2020 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1500 of 1981
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 15-12744
Justia Opinion Summary: After defendant, representing himself, pleaded guilty to one charge of bank fraud and one charge of money laundering, he appealed his convictions and the district court's orders directing him to reimburse the United…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11679
Justia Opinion Summary: The en banc court overruled United States v. Sparks, 806 F.3d 1323, 1341 n.15 (11th Cir. 2015), to the extent that it holds that abandonment implicates Article III standing and is therefore a jurisdictional issue that…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13426
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for five armed bank robbery and firearm offenses. The court held that the district court did not clearly err in finding that a bank teller's identification was…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14513
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant's prior conviction for possession with intent to distribute ecstasy under O.C.G.A. 16-13-30 qualifies as a felony punishable under the Controlled Substances Act. The Eleventh Circuit denied a petition for…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11696
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit joined the Fifth and Eighth Circuits in concluding that the First Step Act does not require district courts to hold a hearing with the defendant present before ruling on a defendant's motion for a…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13723
Date: June 23, 2020
Docket Number: 17-11953
Justia Opinion Summary: After the district court upheld third-party counterclaim defendants' removal of this case from Alabama state court, the Supreme Court issued Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 139 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), which held that…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 16-11258
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14567
Justia Opinion Summary: After a pretrial detainee, Kenneth Grochowski, was killed by his cellmate, William Alexander Brooks, while both men were detained at the Clayton County Jail, Grochowski's surviving adult children filed a civil rights…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14976
Justia Opinion Summary: Warren, a manufacturer of unitary electric (UE) heaters for HVAC systems, filed suit against its competitor, Tutco and against a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL), UL. Warren's claims are based on its…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10451
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10461
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from an action brought by plaintiffs who object to the City of Lakeland's decision to relocate a Confederate monument from one city park to another, contending that the relocation violates their rights…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13915
Date: June 19, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-10115, 20-14449
Date: June 19, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-11487, 19-11940
Date: June 19, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12621
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 17-15565
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted a petition for panel rehearing of this court's opinion reversing defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The court vacated its previous opinion and substituted the…
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11296
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12656
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12924
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10094
Date: June 17, 2020
Docket Number: 15-13010
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit joined its sister circuits in holding that a district court may address a sanctions motion based on its inherent powers or 28 U.S.C. 1927 even if it lacks jurisdiction over the underlying case. The…
Date: June 17, 2020
Docket Number: 19-15166
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-11505, 19-10758, 19-11955, 19-12847
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of relief under the First Step Act of 2018 to Defendants Jones and Jackson, holding that the district court did not err in refusing to allow Jones to relitigate…
Date: June 15, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-10414, 19-11032
Date: June 15, 2020
Docket Number: 20-11622
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit held that the district court erred in issuing an injunction against the County and the Director of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitations Department (MDCR), requiring defendants to employ…
Date: June 12, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13769
Date: June 11, 2020
Docket Number: 18-10624
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court's grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained after officers, pursuant to arrest warrants, arrested defendant and his wife, secured them outside of their…
Date: June 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13670
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12239
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment in Trees's favor on his hostile work environment and national origin discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Florida…
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-14917, 19-10888
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a maritime negligence action against Carnival on her daughter's behalf after her daughter, three years old at the time, either fell over or through a guard rail on one of Carnival's cruise ships.…
Date: June 5, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14245
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against three police officers after plaintiff was shot and seriously injured while he was assisting the police apprehend a fugitive. Plaintiff alleged a section 1983 claim for…
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14037
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 18-15235
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's dismissal of petitioner's appeal from the IJ's order of removal, and denial of petitioner's motion for remand based on a claim of ineffective assistance of…
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10799
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11952
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10163
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment overruling defendant's objection to the admission of the firearm evidence. The court rejected defendant's contention that the probative value was substantially…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12088
Justia Opinion Summary: The language of 11 U.S.C. 365(p)(1) is crystal clear: "If a lease of personal property is rejected or not timely assumed by the trustee . . . the leased property is no longer property of the estate." The Eleventh…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12851
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-14065
Justia Opinion Summary: The Libertarian Party filed suit against the Secretary of State of Georgia, alleging that Georgia's ballot-access requirements for third-party and independent candidates violated their associational rights under the…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-14065, 21-13199
Date: June 1, 2020
Docket Number: 17-15585
Justia Opinion Summary: The court-appointed receiver filed suit against JPMC, seeking to recover funds that were fraudulently diverted from the Receivership Entities' bank accounts in connection with a Ponzi scheme. The complaint sought to…
Date: June 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10823
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions and sentence for distribution of methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. The court…
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-10573, 19-10577, 19-10578, 19-10583, 19-10585, 19-10586, 19-10587, 19-10589, 19-10590
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12614
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-15063
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-15099
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-12122, 19-11996
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-11644, 21-12257
Date: May 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12061
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against the city and a police officer, alleging claims for illegal seizure, unlawful search, and excessive force in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12533
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, assaulting a federal officer, discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and being a…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10553
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11178
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2018, TVPX filed an amended class action complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia against Genworth, alleging that Genworth violated the terms of one of its life insurance policies by imposing inflated "cost of…
Date: May 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12086
Date: May 21, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11927
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit against the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission and its former statewide chair. The district court…
Date: May 20, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-12004, 18-12007
Justia Opinion Summary: Compulife Software, which has developed and markets a computerized mechanism for calculating, organizing, and comparing life-insurance quotes, alleges that one of its competitors lied and hacked its way into Compulife's…
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 17-14443
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 17-14488
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her employer and its CEO for interference and retaliation under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and for retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. 1981. The…
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12457
Justia Opinion Summary: Harbourside filed suit against the town, moving for a pre-enforcement preliminary injunction against Ordinance 1-16. The ordinance, among other things, established a two-tiered scheme for the use of amplified sound at…
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13690
Justia Opinion Summary: ETS filed a trademark infringement action against Scarpello over the "Engineered Tax Services" mark under the Lanham Act. The district court held that the mark lacked distinctiveness and granted summary judgment in favor…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-13351, 19-10784
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14562
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court's order affirming the Commissioner's denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits. The court held that the ALJ did not have the benefit of the…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14817
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the tax court's decision upholding the Commissioner's disallowance of a charitable deduction for taxpayer's donation of a conservative easement over property that included a private golf…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10533
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was injured while working as a longshoreman, he filed suit against Seaboard, seeking to hold them liable under the Longshore Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA). Plaintiff fell from a walkway on the upper…
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-13351, 19-10784
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-13105, 19-14317
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Numbers: 20-10863, 20-12289, 22-10042
Date: May 11, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12699
Date: May 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10940
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against Liberty Mutual for breach of contract and bad faith under Alabama law after the insurer denied coverage for an infestation of brown recluse spiders in plaintiffs' home. The court held that…
Date: May 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13091
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for distributing furanyl fentanyl, a controlled substance analogue, in counterfeit oxycodone pills that caused the death of a 34-year-old woman. The court held that…
Date: May 7, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12311
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Number: 14-15733
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate his sentence. The court held that defendant's prior 1996 Florida convictions for robbery qualified as violent…
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Number: 17-15323
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that, given the totality of the circumstances, it was reasonable for officers, mistaking a…
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13289
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in permitting one of his arresting…
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11323
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. 2255. The court held that petitioner cannot prove that his counsel rendered ineffective assistance,…
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13757
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12325
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12443
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2241. Plaintiff alleged that President Obama commuted his "total sentence" of imprisonment, which included the 37 months of…
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 20-11622
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit stayed an injunction that was issued by the district court against the County and the Director of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitations Department (MDCR), requiring defendants to employ…
Date: May 4, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11202
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possessing a firearm and ammunition as an immigrant illegally or unlawfully in the United States. After defendant appealed his conviction and sentence, the Supreme Court issued its decision in…
Date: May 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11711
Date: May 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13222
Date: May 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12488
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for habeas relief. Petitioner alleged that his counsel rendered ineffective assistance under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668…
Date: May 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13555
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when a truck driver driving a truck owned by FST collided with two vehicles. Grange, the insurer of the truck, filed suit against the driver of one of the impacted vehicles, FST, and T&G, asking the…
Date: May 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13841
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that DISH violated the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA) in its attempts to collect debt it knew had been discharged in bankruptcy and in its direct contacts with plaintiff…
Date: April 30, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11756
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Roper Pump and its affiliated companies, alleging a claim for retaliation and race discrimination in violation of Title VII. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants. The…
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-12660, 19-12892
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-14552
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal is whether several voters and organizations have standing to challenge a law that governs the order in which candidates appear on the ballot in Florida's general elections. The voters and…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 17-11855
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to petitioner, who has been convicted and sentenced to death for murder. The court held that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reasonably…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12301
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12003
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12765
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13922
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13765
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-14637, 19-10865
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-11446, 20-10976
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11922
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13514
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 16-16492
Date: April 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-14025
Date: April 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-15176
Date: April 23, 2020
Docket Number: 20-11401
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit denied a motion for a stay of a preliminary injunction that enjoins certain applications of a public health order issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama. The public health order,…
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 17-13207
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-10184, 19-13273
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-10502
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14641
Date: April 21, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-11447, 21-13052, 22-12216
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-13271
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14687
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff asked her employer, Rural, for a temporary light-duty or dispatcher assignment for the duration of her pregnancy because her physician advised her to refrain from lifting more than 50 pounds while…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10013
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a successful guitar maker and technician, designed a lightning storm graphic that originally appeared on the guitar of Darrell Abbott, late guitarist of the heavy-metal band Pantera. This copyright…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11088
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-14077
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Numbers: 16-17179, 18-12238
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that defendants violated her Fourth Amendment rights by falsely arresting her and by unlawfully detaining her. Plaintiff also alleged state law claims for false…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 17-13602
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff tripped over the leg of a lounge chair while she was walking through a narrow pathway on a Carnival cruise ship, she filed suit alleging that Carnival negligently failed to maintain a safe walkway and…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 18-10801
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10609
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's 46 month sentence for illegally reentering the United States and 21 month sentence for violating the terms of his supervised release. The court held that the district court did…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13843
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, one of more than 30 woman who were victimized by notorious sex trafficker and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, sought mandamus relief, alleging that when federal prosecutors secretly negotiated and entered into…
Date: April 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12114
Date: April 10, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14490
Justia Opinion Summary: Borrowers filed suit alleging that Great Lakes made affirmative misrepresentations to them and other borrowers that they were on track to have their student loans forgiven based on their public-service employment when,…
Date: April 10, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13814
Date: April 9, 2020
Docket Number: 17-12410
Justia Opinion Summary: Upon reconsideration, the Eleventh Circuit sua sponte vacated its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion. The court held that defendant's private, person-to-person text messages asking an individual he…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 17-15565
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion. The court held that a conviction for making terroristic threats under O.C.G.A. 16-11-37(a) is indivisible and overbroad under Mathis…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-12536
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Bay Point in state court and added DCT as a plaintiff in an amended complaint, alleging that Bay Point's foreclosure of two properties caused him to lose the collateral's value exceeding the…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10074
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his convictions for conspiring to defraud the United States by committing mail fraud; wire fraud; and receiving, concealing, and retaining money of the United States, as well as receiving, concealing,…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13054
Date: April 7, 2020
Docket Numbers: 16-15400, 18-13698
Date: April 7, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11172
Justia Opinion Summary: BBX filed suit challenging the FDIC's determination that the severance payments BBX sought to make to five former executives of the Bank were golden parachute payments and that it would approve payments of only twelve…
Date: April 7, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12555
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10428
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12839
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11659
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11685
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-13189
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 17-14333
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Worldplay on plaintiff's claim of retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The court held that the district court…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 18-14433
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10263
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12898
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12981
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 15-15793
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 18-10565
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The court held that the state habeas court's decision as to petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim was…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-10676, 19-13789
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-10756, 17-14370
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed appellants' convictions and sentences for narcotics trafficking and firearms possession. The court held that the district court did not plainly err in allowing appellants to be shackled…
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-10801, 19-13073
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner petitioned the Eleventh Circuit a second time to review the BIA's final order of removal. The court had granted in part petitioner's first petition challenging the classification of his prior conviction for…
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10732
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-12653
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-14193
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