2021 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1848
Date: September 2, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13992
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action alleging excessive force and municipal liability claims. Plaintiff claims that an officer stopped in front…
Date: September 2, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14674
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a cheerleader at Kennesaw State University, filed suit alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 1985(3) after she and her teammates kneeled during the pre-game national anthem at one of the university's…
Date: September 1, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14049
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, NLG sold a Fisher Island home to Hazan for $5,100,000, receiving a purchase money note and mortgage in return. The Property was then the subject of years of protracted litigation in two states, resulting in…
Date: September 1, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12578
Date: August 31, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12048
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal with prejudice of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims against the GDC and ASMP officials. The district court found that plaintiff did not properly exhaust the…
Date: August 31, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12823
Justia Opinion Summary: Officer Sullivan pulled over Braddy on I-65 in Saraland, Alabama, after seeing Braddy react to the presence of his marked patrol vehicle and observing that Braddy’s vehicle’s license tag was obscured by bicycles. During…
Date: August 31, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13604
Justia Opinion Summary: Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs (FLFNB), a nonprofit unincorporated association, advocates the message “that food is a human right, not a privilege.” FLFNB’s efforts include its weekly food sharing events in Fort…
Date: August 31, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-12991, 20-13363
Date: August 31, 2021
Docket Number: 21-11046
Date: August 30, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10538
Date: August 30, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14223
Justia Opinion Summary: During a criminal investigation into money laundering and wire fraud, the FBI obtained a search warrant to be executed at the Miami offices of entities that comprise the Optima Companies, which were located in a business…
Date: August 30, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10142
Date: August 27, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13414
Justia Opinion Summary: In Georgia, in-person voters can vote on election day or during advance voting. Absentee voters, after applying for and receiving an absentee ballot, are responsible for returning their ballots directly to the county…
Date: August 27, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13486
Date: August 27, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10761
Date: August 26, 2021
Docket Number: 18-13172
Justia Opinion Summary: In the underlying action, a citrus grove owner filed suit against defendant in Florida state court, alleging claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and an equitable accounting. Almost a year later, and…
Date: August 26, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14505
Justia Opinion Summary: Mitchell was a Duval County Jail pretrial detainee. Detective Simpson told a jail official to “obtain,” “seize,” and “confiscate and review” all of Mitchell’s incoming and outgoing mail. A mail clerk, Perkins, delivered…
Date: August 26, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11509
Justia Opinion Summary: Troy Robinson's family filed suit under federal and state law after a traffic stop that resulted in Robinson's death. Robinson, a passenger in the stopped vehicle, fled the scene on foot, ran across a busy road and…
Date: August 25, 2021
Docket Number: 19-10856
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, Hayes, age 20, violently attacked his 60-year-old neighbor without provocation or apparent motive, causing her to lapse into a coma. Hayes was later seen burning items in his backyard. Clothing recovered from…
Date: August 25, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-10563, 20-11153, 20-11235, 19-12451
Date: August 24, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13715
Justia Opinion Summary: Murugan, a member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, claims that he left Sri Lanka and entered the U.S. without authorization because of incidents involving the Sri Lankan Army. One incident involved overnight detention and…
Date: August 24, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10675
Date: August 23, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-10563, 20-11153, 20-11235, 19-12451
Date: August 23, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11472
Date: August 20, 2021
Docket Number: 18-14336
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted rehearing en banc and this is the decision of the en banc court vacating the panel opinion and remanding the case to the panel for further proceedings. The en banc court held that Supreme…
Date: August 20, 2021
Docket Number: 19-10030
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, LaTele, a Venezuelan television corporation, acting through its president, Fraiz, sued the American television network Telemundo, claiming that Telemundo infringed LaTele’s copyrighted telenovela. While the…
Date: August 20, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10071
Justia Opinion Summary: After Jeffrey West died shortly after he was released from the prison where he was being held as a pre-trial detainee, West's estate filed suit under federal and Alabama law against Escambia County and the Escambia…
Date: August 20, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11354
Justia Opinion Summary: Property owners filed suit after the Town of Redington Beach passed an ordinance that granted the public certain access to the dry sand beaches. After the lawsuit was filed, Plaintiff Fields was asked to resign from her…
Date: August 20, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-13001, 1335-06, 20676-09, 20677-09, 20678-09
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the tax court's memorandum opinion upholding adjustments contained in five notices of deficiencies (NODs) issued by the IRS against petitioner for the tax years 1999, 2000, and 2001, as well…
Date: August 19, 2021
Docket Numbers: 19-11098, 20-10474
Date: August 19, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14381
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit joined the Fourth and Sixth Circuits in holding that a sentence imposed upon the revocation of supervised release qualifies for a reduction under section 404(b) of the First Step Act when the…
Date: August 19, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13666
Justia Opinion Summary: Turner, a Wisconsin resident, filed a putative class action against Costa, an Italian cruise operator, and its American subsidiary, alleging that their negligence contributed to an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the Costa…
Date: August 18, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11419
Justia Opinion Summary: Germain was admitted to the U.S. in 2007 as a lawful permanent resident. Roughly 10 years later, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense to defraud the government, 18 U.S.C. 371, and three counts of making a…
Date: August 18, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14227
Date: August 17, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14353
Justia Opinion Summary: Johnson, who is hearing-impaired, filed two lawsuits against gas station owners, asserting failure to provide closed captioning or a similar capability that would allow him to comprehend the television media features on…
Date: August 17, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-13369, 21-10905
Date: August 17, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14841
Date: August 17, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10106
Date: August 16, 2021
Docket Numbers: 19-11723, 19-11849
Date: August 13, 2021
Docket Number: 19-11615
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted Ridgewood's petition for review of the Board's order finding that Ridgewood committed several unfair labor practices in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The court agreed…
Date: August 12, 2021
Docket Numbers: 15-15648, 15-15438, 18-14249
Justia Opinion Summary: Bradshaw was a designated pilot examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with the authority to issue an applicant an airman certificate, 49 U.S.C. 44703(a). In 2018, the FAA discovered that Bradshaw had…
Date: August 12, 2021
Docket Number: 18-12842
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and two of his children filed a 30-count pro se complaint in federal district court asserting a wide variety of constitutional, statutory, and tort claims against 18 named defendants. The district court…
Date: August 12, 2021
Docket Number: 18-13113
Justia Opinion Summary: Coats, then a convicted felon, was arrested after making several (recorded) controlled drug sales to a confidential informant (CI). Coats was housed at the Wilkinson County jail, where the CI was also in custody. Coats…
Date: August 12, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14682
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted the petition for panel rehearing, withdrew its prior opinion, and issued the following opinion. The court concluded that the ALJ gave little or no weight to three pieces of evidence in the…
Date: August 12, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12665
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, owners and operators of greyhound-racing businesses, filed suit against the Florida Attorney General, seeking a declaration that a newly enacted state law prohibiting gambling on greyhound racing is unlawful…
Date: August 11, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12230
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed her conviction for conspiring to distribute and distributing controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846, 841, and conspiring to commit and committing health care fraud, in violation of 18…
Date: August 11, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14745
Date: August 9, 2021
Docket Number: 19-11779
Date: August 9, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13692
Justia Opinion Summary: To root out police corruption in Miami, the FBI created a reverse sting operation, having agents pose as would-be drug dealers. Officer Anderson became the subject of the investigation and eventually agreed to act as a…
Date: August 9, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10573
Date: August 6, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11929
Justia Opinion Summary: EWC, which runs a nationwide beauty brand European Wax Center and holds the trademark "European Wax Center," filed suit under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), against defendant, who used…
Date: August 6, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13992
Date: August 5, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12584
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case are the terms of a recorded easement that runs with two beachfront lots in Walton County, Florida. After the County enacted an ordinance purporting to establish the public's right to use the…
Date: August 5, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-14719, 21-10132
Date: August 4, 2021
Docket Number: 18-10837
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to clarify, modify, and terminate early his term of supervised release. The court also affirmed a July 2017 sealed order, which required him…
Date: August 4, 2021
Docket Number: 18-12024
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court in light of the Court's holding that 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies when a person "accesses a computer with authorization but then obtains information located in particular areas of that…
Date: August 4, 2021
Docket Number: 19-11156
Justia Opinion Summary: A conviction under Fla. Stat. 790.23(1)(a)—which makes it unlawful for a convicted felon to "own or to have in his or her care, custody, possession, or control any firearm, ammunition, or electric weapon or device, or to…
Date: August 3, 2021
Docket Numbers: 16-16829, 17-15495
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony and was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) based on his previous drug-related convictions. The…
Date: August 3, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14420
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion. The court affirmed the district court's decision affirming the agency's finding that plaintiff was ineligible for disability…
Date: August 3, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14645
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff challenged his discharge in federal court, but the district court held that it did not have jurisdiction to hear his claims brought pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Mandamus Act…
Date: August 3, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13298
Date: August 2, 2021
Docket Number: 19-15167
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose out of a trademark dispute between two advertising and marketing companies—both of which operate under the name Pinnacle Advertising and Marketing Group. Pinnacle Illinois filed suit, and then Pinnacle…
Date: August 2, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11756
Date: August 2, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11958
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against his employer, the Sheriff of Broward County, under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the Sheriff retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment…
Date: July 30, 2021
Docket Numbers: 15-12943, 16-15080, 17-10177, 19-14309, 20-13787
Date: July 29, 2021
Docket Number: 19-11502
Date: July 29, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11365
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), alleging that various medical professionals working for the VA breached their legal duty to exercise ordinary medical care and negligently failed to diagnose…
Date: July 29, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13772
Date: July 29, 2021
Docket Number: 21-10174
Date: July 28, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14125
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Coral Ridge's complaint alleging a defamation claim against SPLC and a religious discrimination claim against Amazon. Coral Ridge alleged that SPLC is an…
Date: July 28, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13133
Date: July 27, 2021
Docket Number: 19-10562
Justia Opinion Summary: In this maritime negligence case involving a "cruise to nowhere," plaintiff filed a class action complaint against Royal Caribbean, on behalf of other similarly situated cruise ship passengers, alleging several tort…
Date: July 27, 2021
Docket Numbers: 19-14494, 19-14690, 20-10860
Date: July 26, 2021
Docket Numbers: 21-11454, 22-10072
Date: July 23, 2021
Docket Number: 18-10621
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254 brought by petitioner, alleging that the district court erred when it held that he was not prejudiced…
Date: July 23, 2021
Docket Numbers: 19-11972, 19-13019
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for sex trafficking three women, two of whom were minors when he recruited them. The district court sentenced defendant to more than five terms of life…
Date: July 22, 2021
Docket Number: 19-10267
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) sentencing enhancement to defendant's sentence after he pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.…
Date: July 21, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13214
Date: July 21, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13373
Date: July 20, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12227
Justia Opinion Summary: The en banc court held that interlocutory appeals may not be taken under the collateral order doctrine from the denials of so-called "state-action immunity" under Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341, 350-52 (1943), and its…
Date: July 20, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12716
Justia Opinion Summary: The Association sought to recover for the damage caused by Hurricane Irma from its insurer, Rockhill. After Rockhill denied coverage and the parties went to trial before a jury, the Association received a little over…
Date: July 20, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13378
Date: July 20, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14096
Date: July 19, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12238
Date: July 16, 2021
Docket Number: 18-14397
Justia Opinion Summary: Spencer sued Sheriff Benison under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that Benison violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by ordering him to remove cones and vehicles that were preventing Spencer’s neighbor from…
Date: July 16, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12620
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit held that sexual harassment—both hostile housing environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment—is actionable under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, provided the plaintiff demonstrates that she would…
Date: July 16, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12680
Date: July 15, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14233
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 18-13592
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated its previous opinion and substituted it with this opinion. This revised opinion does not reach the Title IX question and reaches only one ground under the Equal Protection Clause instead of…
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 19-11286
Justia Opinion Summary: Assuming without deciding that a general default judgment can be the basis of collateral estoppel under Florida law in an 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(2)(A) proceeding as to each of the claims asserted in a multi-count complaint,…
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14143
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's 60-month sentence for conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Although the court agreed with defendant that…
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14227
Justia Opinion Summary: After the district court entered a preliminary injunction requiring Fulton County Jail officials to provide regular out-of-cell time to female inmates with psychiatric disabilities and to improve the sanitary conditions…
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10989
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Sixt on behalf of a putative class of Sixt customers, alleging that Sixt breached its own contract with him and violated two state consumer-protection statutes. In this case, plaintiff had…
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11797
Date: July 14, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14210
Justia Opinion Summary: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281 (2020) (CARES Act), among other things, imposed a 120-day moratorium on evictions for rental properties receiving federal…
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Number: 18-11737
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for crimes related to sexual misconduct with a minor. For two months, defendant, who was 33 years old, pretended to be a 17 or 18 year old girl as he communicated…
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12001
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and 15 year sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm based on the district court's finding that he was a career criminal. The court concluded that…
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13518
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for knowingly possessing with intent to distribute a Schedule II controlled substance (approximately 2 kilograms of cocaine) in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and…
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10485
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the hotel alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. 1981, which prohibits racial discrimination in contracting. Plaintiff claimed that one of the hotel's employees falsely accused him of engaging in…
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12379
Date: July 13, 2021
Docket Numbers: 20-12448, 21-10704
Date: July 12, 2021
Docket Numbers: 19-10115, 20-14449
Date: July 12, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10452
Justia Opinion Summary: After falling during a dance competition on a cruise ship, plaintiff filed suit against NCL for negligence, alleging that her partner in the competition—a professional dancer and cruise ship employee—released her hands…
Date: July 12, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11571
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a yacht club member, filed suit against the club for discrimination and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Florida Civil Rights Act after the club refused plaintiff's request…
Date: July 12, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14025
Date: July 9, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14663
Date: July 8, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14142
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On appeal, defendant contends that his indictment was defective for two reasons: it failed to charge a complete criminal…
Date: July 8, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14276
Date: July 7, 2021
Docket Number: 18-11430
Justia Opinion Summary: Khoury lives near the school’s baseball field and complained about parking, noise, lights, and the influx of people. Khoury took photos of cars that she believed were illegally parked. Khoury and a parent had a verbal…
Date: July 7, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13126
Date: July 7, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14844
Date: July 6, 2021
Docket Number: 18-12096
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's second or successive 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion, challenging his sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). Petitioner contends…
Date: July 6, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10554
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's 57-month sentence for making false statements to a firearms dealer. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion by applying a sentencing enhancement…
Date: July 2, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14300
Date: July 1, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11743
Date: June 30, 2021
Docket Number: 17-13561
Justia Opinion Summary: An abortion facility (RHS) and its owner filed suit against the Attorney General of Alabama and the District Attorney of Montgomery County, challenging some of the amendments to Alabama's Parental Consent Act, Ala. Code…
Date: June 29, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10110
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against PNC Bank and PNC Investments for mishandling an investment account that belonged to plaintiff and her deceased mother. The district court sua sponte ordered briefing on the probate exception…
Date: June 29, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10894
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit vacated the district court's order denying plaintiffs' motion for class certification and remanded for further proceedings. Plaintiffs' action alleged that Centra Tech and some of its principals…
Date: June 25, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12133
Date: June 25, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13448
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that her former employer violated the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) by discriminating against her because of her association with her son, who suffers from severe asthma. The district…
Date: June 25, 2021
Docket Number: 21-11596
Justia Opinion Summary: The government moved to compel the testimony of an attorney who worked for the corporate body running the campaign for a former candidate for public office. The attorney sought to invoke the attorney-client privilege…
Date: June 24, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10497
Justia Opinion Summary: Belcher filed suit against its competitor, Hospira, under the Lanham Act, alleging that the labels of two of Hospira's drug products falsely implied that the products and their uses were FDA-approved, and that Hospira's…
Date: June 23, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11050
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal relates to TOT Holdings' execution of a deed that donated to Foothills Land Conservancy, a conservation easement encumbering nearly all its property. The IRS disallowed the deduction claimed by the taxpayer,…
Date: June 22, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13339
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal is whether (despite agreeing to arbitrate any dispute with their employer) final-mile delivery drivers—drivers who make local deliveries of goods and materials that have been shipped from…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 18-14044
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1994, SGV bought 547 acres in Alabaster for $1.65 million. The master development plan, approved in 1995, zoned the land as R-2 (90-foot wide single-family residences), R-4 (60-foot wide garden homes), and R-7…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 18-15251
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted the motion for panel rehearing, vacated its earlier opinion, and substituted in its place the following opinion. The court affirmed defendant's 108 month sentence imposed after he pleaded…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 19-10827
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her former employer, Alfa, alleging disability discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plaintiff contends that, although Alfa claims she was terminated…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14324
Justia Opinion Summary: Puchalski, a Wisconsin citizen, took a cruise aboard an RCL ship. While the ship was docked in Juneau, Alaska, he experienced shortness of breath and went to the ship’s infirmary. The ship’s physician prescribed…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11579
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12222
Justia Opinion Summary: In mid-2017, Felton created an “offshore entity,” FLiK, for “developing [an] online viewing platform that [would] allow[] creatives to sell/rent their projects.” To raise funds, FLiK created cryptographic “FLiK Tokens”…
Date: June 21, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14346
Date: June 17, 2021
Docket Number: 19-12019
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit granted a petition for review of the BIA's order affirming an IJ's discretionary denial of petitioner's application for asylum and grant of withholding of removal. The court concluded that when an…
Date: June 17, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14181
Justia Opinion Summary: These appeals involve several issues related to the convictions of four drug smugglers under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. Defendants were caught by the Coast Guard off the coast of the Dominican Republic and…
Date: June 17, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14567
Date: June 15, 2021
Docket Number: 18-13947
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for four counts of mail fraud, three counts of making false statements, and two counts of money laundering. In relevant part, a jury found defendant guilty of mailing…
Date: June 15, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12576
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal involving an alleged conspiracy by several state officials to violate a former physician's civil rights by pinning the blame for his patient's death on him, the district court dismissed the physician's…
Date: June 11, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13542
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed defendant's 62-month sentence for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more…
Date: June 11, 2021
Docket Number: 20-12615
Date: June 10, 2021
Docket Number: 19-13993
Date: June 9, 2021
Docket Number: 17-12493
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was attacked by his cellmate, he filed suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and five prison employees under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of…
Date: June 9, 2021
Docket Number: 19-14682
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit reversed and remanded the denial of social security disability benefits to plaintiff, who stated that he was no longer able to work due to various psychiatric conditions, which included chronic…
Date: June 9, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10594
Date: June 8, 2021
Docket Number: 18-14515
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, who seeks to knock down his beachfront mansion and to build a new one, filed suit against the town, claiming that the criteria the town's architectural review commission used to deny his building permit…
Date: June 8, 2021
Docket Number: 20-11331
Date: June 8, 2021
Docket Number: 20-14764
Date: June 7, 2021
Docket Number: 17-13384
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal without prejudice of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against the State of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), and about 42 correctional…
Date: June 7, 2021
Docket Number: 20-13853
Date: June 4, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10779
Justia Opinion Summary: After DLM licensed its private jet booking website to Fly Victor in exchange for Fly Victor's agreement to invest in increasing traffic to the site and to share booking revenues with DLM, DLM filed suit against Fly…
Date: June 3, 2021
Docket Number: 20-10249
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose out of the 2017 data privacy breach of Equifax and its affiliates. Plaintiffs and Equifax eventually settled their dispute, the district court approved the settlement, certified the settlement class,…
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