2014 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1501 - 2000 of 2019
Date: April 3, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15341
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction of robbery and firearms offenses. The court vacated defendant's conviction on Count Four, the 18 U.S.C. 924(c) charge for using and brandishing a gun in the commission of the April 11th…
Date: April 3, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11896
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 11-14864
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an inmate at the W.C. Holman Correctional Facility, was assaulted in the "back hallway" with a knife by another inmate who cut plaintiff's throat and nearly killed him. Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C.…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11173
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11369
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12418
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12733
Date: April 1, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15738
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against the Florida Secretary of State, arguing that Florida was violating the 90 Day Provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. 1973gg-6(c)(2)(A), by conducting a program to…
Date: April 1, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12584
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Alabama Power on their complaint alleging that Alabama Power unreasonably lowered the water levels of Smith Lake. Determining that Article III's…
Date: April 1, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13849
Date: March 31, 2014
Docket Number: 12-10250
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against his former employer, CRI, claiming discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq., the Age Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA),…
Date: March 31, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13533
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 10-12613
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10951
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against State Farm under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227, which provides a damages remedy for cellular-phone subscribers who received autodialed phone calls without having…
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11208
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-14743
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13210
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Numbers: 12-16020, 12-16021
Justia Opinion Summary: Heatherwood and FCB appealed the district court's affirmance of a final amended judgment entered by the bankruptcy court. The bankruptcy court determined that there was an implied restrictive covenant limiting the use of…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16265
Justia Opinion Summary: The FTC filed suit against defendants, alleging that they violated the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), 15 U.S.C. 45(a), and the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (the Telemarketing Act),…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10586
Justia Opinion Summary: The Commissioner appealed the Tax Court's grant of summary judgment to petitioner on his pro se petition for review of a tax deficiency determination. At issue was whether the Tax Court erred as a matter of law in…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10720
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11466
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11893
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13013
Justia Opinion Summary: Santander appealed the district court's affirmance of the bankruptcy court's order overruling Santander's objection to the confirmation of debtor's plan under Chapter 13. The bankruptcy court proposed that petitioner…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14145
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of FedEx on his disability discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq., and the Florida Civil…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16489
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, trustee for the estate of debtor, attempted to avoid eight transfers made by debtor to the IRS as payment for the income tax liability of debtor's principal. The bankruptcy court ruled in favor of the United…
Date: March 24, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13284
Date: March 24, 2014
Docket Number: 13-15372
Date: March 21, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14464
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against MAM, a Delaware corporation. Plaintiff was a MAM secured creditor and he held two Convertible Promissory Notes. Plaintiff's complaint alleged claims related to the Security Agreement that…
Date: March 21, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11184
Date: March 21, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11309
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's order compelling arbitration and dismissing their complaint filed against defendants. At issue was whether the arbitration agreement, which waived an employee's ability to bring a…
Date: March 20, 2014
Docket Number: 11-14774
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death. The district court later granted petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus in part and vacated his sentence only. The court concluded that the…
Date: March 20, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15866
Date: March 20, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10298
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. 2615, alleging that defendants wrongfully denied his request for eleven weeks of vacation time and terminated his employment.…
Date: March 20, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11499
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the City's Ordinance No. 2886-12, which generally prohibits targeted picketing within 50 feet of a residential dwelling. On appeal, plaintiffs challenged the…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12527
Date: March 18, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16150
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner and her husband, natives and citizens of China, sought review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's denial of petitioner's application for asylum, withholding of removal, and her husband's application for…
Date: March 18, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12502
Date: March 17, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15626
Date: March 17, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11657
Date: March 17, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12283
Date: March 17, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13994
Date: March 17, 2014
Docket Number: 13-14166
Date: March 14, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15253
Date: March 14, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15691
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of conspiracy to distribute drugs, conspiracy to launder money, and possession with intent to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin. At issue on appeal was whether the district court…
Date: March 14, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16560
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's denial of his motions for discovery and leave to amend his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, as well as the district court's determination that the U.S. Parole Commission did…
Date: March 13, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12074
Date: March 13, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12374
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16158
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, sentenced to death for the strangulation murder of a thirteen-year-old girl, appealed the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The court held that evidence of a rejected…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11318
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 11-13660
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death row inmate, appealed the denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The court granted petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability with regard to two claims of ineffective…
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11756
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11814
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11815
Date: March 10, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14794
Date: March 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10631
Date: March 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11840
Date: March 7, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16542
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. 1595, alleging that he engaged in for-profit "sex tourism" in the Amazon River Basin through his boat touring…
Date: March 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10624
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a putative class action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. 1961-68, alleging, inter alia, that Sanderson payed depressed wages to all genuinely work-authorized…
Date: March 6, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10219
Date: March 5, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14527
Justia Opinion Summary: Winn-Dixie filed suit claiming that it suffered more than $90 million in lost profits because Defendants Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Big Lots violated, and continue to violate, the restrictive covenants limiting…
Date: March 5, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10827
Date: March 5, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10891
Date: March 3, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15592
Date: March 3, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10341
Date: February 28, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15057
Date: February 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12266
Date: February 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13283
Date: February 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13944
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16217
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the Rule 12(b)(1) dismissal of her putative class action complaint brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. The court concluded that, based on the…
Date: February 25, 2014
Docket Number: 11-11273
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, appealed his sentence. The court concluded that the district court plainly erred by imposing an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal…
Date: February 25, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15334
Date: February 25, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10160
Date: February 25, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12472
Date: February 24, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15164
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Honduran citizen who suffered a back injury while employed as a mason aboard one of Carnival's ships, filed suit against Carnival in state court asserting claims of Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. 30104, negligence,…
Date: February 21, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15602
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed his sentence for illegal reentry after deportation. The court concluded that plaintiff's 2007 South Carolina conviction for the burglary of a dwelling was a "crime of violence" under U.S.S.G.…
Date: February 21, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12369
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, while incarcerated, participated in a fraudulent scheme to obtain tax refunds by using the personal information of other inmates. Defendant pleaded guilty to 41 of the 46 counts with which he was charged. On…
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Numbers: 11-10608, 11-10617, 11-10618
Justia Opinion Summary: Taxpayers, United States citizens claiming to be bona fide residents of the Virgin Islands, petitioned the Tax Court, challenging the IRS's deficiency notices. In consolidated appeals, the court reviewed the Tax Court's…
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Number: 11-10617
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Number: 11-10618
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13647
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of conspiracy to possess and for possession with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. At issue was whether the admission of a certification of the Secretary of State to…
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10916
Date: February 19, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15756
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence and conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court concluded that the evidence was sufficient to establish constructive possession of the pistol and convict defendant.…
Date: February 19, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11034
Date: February 19, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11885
Date: February 19, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12372
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14497
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10007
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10441
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10923
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13474
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed their convictions for drug and possession charges after they tried to rob a stash house based on information given to them from an undercover agent. The court concluded that the district court's…
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10260
Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor filed a Chapter 13 petition, instead of a Chapter 7 petition, only so that his attorney could be paid in installments through the proposed Chapter 13 plan. The bankruptcy court found that debtor had not filed his…
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10349
Justia Opinion Summary: The Commission appealed the district court's order preliminarily enjoining him from enforcing several provisions of the Georgia Code as preempted by Section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974…
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11531
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13134
Date: February 14, 2014
Docket Number: 14-10001
Justia Opinion Summary: Wellness filed a putative class action in state court seeking a declaration that the form language Allstate used in the class members' personal injury protection insurance policies did not clearly and unambiguously…
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: 14-10561
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit claiming that he could experience unnecessary pain when the State of Florida executed him by lethal injection. The court concluded that plaintiff had not established a substantial likelihood of…
Date: February 11, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10825
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 12-11152
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13387
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit, inter alia, under 42 U.S.C. 1983, asserting an Eighth Amendment claim against the Department and officials, alleging that they had acted with deliberate indifference by failing to provide him care…
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15989
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10230
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her mortgage lender, Wells Fargo, alleging that Wells Fargo breached the mortgage-loan contract and violated extracontractual duties by requiring her to have more flood insurance than the…
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10257
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and other checking account customers filed suit against the Bank for allegedly charging excessive overdraft fees in breach of their account agreement. The district court denied the Bank's renewed motion to…
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12216
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13565
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 14-10486
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Florida inmate scheduled to be executed, appealed the district court's denial of his pro se request for the appointment of counsel. Through his attorney, plaintiff also sought a stay of execution pending…
Date: February 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12214
Date: February 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13284
Date: February 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13325
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13110
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed their convictions for conspiracy to distribute. The court concluded that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conspiracy convictions; the court rejected Defendant Halcomb-Reeves' evidentiary…
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13179
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-16143
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, Guatemalan labor organizers, filed suit alleging that Del Monte and its subsidiaries were responsible for armed kidnapping, intimidation, and torture on a Guatemalan banana plantation in 1999. The court had…
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10150
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11551
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: 11-11266
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11830
Date: February 4, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11151
Date: February 4, 2014
Docket Number: 13-13130
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants alleging that her teenage daughter - who suffers from severe emotional, mental, and physical disabilities - was sexually assaulted by another student while in defendant's care. The…
Date: February 3, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10680
Date: February 3, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11092
Justia Opinion Summary: Offshore appealed the district court's order permitting a lone claimant to pursue personal injury claims in state court after Offshore had invoked the Limitation of Liability Act (Limitation Act), 46 U.S.C. 30501. The…
Date: January 31, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14518
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the dismissal of his federal habeas petition and the court granted him a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether the district court improperly determined that his 28 U.S.C. 2254 habeas…
Date: January 28, 2014
Docket Number: 12-12956
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants were convicted of sixteen counts of Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, conspiracy, and use and carrying of firearms during the commission of a violent crime. The court held that the good faith reliance…
Date: January 28, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14482
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence after being convicted of three counts of Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) and (b), and four other counts relating to his possession and use of firearms during those robberies. The…
Date: January 28, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12930
Date: January 24, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14186
Date: January 24, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10153
Date: January 23, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10327
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 11-13427
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence and convictions of drug and firearms charges. Defendant raised several issues on appeal. The court concluded that the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress…
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10307
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951, robbery and the commission of a Hobbs Act robbery. On appeal, defendant challenged his sentence. The court concluded that the district court…
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12024
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12351
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, as representative of the estate of his father, filed suit against several entities with whom his father, Ronald Louis Smith, Sr., recorded music in the late 1970s. The estate alleged infringement of Smith's…
Date: January 21, 2014
Docket Number: 11-13558
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of offenses stemming from his involvement in an operation of a series of companies that marketed and sold fraudulent business opportunities. Defendant raise several issues on appeal. The court…
Date: January 21, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13811
Date: January 17, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11270
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a native of Brazil, sought to adjust her immigration status to become a legal permanent resident. On appeal, plaintiff challenged the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of DHS. The court…
Date: January 16, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13809
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for assault of a federal officer that resulted in bodily injury. Because it was undisputed that defendant made physical contact with the officer, the district court did not abuse its…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 12-15132
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a federal death-row inmate, appealed the district court's denial of his petition to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. 2255. Petitioner argued that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11876
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12221
Date: January 14, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11272
Date: January 13, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12917
Date: January 10, 2014
Docket Number: 11-12897
Date: January 10, 2014
Docket Number: 11-15464
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal primarily concerns a Fourteenth Amendment challenge to various sections of the Alabama Constitution that are central to the State's system of ad valorem property taxation. Plaintiffs filed suit asserting that…
Date: January 10, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12657
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of 71 counts including murder of an Eleventh Circuit judge, petitioned for a writ of mandamus ordering the recusal of a district judge who was randomly assigned to hear his federal petition for a…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 13-10999
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11846
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 13-12179
Date: January 7, 2014
Docket Number: 11-15079
Justia Opinion Summary: The PAPER COMPANY's creditors successfully petitioned the Bankruptcy Court for relief under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Bankruptcy Court then granted the PAPER COMPANY's motion to transform the Chapter 7 case…
Date: January 7, 2014
Docket Number: 12-12565
Date: January 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-11558
Justia Opinion Summary: Chapter 2007-1 of the Laws of Florida made state-subsidized reinsurance available to Florida insurers at rates lower than those offered in the private market. Plaintiffs filed suit against Allstate alleging that it…
Date: January 7, 2014
Docket Number: 13-14116
Date: January 7, 2014
Docket Number: 14-10024
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, appealed the district court's denial of motions for a stay of execution and applied for a stay of execution with the court. Plaintiff challenged the…
Date: January 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-11126
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Harris and Stanley appealed their securities fraud convictions and sentences stemming from their role in a "pump and dump" scheme. The court concluded that Harris waived his right to counsel knowingly,…
Date: January 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-13952
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death row inmate convicted of murder, appealed the denial of his Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) Motion for Relief from Judgment, arguing that the Supreme Court's decision of Martinez v. Ryan…
Date: January 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14729
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2241 habeas petition brought under the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. 2255(e). The court vacated the district court's judgment and remanded, concluding that…
Date: January 6, 2014
Docket Number: 12-14999
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., alleging that LINA violated the disability insurance policy's terms and ERISA requirements - in part because…
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