2025 Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: May 16, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10218
Date: May 15, 2025
Docket Number: 22-11488
Justia Opinion Summary: Curtis Solomon, Devin Chance, and Jamaur Lewis were convicted of multiple counts, including Hobbs Act conspiracy, Hobbs Act robbery, and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. Their convictions for conspiracy to…
Date: May 15, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11625
Date: May 14, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-12434, 24-12225
Date: May 14, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12489
Date: May 14, 2025
Docket Number: 25-11362
Date: May 13, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12160
Justia Opinion Summary: A Florida restaurant, Hamburger Mary’s, regularly hosted drag performances, including family-friendly shows that invited children. Following the enactment of Florida’s Senate Bill 1438, which prohibits children from…
Date: May 13, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13913
Justia Opinion Summary: Arturs Spila, a Latvian national, entered the United States in May 2018 and deposited over $284,000 in cash into three bank accounts over three months. The cash originated from a fraudulent scheme where victims were…
Date: May 12, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10690
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Santiago Alirio Gomez Rivera began working with co-conspirators in Latin America to obtain and transport cocaine for importation into the United States. Rafael Segundo Castro Diaz joined the conspiracy later,…
Date: May 12, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13008
Date: May 12, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13720
Date: May 9, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13384
Date: May 8, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-12611, 24-10174
Date: May 8, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12178
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeremy Jones was stopped by Officer David Ceinski for a traffic infraction. Jones complied with Ceinski’s instructions to exit his car and provide his driver’s license and vehicle registration. Jones also informed…
Date: May 8, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-12248, 24-12505
Date: May 8, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11059
Date: May 7, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10833
Justia Opinion Summary: A former president of Panama, while residing in the United States, was extradited to Panama under a bilateral treaty. Panama initially charged him with specific crimes, but after his extradition, he was prosecuted for…
Date: May 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10786
Date: May 5, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10900
Date: May 2, 2025
Docket Numbers: 19-13656, 24-12192
Date: May 2, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11021
Date: May 2, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12518
Justia Opinion Summary: Kepali Group procured insurance for its fleet of vehicles through an agent at Brown & Brown of Florida, with Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Company issuing a commercial automobile policy for the period from January…
Date: May 1, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-13676, 23-10439, 23-13625
Date: May 1, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10467
Date: April 30, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11972
Justia Opinion Summary: Detectives with the Fort Myers Police Department observed Alphonso Lataurean James engaging in suspected drug transactions at a gas station. James was seen wearing a cross-body bag, which he later took into a vehicle.…
Date: April 30, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13979
Justia Opinion Summary: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and others filed a lawsuit against Michael LaRocca and his associated chiropractic clinics, alleging that the clinics submitted fraudulent insurance claims for services that…
Date: April 30, 2025
Docket Number: 23-14041
Justia Opinion Summary: Robert Booker was convicted of four drug-distribution offenses and two firearm offenses, including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The case arose from a traffic stop where officers found drugs and a firearm…
Date: April 30, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10765
Justia Opinion Summary: Top Tobacco, L.P., Republic Technologies (NA), LLC, and Republic Tobacco, L.P. sued Star Importers & Wholesalers, Inc., and its president, Amin Hudda, for selling counterfeit TOP® and JOB® cigarette rolling papers.…
Date: April 28, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12590
Date: April 25, 2025
Docket Number: 22-14159
Justia Opinion Summary: Davion Rivers was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced to 188 months in prison. Rivers appealed, arguing that the district court erred in denying his motions to suppress evidence and in…
Date: April 24, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10717
Date: April 24, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10263
Justia Opinion Summary: Bidi Vapor LLC filed a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020 for its tobacco-flavored electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) product, the Bidi Stick –…
Date: April 23, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-10801, 23-11273, 23-11274
Justia Opinion Summary: Several adult-entertainment establishments and individual dancers in Jacksonville, Florida, challenged a city ordinance that effectively prohibits erotic dancers under the age of 21 from performing in adult-entertainment…
Date: April 23, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12440
Date: April 23, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10139
Justia Opinion Summary: Bruce Henry, who pled guilty to possessing child pornography in 2013, challenged Alabama Code § 15-20A-11(d)(4), which prohibits adult sex offenders convicted of a sex offense involving a child from residing or…
Date: April 22, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10992
Date: April 22, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12237
Date: April 21, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12776
Date: April 18, 2025
Docket Numbers: 21-14424, 23-14236
Date: April 18, 2025
Docket Number: 22-12675
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a shooting incident at the Pride of St. Lucie Lodge 1189, Inc. (the "Lodge") on March 2, 2015, where Tanya Oliver was shot in the forehead and later died from her injuries. The Lodge was insured by…
Date: April 17, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10814
Justia Opinion Summary: On Thanksgiving night in 2018, Officer David Alexander, a policeman with the City of Hoover, was on foot patrol at the Galleria Mall in Birmingham, Alabama. During a suspected active shooting situation, Officer Alexander…
Date: April 16, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11080
Justia Opinion Summary: Jaime Vargas and Francis R. Alvarez, former employees of medical supplier Lincare, Inc., and its subsidiary Optigen, Inc., filed a qui tam complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA). They alleged that Optigen engaged in…
Date: April 15, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10858
Justia Opinion Summary: A class of incarcerated juvenile offenders in Florida, all sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole under a now-defunct sentencing scheme, sued the Commissioners of the Florida Commission on Offender…
Date: April 15, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11572
Date: April 14, 2025
Docket Number: 22-12966
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, Congress enacted the Helms-Burton Act to allow U.S. nationals to seek compensation for property confiscated by the Castro regime in Cuba. Odette Blanco de Fernandez and her siblings' heirs and estates alleged…
Date: April 14, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12229
Date: April 14, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10900
Date: April 11, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11759
Justia Opinion Summary: Christin Bilotti was convicted of second-degree murder in Florida state court. After exhausting her appeals, she sought postconviction relief in Florida, which was denied. Bilotti then filed a federal habeas petition,…
Date: April 10, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11670
Justia Opinion Summary: Several college volleyball players accused their coach of physical, verbal, psychological, and sexual abuse. The players alleged that the coach engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse, including inappropriate…
Date: April 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12278
Date: April 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13036
Date: April 9, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-11312, 23-12708
Date: April 9, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10287
Date: April 8, 2025
Docket Number: 22-10709
Justia Opinion Summary: Jordan Pulido developed an online relationship with a 14-year-old Croatian girl, I.G., and, with the help of his father, Roberto Jimenez, traveled to Croatia to have sex with her. They later brought her to the United…
Date: April 8, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-11037, 23-12475
Date: April 8, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-11037, 23-12475
Date: April 8, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11163
Date: April 7, 2025
Docket Number: 22-13763
Justia Opinion Summary: Sara Watts, an African American woman, sued her former homeowners’ association, Joggers Run Property Owners Association (HOA), alleging racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Civil Rights Act.…
Date: April 4, 2025
Docket Numbers: 20-11141, 22-13776
Justia Opinion Summary: Pemco and Boeing entered into a contractual "teaming arrangement" to bid for a 2008 Air Force contract, which included a master agreement, a work share agreement, and a non-disclosure agreement. The relationship soured,…
Date: April 4, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-13110, 24-13056, 24-13058, 24-13060
Date: April 4, 2025
Docket Number: 22-13569
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves an FBI investigation into Jeffrey Alan Siegmeister, the State Attorney for the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida, and Marion Michael O'Steen, a defense attorney. The investigation began after Andy Tong,…
Date: April 4, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12496
Date: April 3, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11714
Justia Opinion Summary: Ronald Rubin filed a lawsuit naming Kimberly Grippa as part of a criminal enterprise. His lawyer sent allegedly defamatory letters to state officials, asking them to investigate the alleged criminal enterprise and…
Date: April 3, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13385
Date: April 3, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11434
Date: April 2, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12109
Date: April 2, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10488
Date: April 1, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-13390, 24-13836
Date: April 1, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11418
Date: April 1, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12341
Date: April 1, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10563
Date: April 1, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10580
Date: March 31, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11825
Date: March 31, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12985
Justia Opinion Summary: Dr. Jeffery D. Milner, a physician, brought a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Baptist Health Montgomery, Prattville Baptist, and Team Health. Milner alleged that while working at a hospital owned…
Date: March 28, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11614
Justia Opinion Summary: Kh’Lajuwon Murat was released from prison and began his supervised release. The government petitioned the district court to revoke his supervised release due to seven alleged violations, including failing to submit…
Date: March 28, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13699
Date: March 28, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10580
Date: March 26, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13025
Date: March 25, 2025
Docket Numbers: 21-11008, 24-11030
Date: March 25, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10215
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2000, Reginald Bertram Johnson abducted and raped 14-year-old C.A. at gunpoint. Following the assault, C.A. was examined by Dr. Scott Silla at a rape treatment center, where biological specimens were collected. Eight…
Date: March 25, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11683
Justia Opinion Summary: Several plaintiffs, including United States Sugar Corporation, Okeelanta Corporation, and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, challenged the United States Army Corps of Engineers' approval of the Everglades…
Date: March 21, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-11593, 23-11595
Date: March 21, 2025
Docket Number: 24-14185
Date: March 21, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10439
Date: March 20, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12826
Justia Opinion Summary: The appellants, Madhu Sudhan Kanapuram and Swathi Pillarisetty, are Indian citizens legally residing in the United States on temporary employment-based visas. They filed Form I-485 applications for adjustment of status…
Date: March 19, 2025
Docket Number: 22-13764
Justia Opinion Summary: Johnathan Morris was pulled over by a Miami police officer after running a stop sign, leading to a brief car chase. Upon stopping, officers found controlled substances on Morris and two firearms with ammunition in his…
Date: March 19, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10344
Date: March 19, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10397
Justia Opinion Summary: Fu Jing Wu and Wai Lam set up investment funds for foreign investors, promising opportunities to immigrate to the United States through the EB-5 visa program. They fraudulently diverted millions of dollars from these…
Date: March 18, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11211
Justia Opinion Summary: A catastrophic turbine failure occurred at the Hadjret En Nouss Power Plant in Tipaza, Algeria. The plant is owned by Shariket Kahraba Hadjret En Nouss (SKH), which is jointly owned by the Algerian government and…
Date: March 18, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10726
Date: March 18, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11728
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff, Afaf Beshay Malak, applied for disability insurance benefits (DIB) in 2021, citing several disabilities including pinched nerves, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and chronic headaches. Her application was…
Date: March 18, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10148
Date: March 14, 2025
Docket Number: 21-12314
Date: March 14, 2025
Docket Numbers: 21-12333, 23-10678
Justia Opinion Summary: Brian Albert, a bank compliance officer, sought certification as a money-laundering examiner by taking an exam administered by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Due to his anxiety and…
Date: March 14, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11984
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the Organization of Professional Aviculturists, Inc. and the Lineolated Parakeet Society, who sought to import two captive-bred parrot species, the Cactus conure and the green form of the Lineolated…
Date: March 14, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10578
Date: March 14, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13607
Date: March 13, 2025
Docket Number: 22-12971
Justia Opinion Summary: Federal law enforcement officials used a confidential source to make controlled drug purchases from Roderick White, who identified Roshawn Jermaine Davis as his supplier. The FBI, through White, purchased drugs from…
Date: March 13, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11400
Justia Opinion Summary: Edward Burrell, an inmate at Clarke County Jail, suffered a heart attack while serving a sentence. Chief Deputy Sheriff and Jail Administrator Tyler Norris drove Burrell to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance…
Date: March 13, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11951
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1977, Steven Schreck escaped from an Oregon prison and assumed the identity of a deceased man, Eugene Sandburg. Schreck acquired a passport using Sandburg’s identity and continued to use this identity for decades,…
Date: March 13, 2025
Docket Number: 25-10683
Justia Opinion Summary: Edward Thomas James, a Florida inmate sentenced to death, raped and strangled eight-year-old Toni Neuner and murdered Betty Dick by stabbing her in front of her grandchild. He then stole Dick’s belongings and car,…
Date: March 12, 2025
Docket Number: 22-13609
Date: March 12, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10385
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs, January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, allege that the Leon County School Board and its officials violated their parental due-process rights. The dispute arose when school officials met with the Littlejohns'…
Date: March 12, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10543
Date: March 11, 2025
Docket Numbers: 19-14147, 20-10237, 21-13587, 22-11313, 22-11590, 22-13207
Date: March 11, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-12830, 22-13438, 23-10146, 21-11400
Date: March 11, 2025
Docket Number: 22-14031
Justia Opinion Summary: A voter in Sarasota County, Florida, who is not affiliated with any political party, challenged Florida's closed primary election system. He argued that the system forces him to either join a political party to have a…
Date: March 11, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-14136, 24-12674
Date: March 10, 2025
Docket Numbers: 21-12710, 22-10403
Justia Opinion Summary: In January 2021, Moises Sotelo was indicted for receiving and possessing child pornography. He used the social media app LiveMe to trade images of child pornography, including material involving prepubescent minors and…
Date: March 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10705
Date: March 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12136
Date: March 10, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12541
Date: March 7, 2025
Docket Number: 22-14274
Justia Opinion Summary: Gray Television, a broadcaster in Alaska, sought review of a final forfeiture order by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC had imposed the maximum forfeiture penalty on Gray for violating the prohibition…
Date: March 6, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11249
Date: March 5, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-11944, 22-14102
Date: March 5, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11508
Date: March 5, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12398
Justia Opinion Summary: Marvin Laguna Rivera, a Nicaraguan citizen, petitioned for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order affirming the Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and…
Date: March 5, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-12715, 23-12835
Justia Opinion Summary: Kaufman Lynn Construction was hired to build a corporate campus for JM Family Enterprises in South Florida. Kaufman obtained a commercial general liability policy from Liberty Surplus Insurance to cover itself and its…
Date: March 5, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11615
Date: March 4, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10865
Date: March 4, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10433
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11302
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11438
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 24-11459
Date: March 3, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13689
Date: February 28, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11700
Justia Opinion Summary: Stevenson Charles engaged in a series of violent crimes against gay men in Miami, Florida, while on probation. Using the dating app Grindr, he lured victims to locations where he brandished a firearm, forced them into…
Date: February 28, 2025
Docket Number: 24-14227
Date: February 27, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13753
Justia Opinion Summary: Chanon Miller was arrested by deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office for simple battery against her ex-fiancé. She subsequently sued the Sheriff’s Office and unnamed deputies, alleging violations of her…
Date: February 25, 2025
Docket Number: 23-11132
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Chapman, an Alabama inmate, sued prison officials and staff for deliberate indifference to his medical needs, violating the Eighth Amendment. Chapman alleged that an untreated ear infection led to severe…
Date: February 24, 2025
Docket Number: 22-13327
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeffrey Horn, a former registered stockbroker, was convicted by a jury in April 2022 of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and securities fraud. The district court sentenced…
Date: February 21, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-11678, 23-12283
Date: February 21, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13404
Date: February 21, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-13961, 24-11961
Date: February 21, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10730
Date: February 20, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13444
Date: February 20, 2025
Docket Number: 24-12948
Date: February 19, 2025
Docket Number: 24-10320
Date: February 19, 2025
Docket Number: 24-13349
Date: February 18, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-12077, 22-13554
Justia Opinion Summary: Two defendants, Antonio Lemus and Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar, were convicted of cocaine-related charges under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA). Lemus was apprehended on December 30, 2021, when U.S. Coast…
Date: February 18, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12550
Justia Opinion Summary: James Wilson III used earplugs manufactured by Hearos, LLC at a shooting range and subsequently suffered significant hearing loss. He filed a lawsuit against Hearos in state court, alleging various tort claims.…
Date: February 14, 2025
Docket Numbers: 24-10133, 24-11240
Date: February 13, 2025
Docket Numbers: 22-12800, 22-12809, 22-12843
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the appeals of Rolando Williamson, Hendarius Archie, Ishmywel Gregory, and Adrien Taylor, who were convicted of various drug distribution and conspiracy charges. Williamson argued that the district…
Date: February 13, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13379
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Horton, an Alabama prisoner, filed a pro se lawsuit against two correctional officers, alleging that they subjected him to an unconstitutional body-cavity search. Horton claimed that during an institution-wide…
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-12161
Date: February 6, 2025
Docket Number: 23-13577
Justia Opinion Summary: Tim Daniels, a commercial fisherman in Florida, challenged the constitutionality of regulations by Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) that restrict where and how Florida-registered vessels can…
Date: February 5, 2025
Docket Number: 23-14113
Date: February 4, 2025
Docket Number: 22-12120
Date: February 4, 2025
Docket Number: 23-10181
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Jose Rosado, a Hispanic male of Colombian origin, who worked as an Information Technology (IT) Specialist for the United States Navy. Rosado alleged that he was denied promotions on five occasions…
Date: February 4, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-12578, 23-12579
Justia Opinion Summary: Sheryl Glover and Cathy Booze, plaintiffs, argued that Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) by charging optional fees for expedited mortgage payments online or by phone.…
Date: February 4, 2025
Docket Numbers: 23-13248, 24-12058
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