2023 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: December 29, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11975
Date: December 28, 2023
Docket Numbers: 13-13877, 14-12543, 20-14058
Date: December 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11373
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the defendants, David Fey and Shari Lynn Gunter, were convicted of distributing methamphetamine and conspiring to kill and killing a…
Date: December 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13984
Date: December 26, 2023
Docket Numbers: 23-12046, 24-11368
Date: December 21, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11321
Date: December 21, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12304
Date: December 20, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12702
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The case involved Asdrubal Quijada Marin and Juan Carlos Acosta…
Date: December 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10256
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the case involved Peter Sotis, who was convicted for violating export controls. He had conspired to export diving equipment, specifically rebreathers, to…
Date: December 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12574
Date: December 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13547
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in a dispute between Travelers Property Casualty Company of America and Talcon Group LLC. Talcon, an underground utility contractor, had an insurance…
Date: December 20, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11510
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11504
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, several clients of Wyndham Vacation Resorts (Resorts) sought to arbitrate disputes with Resorts, but their petitions were rejected by the…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10210
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11414
Date: December 18, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13430
Date: December 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11072
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the United States District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) denial of a church's…
Date: December 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13323
Date: December 18, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10276
Date: December 18, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12958
Justia Opinion Summary: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit considered an appeal by Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff under President Donald Trump, who sought to move his state criminal prosecution to federal court.…
Date: December 15, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11532
Date: December 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13838
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around a defendant, Reginald McCoy, who was charged in 1990 with conspiracy to possess and possession of 50 grams or more of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute. He was convicted and sentenced…
Date: December 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11412
Date: December 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13315
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns a petition to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by a group of petitioners including a non-profit organization, a corporation that resells telecommunications services, and…
Date: December 14, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10753
Date: December 13, 2023
Docket Numbers: 17-12749, 19-13903, 23-13504
Date: December 13, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10491
Justia Opinion Summary: Doris Lapham, a former employee of Walgreen Co., filed a lawsuit against the company claiming violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Florida’s Private Sector Whistleblower Act (FWA). Lapham asserted…
Date: December 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11826
Date: December 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11980
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the court reviewed the conviction of the defendant, Jirard Kincherlow, for coercing or enticing a minor into engaging in prostitution, in violation of 18…
Date: December 12, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13245
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns an appeal by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (the "Department") against a jury's verdict in favor of Lawanna Tynes, a former employee. Tynes had sued the Department for race and sex…
Date: December 12, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12590
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the appellant, Christopher Ounjian, claimed that his employer, Globoforce, Inc., retaliated against him and forced him to resign…
Date: December 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10057
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit case involving Theresa Phillips and Legacy Cabinets, Ms. Phillips, a white woman, claimed she was fired due to racial discrimination by her supervisor,…
Date: December 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10611
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reviewed the decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia regarding a dispute over the enforceability of a restrictive…
Date: December 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11330
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a group of Florida restaurants brought a lawsuit against Sysco Jacksonville, Inc., a food distribution company. The restaurants, which include A1A Burrito…
Date: December 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11389
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dealt with the question of when an order finding contempt becomes a final, appealable order. The case arose from a dispute between Robert A.…
Date: December 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13863
Date: December 5, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11810
Date: December 4, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10538
Date: December 4, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13400
Date: December 4, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13555
Date: December 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13288
Date: December 1, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10411
Date: December 1, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13384
Date: November 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10680
Date: November 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13709
Date: November 29, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13973
Justia Opinion Summary: After the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of Kendrick Eugene Duldulao and Medardo Queg Santos for the roles they played in a Florida “pill mill,” the Supreme Court vacated the court’s judgment and remanded for…
Date: November 29, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11320
Date: November 28, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10195
Date: November 27, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14503
Justia Opinion Summary: Mercedes-Benz USA and Daimler AG have sold and leased a number of different Mercedes-Benz vehicles painted in a color called 590 Mars Red. Either due to a defect in the paint or some other reasons the paint on some of…
Date: November 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13309
Date: November 20, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10169
Date: November 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13035
Date: November 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13217
Date: November 15, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13788
Date: November 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10267
Justia Opinion Summary: In late 2018 a grand jury in Mobile, Alabama, charged Defendant with possessing a stolen firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(j). The district court allowed him to be released on bond pending trial. Defendant…
Date: November 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14083
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant as next of kin and on behalf of a minor, J.T.A., and all similarly situated minors (“Appellants”), filed a class action lawsuit against the School Board of Volusia County, Florida for allegedly violating the…
Date: November 13, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10191
Date: November 13, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10452
Date: November 13, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13170
Date: November 9, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-10305, 20-10306, 21-10335, 21-10306, 23-11047, 23-14181, 23-11375
Date: November 9, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-12788, 22-11220, 23-11886, 23-13133
Date: November 9, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11184
Date: November 8, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13756
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10713
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10894
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13686
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11056
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit certified the following two questions to the Florida Supreme Court: (1) does Fla. Stat. § 559.921(1) grant an insurance company a cause of action when a repair shop does not provide any written…
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13122
Date: November 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11187
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs s filed a class action complaint and sought to represent a class of individuals whose Healthcare Revenue tradelines had been wrongly “re-aged” by Experian. They alleged that Experian “willfully” violated its…
Date: November 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13659
Date: November 6, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10585
Date: November 3, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10528
Date: November 3, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11089
Date: November 2, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11118
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, petitioned for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and listed PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd. (“PRN”) as his primary creditor. PRN sought to exempt debts that Defendant owes PRN from being discharged. The bankruptcy…
Date: November 1, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-13256, 23-10051
Date: November 1, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-13660, 23-10609, 19-14295
Date: November 1, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13668
Date: October 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12324
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal presents the issue of whether Deputy John Allen and Sheriff Louis Roberts are entitled to qualified and state-agent immunity from Plaintiff’s complaint that he was arrested pursuant to a warrant based on a…
Date: October 31, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10727
Date: October 31, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11062
Date: October 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10231
Date: October 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12459
Date: October 30, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10616
Justia Opinion Summary: Governor DeSantis signed into law the Individual Freedom Act, also called the Stop W.O.K.E. Act. Seven professors and one student from public universities in Florida challenged the law in the district court as violative…
Date: October 27, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13092
Justia Opinion Summary: While losing in a high-stakes poker game, Defendant allegedly used his cell phone to arrange an armed robbery to reclaim his losses. Because a cell phone was directly tied to the crime, no one disputes that there was…
Date: October 27, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11129
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a black female, worked at Crestwood Hospital as an emergency department nurse from 2007 to 2018. Plaintiff repeatedly complained about racial discrimination in the months before Crestwood Healthcare terminated…
Date: October 27, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12863
Justia Opinion Summary: Artists (collectively “plaintiffs”) appealed the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the City of Miami Beach on their First Amendment claim brought against the City under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. The…
Date: October 25, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14132
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stems from a car accident that claimed the lives of four young women. The women’s estates sued the driver who rear-ended their car, for negligence. And the estates sued the driver’s employer, Discount Rock &…
Date: October 25, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11141
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a school resource officer, took issue with Plaintiff’s plan for managing her son’s afternoons and eventually sought and obtained arrest warrants for first- and second-degree child cruelty—felonies that are…
Date: October 25, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13051
Justia Opinion Summary: Subscribers who bought health insurance filed a class action against Blue Cross, alleging that it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by restricting the member plans’ ability to compete. At issue is whether the district…
Date: October 24, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10793
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff’s CPA failed to file Plaintiff’s tax returns for three consecutive years: 2014 through 2016. In 2019, the IRS assessed Plaintiff with over seventy thousand dollars in penalties for violating Section 6651(a) of…
Date: October 24, 2023
Docket Numbers: 22-14275, 22-14276
Date: October 23, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11782
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14396
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of qualified immunity following Plaintiff’s Section 1983 false arrest claim and a state law false arrest claim against two Huntsville, Alabama police officers and…
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10877
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10889
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11059
Justia Opinion Summary: These appeals are about a pending insurance contract dispute between Positano Place at Naples I Condominium Association, Inc., and Empire Indemnity Insurance Company, which issued an insurance policy (the “Policy”) to…
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11060
Date: October 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11407
Date: October 19, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12840
Date: October 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11236
Date: October 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12264
Date: October 17, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14214
Justia Opinion Summary: The case at hand is about whether Plaintiff was retaliated against by her former employer, Advanced Pharmaceutical Consultants, Inc. (“APC”), and the company that contracted with her employer, Centurion of Florida, LLC…
Date: October 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11154
Date: October 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11752
Date: October 17, 2023
Docket Number: 23-13037
Date: October 16, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11520
Justia Opinion Summary: Noble Prestige Limited lent Paul Thomas Horn $500,000 to pursue litigation against a telecommunications company. While the litigation was pending, a conservatorship over Horn’s assets was commenced in a probate court in…
Date: October 16, 2023
Docket Numbers: 23-10918, 23-12456
Date: October 16, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12766
Date: October 12, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14476
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, a group of five individuals, filed this petition for review, claiming that the FAA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) during its Phase II approval process. Petitioners assert that the…
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 20-10150
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff is an inmate in the custody and care of the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC). Plaintiff was diagnosed with Hepatitis C (HCV) in 2009 but did not receive medication for it until nine years later. By then,…
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 20-10545
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant filed liens against property owned by a slew of people he thought had wronged him—including, as relevant here, a former Commissioner of the IRS and a former Secretary of the Treasury. Defendant was thereafter…
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12947
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14275
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10002
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff became a firefighter for the City of Sanford, Florida, in 1999. At the age of 47, Plaintiff took disability retirement on November 1, 2018. When Plaintiff retired, she continued to receive free health insurance…
Date: October 11, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12666
Date: October 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11731
Justia Opinion Summary: After entering a conditional guilty plea, Defendant appealed his convictions on four counts related to child pornography. At the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Defendant was arrested on a criminal complaint on…
Date: October 10, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10173
Date: October 10, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11481
Date: October 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11966
Date: October 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13738
Justia Opinion Summary: After Plaintiff sustained serious injuries from a hot-soup spill at Noodle College Park, an Atlanta-area restaurant, she and her spouse sued Shou & Shou, Inc., which owned and operated the restaurant. Shou & Shou…
Date: October 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13875
Date: October 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10922
Justia Opinion Summary: CSX Transportation, Inc. is a freight railroad company. General Mills, Inc. operates a cereal processing plant in Georgia near one of CSX’s rail lines. A small connecting railroad connects CSX’s main rail line to General…
Date: October 5, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10017
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff worked as a hospital nurse for St. Vincent’s Health System. After St. Vincent’s fired her, Plaintiff sued, alleging race discrimination and retaliation under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. 1981. The district court…
Date: October 4, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11016
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a black nurse who was disciplined and ultimately fired by her employer, Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County—appealed the district court’s entry of summary judgment on her Title VII and state-law claims…
Date: October 4, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10858
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was hired as the Superintendent of Dothan City Schools in Dothan, Alabama. The employment contract stated Plaintiff could only be terminated for cause. Furthermore, the contract stated that the termination…
Date: October 3, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10742
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence of 20 years of imprisonment following the revocation of his probation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 3565. Defendant argued that, where the Sentencing Guidelines recommended a sentence of…
Date: October 2, 2023
Docket Numbers: 19-12418, 22-11674
Justia Opinion Summary: In this long-running property use dispute, the plaintiffs, the Thai Meditation Association of Alabama and four of its organizers (collectively, TMAA), seek to convert a property zoned for residential use into a…
Date: October 2, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10670
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant is a Pasco County, Florida, Sherriff’s Office deputy. Chris Nocco, the Pasco County Sheriff, is a codefendant. Plaintiff’s initial complaint in this case consisted of twelve counts. Plaintiff's first amended…
Date: October 2, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12743
Justia Opinion Summary: The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that Petitioner is removable as an aggravated felon and denied his requests for asylum and withholding of removal. Petitioner petitions for review, arguing that his Massachusetts…
Date: September 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10949
Justia Opinion Summary: TASER International, Inc., obtained an injunction against “Phazzer [Electronics] and its officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys; and any other persons who are in active concert or participation with Phazzer…
Date: September 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13581
Date: September 26, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14396
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought both a Section 1983 false arrest claim and a state law false arrest claim against two Huntsville, Alabama, police officers and the City itself. The district court concluded that the officers were…
Date: September 26, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12584
Date: September 26, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13296
Date: September 25, 2023
Docket Number: 20-14214
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was employed at Office Depot as a senior financial analyst. He was responsible for, among other things, ensuring data integrity. One of Ronnie’s principal duties was to calculate and report a metric called…
Date: September 25, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11026
Date: September 22, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12886
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court’s affirmance of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) denial of his claim for disability insurance benefits (DIB) and supplemental security income (SSI) following the Appeals…
Date: September 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10245
Date: September 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11143
Date: September 19, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11130
Date: September 19, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14255
Date: September 18, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-11363, 20-12054, 19-14279, 22-12968, 23-12234
Date: September 18, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10587
Justia Opinion Summary: The bankruptcy proceeding underlying this case was initiated by Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. (“Wilkes”), for relief against Fundamental Long Term Care, Inc. (“FLTCI”) on behalf of the Estate of Juanita Jackson. The Jackson…
Date: September 15, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12168
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Numbers: 17-10944, 19-11930
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Numbers: 19-14729, 22-13779
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13365
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, the grand jury indicted Petitioner for (1) armed bank robbery, (2) knowingly carrying, using, possessing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and (3) possessing a firearm as…
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10162
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs worked as detention officers for Glynn County under Sheriff Jump’s supervision. Although it is unclear from the record whether the Officers are formally deputy sheriffs, it is undisputed that they are, at…
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10168
Date: September 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11010
Date: September 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10319
Justia Opinion Summary: Zen Group, Inc., is “a Florida Medicaid provider of services to developmentally-disabled minors.” Zen Group alleges that beginning in 2018, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration wrongfully attempted to recoup…
Date: September 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11136
Date: September 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12419
Justia Opinion Summary: After eight years of litigation involving ten different parties, Continental Holdings, Inc. (Continental) appealed the district court’s denial of its November 2015 motion to voluntarily dismiss Houston Pipe Line Company,…
Date: September 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14133
Date: September 12, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12461
Date: September 12, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13390
Date: September 11, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13246
Date: September 11, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11444
Date: September 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11462
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was the Chief Meteorologist at CBS46, an Atlanta news station. But during his tenure, female colleagues raised repeated complaints that he engaged in inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment—including…
Date: September 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11809
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury found Defendant guilty of various drug crimes. Now on appeal, Defendant attacked his indictment, claiming that the grand jury’s probable cause determination was rendered defective by the district court’s special…
Date: September 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13000
Date: September 8, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11647
Date: September 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13921
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty in district court to one count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The district court sentenced Defendant in 2016 to 100 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised…
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