2016 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1500 of 1617
Date: May 10, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15351
Justia Opinion Summary: The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, T.I.A.S. No. 6997, 21 U.S.T. 2517, requires signatory states to recognize written arbitration agreements “concerning a subject matter capable…
Date: May 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11925
Date: May 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14510
Date: May 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14242
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence for second degree murder among other things, was granted federal habeas relief on the ground that appellate counsel had rendered ineffective assistance by failing to…
Date: May 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12329
Date: May 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13826
Date: May 4, 2016
Docket Number: 14-12139
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a state prisoner and a serial litigator in federal courts, appealed the denial of his petition to proceed in forma pauperis because it concluded that he had six strikes under the Prison Litigation Reform Act,…
Date: May 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14192
Date: May 3, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-12195, 15-12854
Date: May 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12529
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Timothy Filbeck, a lieutenant with the sheriff's office, arrested the new owner's agents of his foreclosed home. Plaintiffs, who were lawfully performing their jobs, filed suit against Filbeck and the Sheriff,…
Date: May 2, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15359
Justia Opinion Summary: An IJ found that petitioner did not have a reasonable fear of persecution or torture, that he had no basis for withholding of removal, and that he could not obtain relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The…
Date: April 29, 2016
Docket Number: 13-15476
Justia Opinion Summary: Garrity v. New Jersey held that a public employee may not be coerced into surrendering his Fifth Amendment privilege by threat of being fired or subjected to other sanctions. The principle issue on appeal is one of first…
Date: April 29, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-15342, 15-12005
Justia Opinion Summary: VRC filed suit against HHS and the Secretary, seeking the recoupment of payments VRC returned to Medicare after it was issued notice of an overpayment. At issue is the reimbursement rate of the intravitreal injection of…
Date: April 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13414
Date: April 28, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14636
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs Patterson and Breedlove filed suit against Mortgage Systems, seeking to enforce a contract between Patterson and CitiMortgage for the sale of Breedlove’s home to Patterson for a bargain basement price.…
Date: April 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11797
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Artez Hammonds was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Relevant to this appeal, petitioner invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the guilt phase of his trial and…
Date: April 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14008
Date: April 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14108
Date: April 27, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15022
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a state prisoner convicted of murder and sentenced to death, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254 based on the ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his trial, the…
Date: April 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13555
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was found guilty of three counts of producing child pornography and one count of committing those crimes while under obligation to register as a sex offender. On appeal, defendant challenged his conviction and…
Date: April 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14369
Date: April 26, 2016
Docket Number: 13-14731
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Barron-Soto and Hernandez appealed convictions stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The court concluded that the evidence obtained from the execution of the search…
Date: April 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13253
Date: April 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10224
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. At issue on appeal is a question of first impression: whether a criminal defendant must show good cause to…
Date: April 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10390
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of forcing women into prostitution and sentenced to life in prison. On remand, a different judge sentenced petitioner to 35 months of imprisonment. Three years after the trial, the United States…
Date: April 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12519
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of illegally receiving a firearm while under indictment for robbery by intimidation, and then appealed the district court's application of a four-level enhancement under USSG…
Date: April 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12986
Date: April 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14635
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a collective action against J&G under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., alleging that J&G failed to pay its truck drivers for overtime work. J&G waived its contractual right to…
Date: April 20, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10120
Date: April 20, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12591
Date: April 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12878
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Honduras, seeks review of the BIA's denial of his application for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Giving Chevron deference to the BIA's…
Date: April 19, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-13504, 15-15227, 16-17492, 20-13835
Date: April 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14316
Date: April 18, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12636
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that the Florida Supreme Court unlawfully denied her application to become a member of the Florida Bar in violation of federal bankruptcy law and her right to due process. The district court…
Date: April 15, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-14883, 16-15794, 19-10791, 19-12819, 22-10188
Date: April 15, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15222
Date: April 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14905
Date: April 12, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-10997, 15-13698
Date: April 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11103
Date: April 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14500
Date: April 11, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14882
Date: April 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11720
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction and sentence for ten counts of making false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims on his tax returns and one count of corruptly interfering with the administration of internal revenue laws.…
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14620
Justia Opinion Summary: In entertaining defendants' Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion for judgment as a matter of law after a jury trial, the district court applied the filing deadline found in the Federal Civil Rules and thus found the motion…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10270
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Jeffrey Green and Karen Hebble were each convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), and 846; and one count of conspiracy to commit…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11707
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants, retirees of the ACC, alleged that the ACC breached contractual obligations to provide health benefits to eligible retirees. The district court granted the ACC's motion for partial judgment on the pleadings.…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12119
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging disability discrimination and retaliation claims arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101, and Florida law. At issue is whether defendant discriminated…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11529
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11709
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against the VA, alleging claims of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-10653
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14680
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, convicted of knowingly accessing with intent to view child pornography, challenged the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence discovered on an HP desktop computer in his home. The court…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11335
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, serving 3 concurrent 188-month sentences, appealed the district court's dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. 2241 petition brought pursuant to the 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) savings clause. At issue is the fourth prong of the…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12322
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant's original 72-month sentence represented a downward departure from his advisory guidelines range of 87 to 108 months based on his substantial assistance to the government. The district court applied a 3-level…
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15738
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's dismissal of his pro se habeas petition as time-barred under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1). The court granted a certificate of appealability (COA) on these issues: (1) Whether the proper…
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10273
Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor declared bankruptcy in 2011 and sought to discharge his federal income tax liability for tax years 2000 through 2003. Debtor had filed Forms 1040 for those tax years many years late, and only after the IRS had…
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10506
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11747
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13169
Date: March 30, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13543
Justia Opinion Summary: Tamaz, a Saudi Arabian company, appealed the denial of its Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a default judgment against it as void for lack of service of process. Tamaz argues that the district court erred in…
Date: March 29, 2016
Docket Number: 14-13477
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, appealed the district court's denial of his first and only 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate his sentence. Petitioner asserts that his sentence is illegal…
Date: March 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11528
Date: March 28, 2016
Docket Number: 14-13288
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to charges related to his use of stolen identity information to add himself as an authorized user to other individuals’ pre-existing credit card accounts and open new accounts in the names of…
Date: March 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11771
Justia Opinion Summary: FEB filed suit against the government seeking to quiet title to a spoil island off Key West, known as Wisteria Island. Wisteria Island was formed as a result of the Navy's dredging operations. In this case, it is…
Date: March 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11772
Date: March 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12411
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11748
Justia Opinion Summary: Bersin filed suit, alleging that it had been induced into investing more than $350,000 in a BWB franchise through fraud and misrepresentations, some of which concerned OBWB’s advertising of patented technology. The court…
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12585
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the Collectors, alleging that the debt collection letter they sent her violated section 1692(g) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. 1692(g), by failing to notify her…
Date: March 24, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-14444, 15-10923
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of charges related to his role as an international sex trafficker. The government argues that the district court erred when it refused to award restitution to a victim of defendant’s sex…
Date: March 24, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14611
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was ordered removed, he remained in ICE custody from November 25, 2008 until October 21, 2009 - an amount of time greatly exceeding the 90-day statutory period for removal under the Immigration and…
Date: March 24, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11025
Date: March 24, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-11277, 15-12650
Date: March 23, 2016
Docket Numbers: 17-14459, 14-14459
Date: March 22, 2016
Docket Number: 14-10501
Date: March 22, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-13404, 17-11494
Date: March 22, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-14133, 17-11491
Date: March 21, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15650
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death-row inmate, filed a 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition, raising several challenges to his conviction and death sentence. The district court held an evidentiary hearing and found that petitioner was not…
Date: March 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11455
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, consumers from California and Texas, filed class actions against Electrolux, the manufacturer of front-loading washing machines, alleging warranty and consumer claims. Specifically, plaintiffs allege that the…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-12201, 15-12683
Date: March 17, 2016
Docket Number: 14-13722
Justia Opinion Summary: Two off-regular-duty Miami-Dade police officers were moonlighting by providing "police services" to a local bar and nightclub, Blue Martini. The officers got into an altercation with two individuals, Gustavo and Elsa…
Date: March 16, 2016
Docket Number: 13-13962
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of charges stemming from his participation in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns with stolen identities. Defendant, an Arab Muslim, argues that he was denied a fair trial after Juror…
Date: March 16, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14547
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm that traveled interstate. The district court determined that defendant's three prior armed robbery convictions were committed on separate…
Date: March 15, 2016
Docket Number: 13-11757
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of illegally possessing and making guns, appealed the district court's denial of his motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255. A pretrial intervention officer observed a bolt-action rifle in…
Date: March 15, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-11663, 15-11996
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court, these consolidated appeals challenge six actions brought by the district court to enforce summonses issued by the IRS in an investigation of DHLP and Beekman. The court remanded the case…
Date: March 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13943
Date: March 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11591
Date: March 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11673
Date: March 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13436
Date: March 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14036
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-10704, 14-13758, 16-17234, 17-11257, 21-10346
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11414
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13248
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the State Bar, alleging a due process claim under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that the State Bar’s rules applied the same standards and procedures for reinstatement for…
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13419
Date: March 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10089
Date: March 7, 2016
Docket Number: 13-13186
Justia Opinion Summary: The IRS sent petitioner a Letter 1153 (notice of proposed assessment) informing her that, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 6672(a), she - as the chief operating officer of NPRN - was personally responsible for the company’s unpaid…
Date: March 7, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-10548, 14-12070
Date: March 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11051
Date: March 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11453
Justia Opinion Summary: Rapper and philanthropist Prakazrel Michel, and founding member of the Fugees, filed a defamation suit alleging that an article published about him in the New York Post's Page Six gossip column claimed that he failed to…
Date: March 4, 2016
Docket Number: 14-11678
Date: March 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11596
Date: March 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11737
Date: March 2, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14932
Date: March 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13099
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14447
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to illegal reentry after deportation and subseuqently appealed his sentence of 120 months in prison. The district court determined that a sentence within the guideline range would not adequately…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14790
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Stiefel Labs and its president, Charles Stiefel, on several grounds, including a violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5, 15 U.S.C. 78j(b), 17 C.F.R.…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10314
Justia Opinion Summary: The court originally remanded this case to the district court for additional fact-finding to establish complete diversity of citizenship between all plaintiffs and all defendants with instructions to reenter summary…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11450
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the assignee of his mortgage after his servicer failed to provide a payoff balance. The Truth in Lending Act (TILA), 15 U.S.C. 1641(e)(1)(A), creates a cause of action against an assignee for…
Date: February 29, 2016
Docket Number: 14-11444
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a federal inmate, filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 2680, alleging that a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) official withheld wages he was owed for his work while incarcerated. Plaintiff…
Date: February 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12657
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10214
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12252
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 16-10011
Justia Opinion Summary: The court vacated its order on January 20, 2016, and replaced it with this order. Petitioner filed a pro se application for authorization to file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or…
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 14-11137
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of videotaping his teenage stepdaughter performing her daily bathroom routine, without her knowing it, over a period of five months. On appeal, defendant challenged his convictions and sentences…
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15797
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15811
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10784
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sought review of defendants' denial of plaintiff's application for naturalization under 8 U.S.C. 1421(c). The district court granted summary judgment for defendants. The court concluded that plaintiff cannot…
Date: February 24, 2016
Docket Number: 12-15548
Justia Opinion Summary: Twenty-one months after plaintiff filed an employment discrimination case against US Steel, she filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. When U.S. Steel learned of the bankruptcy case - that plaintiff's Chapter 7 petition…
Date: February 24, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12460
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the Casino, alleging unlawful gender discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and Florida law. The Seminole Tribe of…
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10091
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14530
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. 1983, against the School District and the School Board, alleging that they discriminated and retaliated against…
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12441
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-13053, 15-15548
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-13556, 14-13356, 17-13655
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15031
Date: February 18, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-12696, 14-12890, 14-13239
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated appeals, plaintiff challenged the regulations implementing the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, 42 U.S.C. 300gg-13(a), arguing that the regulations’ accommodation for nonprofit…
Date: February 18, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14085
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3604, against Aimco, on behalf of herself and her son Karl, who was born with Down Syndrome, alleging that Aimco threatened her and her son with eviction and…
Date: February 18, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-10704, 14-13758, 16-17234, 17-11257, 21-10346
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15662
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a product liability suit against Remington after her husband, Kenneth Seamon, died from a gunshot wound while deer hunting alone. Plaintiff alleged that Mr. Seamon died as a result of a defect in his…
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12278
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12920
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 14-12981
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12357
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 14-13345
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11229
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal concerns whether a Georgia statute exempts the assets in a health savings account (HSA) from inclusion in a bankruptcy estate. The court certified the following questions to the Supreme Court of Georgia: (1)…
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13240
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11583
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13929
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15435
Justia Opinion Summary: The County petitioned for review of the Board's ruling reversing the ALJ's findings and conclusions in a proceeding under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1367. The parties agreed that the Board…
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-12943, 16-15080, 17-10177, 19-14309, 20-13787
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-14385
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14167
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stems from a dispute regarding Palmer Ranch's residential development (B-10). Palmer Ranch argued that B-10’s highest and best use was residential development under a Moderate Density Residential (“MDR”) zoning…
Date: February 4, 2016
Docket Number: 14-14068
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury concluded that defendant violated the Store Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. 2701-2712, when, in accordance with her lawyer’s advice, she viewed her ex-husband's (plaintiff) emails in an effort to prove to the…
Date: February 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12075
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, M.N.'s mother, made several threats against M.N.'s father during a contentious custody battle in Venezuela. At issue is whether significant threats and violence directed against a parent can constitute a grave…
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 14-11351
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 14-15522
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner pleaded guilty to the crime of lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim who was less than 12 years old. At issue is whether a petition for a belated direct appeal, under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure…
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-15783, 15-11637
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10303
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10429
Justia Opinion Summary: Crew One refers stagehands to the producers of concerts and other live events in the Atlanta area. The Board determined that the stagehands were employees of Crew One, which gave the Board authority to regulate their…
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Number: 13-14590
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-11990, 15-12282, 17-12418
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-12093
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Peru, seeks review of the BIA's affirmance of the IJ's order of removal, finding that petitioner was ineligible for cancellation of removal because he had been convicted of an…
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-13516
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 12-12653
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a Florida prisoner, appealed the district court's dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 habeas corpus petition as second or successive under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b). The court concluded that, under the court's prior…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10320
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10771
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 11-14774
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of murder and robbery, moved the court to recall its 2014 mandate denying his petition for habeas corpus relief and to reconsider his original habeas petition after the full Court issues an en banc…
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-10963
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11262
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 13-14995
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, guilty of 35 counts arising from his role in armed robberies of fast food restaurants, appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus. The court concluded that…
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-11294
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Numbers: 14-11942, 14-12163
Justia Opinion Summary: Two separate groups brought pre-enforcement challenges to the MSHA's final rule, entitled Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors (New Dust Rule). On the first…
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 14-12482
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the City and its officers under 42 U.S.C.1983, federal maritime law, and state law, alleging that defendants seized his sailboat and destroyed it without justification and without notice. The…
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