2019 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1500 of 1858
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 19-10326
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11992
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-12598, 18-14636, 20-11759
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13530
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number: 17-10676
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the tax court's judgment in favor of the IRS in an action challenging the IRS's notice of deficiency. The court held that taxpayers waived their argument that the fraud exception was…
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11151
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), alleging that RoundPoint's motion to reschedule a foreclosure sale (as opposed to canceling it altogether) violated 12 C.F.R. 1024.41(g) of…
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-12959, 20-13322
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10255
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Numbers: 15-15324, 18-13963
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11548
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction stemming from his involvement in a scheme to use a government-sponsored program to lure young women students from Kazakhstan to Florida by promising them clerical work…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-14526, 18-13842
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-10477, 20-11326
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10495
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-14813, 20-11135
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12036
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was injured on the job as a truck driver while picking up a shipment of corn at Spring Creek's facility in Georgia, he and his wife filed suit against Spring Creek. The Eleventh Circuit reversed the…
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13376
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14705
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15267
Justia Opinion Summary: Four Colombian Departments filed an ex parte joint application under 28 U.S.C. 1782 to obtain discovery in aid of a foreign proceeding. Diageo intervened and appealed the district court's grant of the section 1782…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11583
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12997
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 18-15200
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15606
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted Gerber's petition for panel rehearing and vacated its prior opinion, substituting the following opinion. In this insurance dispute case, the court held that Gerber, as assignee, lacked…
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13261
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of S&M's complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the State of Georgia. S&M alleged several constitutional and state-law violations based on…
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15572
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10040
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12749
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Numbers: 19-11268, 19-11878, 19-12026
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13678
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's order denying defendant's motion to suppress. Police officers investigating a domestic disturbance confiscated a suspect's cell phone and held it for two days before…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13934
Justia Opinion Summary: A fully nude strip club filed suit challenging the administrative action the city had taken against the club, the laws authorizing that action, and ordinances the city later enacted that regulated the fully nude strip…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10627
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12613
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14663
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Numbers: 19-11268, 19-11878, 19-12026
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 16-15302
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought review of a 2016 order entered by the Commission denying his motion to set aside a 1992 default judgment order requiring him to pay reparations plus interest to June and Louie Stidham for violations of…
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 17-12518
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10404
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11434
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court's order denying the IRS injunctive relief and remanded for further proceedings. The IRS sought a preliminary injunction against a serial employment-tax delinquent to ensure…
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number: 16-15737
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15043
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition for habeas relief. The district court granted petitioner a certificate of appealability (COA) on whether he is intellectually disabled and thus…
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13957
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number: 19-11942
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of plaintiff's emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or stay of execution. Plaintiff was convicted of murder and sentenced…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15226
Justia Opinion Summary: PlayNation filed suit against Velez for trademark infringement over the use of the Gorilla Gym mark and the district court entered judgment for PlayNation. The Eleventh Circuit held that the district court did not…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11387
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14909
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Numbers: 16-11045, 18-10736, 18-12349
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13940
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14020
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10488
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate. Petitioner, a Bahamian boat captain, pointed a firearm at passengers on the boat whom he had agreed to smuggle into the…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13513
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14148
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Numbers: 13-13953, 15-10090, 16-14870, 17-11414, 18-11716
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number: 15-14634
Justia Opinion Summary: In this fraudulent transfer case, plaintiffs filed suit in the Georgia district court to recover a judgment obtained in a Kentucky district court against a defendant who had colluded with his former wife to fraudulently…
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12820
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number: 17-12541
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15011
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1029(a)(3) and aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1028A(a)(1). At…
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15498
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Numbers: 13-11339, 13-11959, 13-12019, 13-12116, 13-12171, 13-12337, 18-13696
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11433
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14670
Justia Opinion Summary: Flat Creek filed suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration had unfairly targeted it for compliance reviews and used an unsound methodology in doing so.…
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10487
Justia Opinion Summary: After Ricky Hinkle died in the Birmingham City Jail after being shocked with a taser, his son filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging several claims on Hinkle's behalf. The district court denied the officers' motion for…
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11375
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number: 17-12349
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's restitution order after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. At issue was how to calculate the amount of restitution a possessor of child pornography, like…
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11511
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11918
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10243
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-11210, 19-14302
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11403
Justia Opinion Summary: 26 U.S.C. 6672(a) applies with equal force when a government agency receiver tells a taxpayer not to pay trust fund taxes. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for the Government…
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11909
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal from the disallowance of a taxpayer's claimed deduction for his share of losses suffered by an S corporation, the Eleventh Circuit held that monetary transfers between various business entities partly…
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Numbers: 14-14544, 14-14543
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Miami filed suit alleging that defendant institutions, major nationwide banks, carried on discriminatory lending practices that intentionally targeted black and Latino Miami residents for predatory loans. The…
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-13039, 18-13866, 19-12378, 19-12901
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-13430, 18-10498
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14976
Justia Opinion Summary: The presumption against the extraterritorial application of congressional legislation does not apply to preclude a sentencing judge from considering extraterritorial conduct which would otherwise be properly considered…
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10553
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12638
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-11652, 20-12970, 20-13637
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12193
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-14539, 17-13650, 17-13651
Justia Opinion Summary: After the SEC initiated federal proceedings against defendant, the district court appointed a receiver for one of defendant's entities. The receiver proposed a plan to collect and sell assets connected to a Ponzi scheme…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15361
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition. The court rejected petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim and held that counsel's performance in presenting…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10510
Justia Opinion Summary: A five-year statute of limitations for a defendant implicated by DNA testing, 18 U.S.C. 3297, permits indictment within five years of that testing regardless of whether the limitation period otherwise applicable to the…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11076
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14122
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of a petition under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, seeking return of father's child to Guatemala. The district court…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14885
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 16-12947
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Defendant Bechir and Kenny's convictions and sentences for seven crimes arising out of their identity theft and tax fraud operations. The court affirmed the district court's denial of…
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13073
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment in favor of defendant in an action alleging unpaid overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In this case, plaintiff alleged that her employer…
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15547
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed from her $330,000 jury verdict against Krispy Creme after an employee of Krispy Kreme rear-ended plaintiff while she was stopped at a red light. The Fourth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part,…
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11908
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14003
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12957
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Numbers: 15-10491, 18-12198, 18-14380, 20-13957
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10817
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11306
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number: 15-15080
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of correctional officers in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action brought by plaintiff, alleging excessive force and deliberate indifference claims.…
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Numbers: 16-17623, 17-12163
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's orders denying INPROTSA's petition to vacate and confirming an international arbitral award issued for Del Monte. The court had subject matter jurisdiction over the…
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13154
Justia Opinion Summary: After a government contractor, Security Walls, terminated two employees, the Board determined that the contractor violated the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed and held that the Board…
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13405
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10877
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of Hard Candy's request for a jury trial in an action under the Lanham Act. In this case, Hardy Candy sought every remedy permitted by the Act besides actual…
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12037
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13667
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number: 15-12396
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number: 16-16486
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit sua sponte vacated its previous opinion and publish this opinion in its place. This appeal involved the approval of a class action settlement against Godiva for violating the Fair and Accurate…
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15047
Justia Opinion Summary: After defendant was charged with 23 counts arising from a fraudulent scheme, he agreed to return to Russia pursuant to a settlement agreement with the government and to abandon his lawful permanent resident status in the…
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11595
Justia Opinion Summary: Fresh Results, an American company, filed suit against ASF Holland, a Dutch company, in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that ASF Holland had falsified inspection reports and fraudulently deflated the price of…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14706
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15606
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit dismissed this insurance dispute case, holding that Gerber, as assignee of the insured, did not have standing to bring a declaratory judgment class action against GEICO. In this case, the action did…
Date: April 18, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14706
Date: April 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11708
Date: April 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14016
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-13572, 17-13595
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-15720, 18-12315
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12095
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to a single count charging him with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person: an alien unlawfully in the United…
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13203
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed her sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to participation in an identity-fraud conspiracy. The Eleventh Circuit vacated defendant's sentence and held that the district court committed plain error…
Date: April 16, 2019
Docket Numbers: 13-13672, 17-13647
Date: April 16, 2019
Docket Number: 16-15690
Justia Opinion Summary: After rehearing en banc, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence and held that a police officer did not violate the Fourth Amendment when he removed a round of live ammunition…
Date: April 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13586
Date: April 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10415
Date: April 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-14356
Date: April 12, 2019
Docket Numbers: 16-14905, 17-14247
Date: April 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10767
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court's order dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition as untimely. The court held that, for the purposes of tolling under section 2244(d)(2), a petitioner's Rule 3.850…
Date: April 11, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-14468, 17-15782
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the ALJ's decision that one of the mining company's former miners was entitled to benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act. In regard to the Act's automatic…
Date: April 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12409
Date: April 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13040
Date: April 10, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13998
Date: April 10, 2019
Docket Number: 19-11268
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of plaintiff's cross-motion for summary judgment as well as its denial of plaintiff's original…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 16-16511
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's dismissal of his claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act, arising from an attempt by defendants to collect on…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11147
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing defendant's request for…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 17-15322
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11347
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's amended complaint because the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act did not give rise to a federal right enforceable under 42 U.S.C. 1983.…
Date: April 4, 2019
Docket Number: 17-10473
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Defendant was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) based on his prior…
Date: April 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11828
Date: April 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13145
Date: April 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14772
Justia Opinion Summary: After Almus Taylor died in a jail holding cell, plaintiff filed suit against the jail guards under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and Alabama law, alleging deliberate indifference to Almus's serious medical needs. The Eleventh Circuit…
Date: April 3, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10080
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the denial of his motion to suppress evidence after pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. The Eleventh Circuit held that the warrantless search of defendant's crawlspace…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14211
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment based on its finding that Kroma EU lacked standing to enforce the KROMA trademark. By Lee Tillett, Inc. was the owner and registrant of the…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14889
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff slipped and fell as he stepped down from a landing located on the outer deck of a cruise ship operated by NCL, he filed suit alleging that NCL negligently failed to warn passengers of the step down, and…
Date: March 27, 2019
Docket Numbers: 15-13997, 16-17781, 17-12057, 18-12165, 19-10535, 20-10773, 20-10783
Date: March 27, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-12427, 18-14956
Date: March 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11081
Date: March 25, 2019
Docket Number: 17-10584
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant, alleging violation of the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), violation of the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act, and breach of contract. This action arose when…
Date: March 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13635
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Numbers: 15-14347, 18-11604
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit dismissed petitioner's appeal of the district court's denial of his motions for leave to file an amended motion for appointment of independent counsel and for appointment of independent supplemental…
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-15705, 18-10514
Date: March 21, 2019
Docket Number: 15-11362
Justia Opinion Summary: On petition for rehearing, the Eleventh Circuit held, as an initial matter, that a meaningful comparator analysis must be conducted at the prima facie stage of McDonnell Douglas's burden-shifting framework, and should…
Date: March 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10710
Date: March 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13777
Date: March 20, 2019
Docket Number: 17-11961
Justia Opinion Summary: Orion filed a limitation action under the Shipowner's Limitation of Liability Act. Claimants moved to dismiss the action, arguing that Orion had received adequate notice of the claims against it more than six months…
Date: March 19, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14821
Date: March 18, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-13351, 19-10784
Date: March 18, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-10636, 18-12402
Justia Opinion Summary: In the underlying action, a death row inmate brought an as-applied challenge to Alabama's lethal injection protocol. After the inmate's case was dismissed, members of the press intervened, seeking access to the protocol.…
Date: March 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11816
Justia Opinion Summary: MSPA, a firm that obtains Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP Act) claims and brings them on behalf of Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs), filed suit against Tenet over a delayed reimbursement of $286. The Eleventh…
Date: March 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-13186
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 16-16970
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 17-13961
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-10431
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-12249
Date: March 14, 2019
Docket Number: 17-14751
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of qualified immunity to a police officer in an action brought by plaintiff, alleging that the officer used excessive force during a routine traffic stop. The…
Date: March 14, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-15628, 20-12064
Date: March 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-11562
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.