Docket Number: 19-15077
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner is a native and citizen of Jamaica who was admitted to the United States in 2002 and who became a lawful permanent resident in 2003. In February 2012, he pleaded guilty to and was convicted of the Georgia…
Date: December 22, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12729
Justia Opinion Summary: Norwegian Cruise Lines Ltd. obtained the injunction barring the Florida Surgeon General from enforcing a prohibition against businesses requiring proof of vaccination as a condition of service. But Norwegian recently…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11932
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13663
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff alleged that toxic chemicals used during the carpet manufacturing process have been allowed to seep into the rivers that supply drinking water to communities near Dalton, including Rome, Georgia and the rest of…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10497
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10780
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Numbers: 22-11334, 22-11978, 22-12282, 22-13008
Date: December 20, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-12204, 21-12208, 20-14707, 22-10471
Date: December 20, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10496
Date: December 20, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10659
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11074
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 22-12048
Date: December 16, 2022
Docket Number: 20-14604
Date: December 16, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13980
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs L.E., B.B., A.Z., and C.S., are students who have respiratory disabilities (“Students”). They appealed the denial of their motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. The Students sued…
Date: December 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14200
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought federal and state claims on behalf of her late husband against the Sheriff of Broward County, Florida after her husband’s 2011 arrest. The Sheriff removed the case to federal district court based on the…
Date: December 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10534
Justia Opinion Summary: North American issued two insurance policies for the life of J.C. On November 9, 2018, it issued a policy that named an irrevocable trust managed by the trustee as beneficiary. It issued a policy that named J.C.’s wife,…
Date: December 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11591
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner is a Florida prisoner serving three death sentences. After pursuing a direct appeal and postconviction relief in the Florida state courts, Petitioner filed a federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. Section…
Date: December 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13963
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Sections (1) and 924(e)(1). In support of his guilty plea, the factual proffer shows that he unlawfully possessed a loaded firearm on…
Date: December 12, 2022
Docket Number: 20-11280
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued that the district court erroneously held that a life insurance policy issued by Plaintiff Jackson National Life Insurance Company (“Jackson”) to third-party K.C., and subsequently sold by K.C. to…
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12402
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner a native and citizen of Bangladesh, seeks a review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) final order affirming the immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and…
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13934
Date: December 6, 2022
Docket Number: 19-14650
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant who pleaded guilty to attempting to possess 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute has a prior 3-point offense but does not have more than 4 criminal history points or a prior 2-point violent…
Date: December 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12158
Date: December 6, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10295
Date: December 6, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10452
Date: December 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10012
Date: December 1, 2022
Docket Number: 22-13005
Justia Opinion Summary: Former President Donald J. Trump brought a civil action seeking an injunction against the government after it executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He argues that a court-mandated special master review…
Date: November 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11428
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff as pulled over by a deputy of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for erratic driving. During the stop, the deputy noticed an open container of beer and decided to issue a warning citation. The deputy wrote—but…
Date: November 29, 2022
Docket Number: 18-11842
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff a veteran currently imprisoned by the state of Florida, sued prison and state officials under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, alleging that they violated his rights under Section 5301 by taking his VA benefits from his…
Date: November 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13458
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs sued Defendants, alleging that the title of Defendants’ series, MTV Floribama Shore, infringes on Plaintiffs’ Flora-Bama trademarks. The district court granted summary judgment to Defendants. Plaintiffs timely…
Date: November 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13573
Date: November 29, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10664
Date: November 28, 2022
Docket Number: 20-10620
Date: November 28, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10591
Date: November 25, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10458
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-12960, 20-14251
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff is a U.S. citizen and a U.S. national as that term is defined in 22 U.S.C. Section 6023(15). He claims to be the “rightful owner of an 82.5% interest in certain commercial waterfront real property in the Port…
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13558
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10281
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11314
Date: November 22, 2022
Docket Number: 19-14439
Date: November 22, 2022
Docket Number: 20-12407
Justia Opinion Summary: The Trump administration announced that it would not suspend the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (known as the “Helms-Burton Act”) for the first time since its enactment in 1996. Shortly after this…
Date: November 22, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10165
Justia Opinion Summary: On March 26, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida suspended all grand jury sessions in response to the pandemic. On August 28, 2020, while the administrative order suspending grand…
Date: November 21, 2022
Docket Number: 20-14761
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an Alabama prisoner, brought this 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 action alleging long delays in his receipt of treatment for hernias and for post-surgery complications. In his pro se third amended complaint, Plaintiff…
Date: November 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11906
Justia Opinion Summary: In January 2020, Plaintiff sued Iberostar under the Helms-Burton Act, which grants the right to sue companies trafficking in property confiscated by the Cuban government. Plaintiff claims that Cuba seized her family’s…
Date: November 21, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10297
Date: November 21, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10695
Date: November 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13469
Justia Opinion Summary: The controversy, in this case, is rooted in the propriety of a lawyer charging a wage earner a contingent attorney’s fee for prosecuting the wage earner’s Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) claims in a U.S. District…
Date: November 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10771
Justia Opinion Summary: Intervenor is a former commercial pilot who now flies a small Cessna jet for his own personal use. The intervenor landed his Cessna at the Lantana Airport. A Palm Beach County ordinance prohibits “pure turbo-jet…
Date: November 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14499
Date: November 18, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10460
Date: November 17, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14215
Date: November 17, 2022
Docket Number: 22-13781
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Numbers: 18-13071, 18-14115, 18-14292, 20-10543, 21-13002
Date: November 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-10539
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs (the Estate) appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the named Defendants. This appeal stems from the circumstances surrounding Plaintiff’s son's detention and death at the Charlotte County…
Date: November 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12696
Date: November 9, 2022
Docket Numbers: 19-13698, 20-14736, 22-11898
Date: November 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13200
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued her employer based on theories of (1) failure to accommodate in violation of the Rehabilitation Act; (2) retaliation in violation of the Rehabilitation Act; and (3) pregnancy discrimination under the…
Date: November 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10444
Date: November 8, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10227
Date: November 7, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-12143, 20-13479
Date: November 7, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-10305, 20-10306, 21-10335, 21-10306, 23-11047, 23-14181, 23-11375
Date: November 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10716
Date: November 4, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10061
Date: November 3, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11299
Justia Opinion Summary: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, appeals the district court’s denial of her Motion for Preliminary Injunctive Relief. In her…
Date: November 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-14047
Justia Opinion Summary: After Wisteria Island’s birth, Congress ceded title to all lands within three miles of the United States’s coast to the states, except for lands that were (1) “built up,” “filled in,” “or otherwise reclaimed” (2) by the…
Date: November 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14276
Date: October 31, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11000
Date: October 31, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-13098, 23-12244
Date: October 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10994
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff regularly used Roundup on his lawn for about 30 years until 2016. Around 2016, Plaintiff was diagnosed with malignant fibrous histiocytoma, which he believes was linked to the compound glyphosate, the main…
Date: October 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11187
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was sexually assaulted by a deputy sheriff in Harris County, Georgia, who’s now serving an eight-year prison term. In the part of this civil-rights lawsuit, Appellant sued Harris County and the Sheriff of…
Date: October 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13712
Date: October 27, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-12779, 21-12782
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: 20-12744
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant seeks vacatur of his 71- month sentence. He contended the government breached his plea agreement by arguing at sentencing against recommendations it allegedly promised to make to support a lower sentence than…
Date: October 25, 2022
Docket Numbers: 22-11334, 22-11978, 22-12282, 22-13008
Date: October 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14117
Date: October 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10644
Justia Opinion Summary: Over the past 25 years, Florida lawmakers have amended the state's sex-offender registration law dozens of times, making them increasingly more burdensome. Following the state's 2018 amendments to the law, Plaintiffs, a…
Date: October 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12151
Justia Opinion Summary: After a series of prolonged airport security screenings, Plaintiff filed Bivens claims against the Customs and Border Protection officers who detained him. The district court found that the officers had qualified…
Date: October 18, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-11091, 21-11505, 21-11587, 21-11714, 21-13012
Date: October 17, 2022
Docket Numbers: 19-11447, 21-13052, 22-12216
Date: October 17, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13961
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Numbers: 18-11937, 21-12096
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: 20-11656
Justia Opinion Summary: P.S. cryopreserved several sperm samples before his death. His surviving wife, Plaintiff, relied on those sperm samples and in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, P.S.S. She then sought child’s insurance benefits…
Date: October 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10242
Date: October 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10868
Date: October 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10949
Date: October 7, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11167
Date: October 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12729
Justia Opinion Summary: Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a corporation headquartered in Florida, operates cruise ships that travel around the world. Norwegian requires everyone on board its ships to be vaccinated against COVID-19. To…
Date: October 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13628
Date: October 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13937
Date: October 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14187
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-14067, 20-13730, 18-13951
Justia Opinion Summary: After the representative from Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District was appointed to serve as a cabinet secretary, the State held an out-of-cycle election to fill the seat. Plaintiffs, The Coalition for Good Governance…
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13218
Date: October 4, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-12720, 17-10203, 17-10202, 17-10200, 17-10199, 17-10198, 17-10196, 17-10195, 17-10194, 17-10193, 17-10154, 17-10153, 17-10152, 17-10151, 17-10150, 17-10148, 17-10144, 17-10143, 16-12647
Justia Opinion Summary: A.L. is an adult male diagnosed with autism. A.L. is in his late twenties, but his developmental age is “five-to-seven years old.” A.L.’s case is one of over forty actions filed by plaintiffs with disabilities against…
Date: October 4, 2022
Docket Number: 18-12147
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted by a Georgia jury of kidnapping, robbery, gang rape, and murder. The jury recommended that Petitioner be sentenced to death for his crimes. Having exhausted his state post-conviction remedies,…
Date: October 4, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10298
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court’s dismissal of his amended complaint against Carnival Corporation for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Plaintiff contended that the district…
Date: October 3, 2022
Docket Number: 15-10958
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff s required to register as a sex offender under the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (“ASORCNA” or the “Act”). Plaintiff sued the Alabama Attorney General and others, claiming…
Date: October 3, 2022
Docket Numbers: 22-10316, 20-11076
Justia Opinion Summary: In Plaintiff’s malicious prosecution claim against Defendant, a detective with the Albany Police Department, the Eleventh Circuit previously vacated an order dismissing Plaintiff’s complaint for failure to allege a…
Date: October 3, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13112
Date: October 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13687
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 17-13975
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued that the district court improperly considered as an Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) predicate offense his prior conviction for drug trafficking under Florida Statutes Section 893.135(1)(b)1. Defendant…
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Numbers: 19-14741, 22-10718
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11298
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from a legislative invocation given by an invited, guest speaker before the opening of a Jacksonville City Council meeting. A City Council member Anna Brosche, and a then-mayoral candidate, invited…
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14122
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14361
Date: September 29, 2022
Docket Number: 19-15042
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal concerns the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of Plaintiff’s amended complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under 28 U.S.C. Section 1915A—the early screening provision of…
Date: September 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11742
Justia Opinion Summary: The case-at-hand returned to the Eleventh Circuit for disposition from the Florida Supreme Court, to which the court certified three questions of Florida law. In considering the court’s certified questions, the Florida…
Date: September 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13134
Date: September 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13304
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 20-11699
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff a female employee of Wakulla County (“the County”), worked for the County’s building department. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit in federal district court for, among other claims, the County’s violation of Title VII…
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11225
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13807
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10198
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10644
Date: September 27, 2022
Docket Numbers: 18-15186, 19-12185, 21-12626, 21-13867
Date: September 27, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12405
Date: September 27, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10676
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13728
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10099
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was sentenced to death by a Florida court for the murder of a five-month-old baby. After an unsuccessful direct appeal and two rounds of state collateral proceedings, he sought habeas corpus relief in federal…
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12024
Justia Opinion Summary: The government filed a complaint against Defendant, alleging that he promoted a tax evasion scheme in which he advised his clients to claim unwarranted federal income tax deductions for bogus charitable donations. The…
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12498
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10466
Date: September 23, 2022
Docket Number: 20-10438
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed their convictions and the ensuing sentences on multiple counts arising out of their conspiracy to commit access device fraud. On appeal they argued that: (1) law enforcement agents violated their…
Date: September 22, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-11112, 21-11113, 21-11114
Date: September 22, 2022
Docket Numbers: 22-10146, 21-12873
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13311
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13586
Date: September 20, 2022
Docket Number: 20-11790
Date: September 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14005
Date: September 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11639
Date: September 16, 2022
Docket Number: 20-14814
Justia Opinion Summary: The Defendant, Evanston Insurance Company (“Evanston”), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Plaintiff Westchester General Hospital, Inc. (“Westchester”), challenging the district court’s…
Date: September 16, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10023
Date: September 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11779
Date: September 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14113
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-12200, 20-12201
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11996
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a mixed group of domestic and foreign corporations, (collectively, “the defendants”), in a product liability action stemming from a…
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10420
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11086
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22-11290
Date: September 13, 2022
Docket Numbers: 14-11309, 21-13715
Date: September 13, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13902
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner failed to report millions of dollars in income. After an audit, an IRS examiner sent him a letter that said Petitioner owed penalties on top of his back taxes. Petitioner tried to negotiate without success;…
Date: September 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13957
Date: September 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13888
Date: September 12, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10500
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Numbers: 17-11993, 19-11494, 20-14238, 21-10211
Justia Opinion Summary: For almost a decade, Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (“Chiquita”) funded a violent, paramilitary terrorist group operating in Colombia. After class certification in Cardona was denied in 2019, the Plaintiffs here…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 19-14434
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff alleged that Preferred Collection had disclosed information about his debt to a third party—the mail vendor—in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Following the revised opinion, the full…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10619
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a government investigation into an afterschool program run by Plaintiff Chabad Chayil, Inc., Defendant Miami-Dade County Public Schools (“MDCPS”) barred Chabad from continuing to use its facilities. Chabad sued…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13160
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: 19-15106
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted by a jury of transporting his three adopted daughters across state lines so that he could sexually abuse them. Defendant’s wife knew what he was doing and was convicted of aiding and abetting.…
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-10978
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff wrote and recorded the song “Everything Be Lit,” which he later copyrighted. Then Plaintiff filed suit against several parties and Think It’s a Game Records (TIG) for copyright infringement based on one of…
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-12204, 21-12208, 20-14707, 22-10471
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12997
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: 22-10255
Date: September 6, 2022
Docket Number: 19-13926
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from a massive and complex multi-district litigation proceeding based on claims—brought in part under the Torture Victim Protection Act, 28 U.S.C. Section 1350, and Colombian law—that Chiquita Brands…
Date: September 6, 2022
Docket Number: 20-12587
Date: September 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13343
Date: September 2, 2022
Docket Numbers: 20-14656, 20-14662, 20-14674, 20-14689, 20-14677
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, a group comprised of municipalities, individuals, and a nonprofit organization all based in South Florida, filed this petition for review, claiming that the FAA violated the National Environmental Protection…
Date: September 2, 2022
Docket Number: 21-14391
Date: September 1, 2022
Docket Numbers: 21-12204, 21-12208, 20-14707, 22-10471
Date: September 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-13345
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 20-12066
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13561
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs here—proposed class representatives of former employees of various Burger King franchisees—plausibly alleged that Burger King and its franchisees engaged in “concerted action” in violation of Section 1 of the…
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 20-13722
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 21-11618
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 21-12133
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Spring Valley Produce, Inc. (SVP) is a creditor of Chapter 7 debtors Nathan and Marsha Forrest (the Forrests). The Forrests owe a pre-petition debt for produce which they are seeking to discharge. SVP initiated…
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