2023 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1690
Date: September 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10220
Date: September 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11459
Justia Opinion Summary: After Petitioner’s conviction and sentence were upheld on direct appeal, Petitioner sought state post-conviction relief. As relevant here, he asserted that his attorneys rendered ineffective assistance by failing to…
Date: September 6, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11214
Date: September 6, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12301
Date: September 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10329
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Petitioner pleaded guilty to murdering his grandmother and stepgrandfather. He was sentenced to death. After exhausting his direct appeals, Petitioner filed a petition for postconviction relief under Alabama…
Date: September 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11339
Justia Opinion Summary: Employer provides security for NASA and employs approximately 40 security officers. Employee was hired as a security officer in 2018. After learning that his pay did not increase as promised after completing his…
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Numbers: 14-14883, 16-15794, 19-10791, 19-12819, 22-10188
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10384
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11317
Justia Opinion Summary: A nine-year-old girl took her own life after a classmate repeatedly delivered racist insults to her. The girl's mother and grandmother sought to hold the school system and several school officials accountable for her…
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11667
Date: September 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14225
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-14712, 22-11120
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11015
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11128
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11556
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued The Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. (“SCAD”) for race discrimination and retaliation after he was fired from his job as Head Fishing Coach. As part of his employment onboarding, however, Plaintiff…
Date: August 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12180
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11342
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted and convicted of tampering with a witness. Defendant appealed his conviction on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to convict him of the offense in three respects: (1) the alleged threat…
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10213
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11181
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11489
Date: August 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13102
Date: August 29, 2023
Docket Numbers: 14-13131, 17-15695, 21-14161
Justia Opinion Summary: Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Jared Wheat, and Stephen Smith appealed the district court’s denial of their request for relief from contempt sanctions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued them for violations of the…
Date: August 29, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10179
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his convictions for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, Hobbs Act robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. He made three arguments on appeal: (1) the district court abused its…
Date: August 28, 2023
Docket Number: 20-11994
Justia Opinion Summary: During a domestic dispute, Plaintiff shot his unarmed twenty-two-year-old son, killing him. He was arrested and prosecuted for murder but was acquitted after a jury trial. Plaintiff then filed a lawsuit against the City…
Date: August 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10509
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, who has long struggled with serious mental-health issues—has a pattern of threatening judges. This case arises out of a threat that he recently made against a federal magistrate judge in his hometown of Fort…
Date: August 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11092
Date: August 28, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10200
Date: August 23, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10450
Date: August 23, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12202
Date: August 22, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10590
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff alleged that Defendant falsely arrested him, used excessive force in doing that, and then was deliberately indifferent to Plaintiff’s alleged medical needs. The district court granted Officer Miller’s motion…
Date: August 22, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10985
Justia Opinion Summary: Pace (a company that sells and services garage doors) sued a competitor, Overhead Garage Door (“OGD”) (a company that also offers garage door services), alleging a host of federal and state law violations relating to…
Date: August 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11707
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal centers around section 4(a)(1)–(3) of Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (the “Act”). Section 4(a)(1)–(3) of the Act states that “no person shall engage in or cause” the prescription or…
Date: August 21, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12312
Date: August 18, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14408
Justia Opinion Summary: Following the disclosures of the new information, Grupo Unidos challenged the impartiality of the arbitrators before the International Court of Arbitration (“ICA”) of the International Chamber of Commerce. The ICA agreed…
Date: August 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10385
Date: August 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12316
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling entering judgment in favor of the US in a negligence suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”). The Seneca was piloted by Nisha Sejwal, with Ralph Knight…
Date: August 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13043
Date: August 17, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11621
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Gladden and Linton were convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and mail fraud, and the substantive offenses of health care fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, for their roles in a…
Date: August 17, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13274
Date: August 17, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13673
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Navy contracted with the defendant-appellee General Dynamics Electric Boat Corporation (“EB”) for the construction, testing, and delivery of Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines. EB in turn entered…
Date: August 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10947
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Defendant of illegally structuring two separate land-sale contract payments of around $270,000 each. On appeal, Defendant argued that there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions. Defendant…
Date: August 16, 2023
Docket Number: 19-15024
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from a multiple-count indictment against dozens of members of the Gangster Disciples. Five of them, Alonzo Walton, Kevin Clayton, Donald Glass, Antarious Caldwell, and Vancito Gumbs, appeal their…
Date: August 15, 2023
Docket Number: 20-14846
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant informed the court that its case was moot and that it had been moot at the time of our decision. Appellee has since confirmed that had dissolved its limited liability company seven weeks before we decided the…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-11743, 22-10048
Justia Opinion Summary: Two companies filed a lawsuit in federal court against two of their former employees, who had served in executive positions. The former executives responded by suing the companies in Florida state court. They later moved…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11081
Justia Opinion Summary: Following an investigation, Rollins determined that Plaintiff- John Doe violated its sexual misconduct policy. Doe was able to graduate and receive his undergraduate degree but was not allowed to participate in…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11569
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought a three-count maritime negligence action against Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. (“Royal Caribbean”) after she fell aboard one of its cruise ships. She alleged that during the ship’s muster drill, a Royal…
Date: August 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13332
Date: August 11, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12291
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He had a two-day trial at which he testified, asserting a justification defense. The jury rejected that defense, finding him guilty. The…
Date: August 11, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13441
Date: August 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10669
Justia Opinion Summary: In January 2021, many customers of the online financial services company Robinhood were aggressively buying specific stocks known as “meme stocks” in a frenzy that generated widespread attention. Robinhood suddenly…
Date: August 9, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13577
Date: August 8, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14230
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment dismissing Plaintiff’s claims against Polk County and two employees who worked at the jail, alleging that the Jail and its employees interfered with his right…
Date: August 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10658
Date: August 7, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12709
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant filed an Application for Naturalization (Form N-400), on which she certified under penalty of perjury that she had never “committed a crime or offense for which she was NOT arrested.” Defendant was charged in…
Date: August 4, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12661
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, seeking to recover damages he allegedly suffered in an accident with a U.S. Postal Service truck. To meet his burden to show that the crash caused his…
Date: August 4, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10525
Justia Opinion Summary: Over 20 years ago, a group of Florida wine consumers and an out-of-state winery (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) sued the Director of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, alleging that certain…
Date: August 4, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14235
Date: August 4, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11976
Date: August 2, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-13850, 22-10203
Justia Opinion Summary: Barges around Pensacola Bay were slammed around during Hurricane Sally, leading to significant damage—including to the Pensacola Bay Bridge, which was closed for months. Skanska, the construction company that owned the…
Date: August 1, 2023
Docket Numbers: 17-10975, 18-14236, 20-13166, 23-11870
Date: August 1, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13534
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appeals his sentence for possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. There are four issues on appeal: whether (1) the district court erred in…
Date: August 1, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10673
Date: July 31, 2023
Docket Number: 19-13745
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Florida prisoner, says that he deserves a religious exemption from a Florida Department of Corrections rule that beards can only be a half-inch long. The district court agreed with him, and the Secretary of…
Date: July 31, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12609
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1). ACCA imposes a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence on violators of Section 922(g)(1) if…
Date: July 31, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10299
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against The University of Miami (Miami), alleging the school should refund a portion of the payments that she made for the Spring 2020 semester since she did not receive the expected benefit of…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13382
Justia Opinion Summary: During removal proceedings, Petitioner wrote to the Board of Immigration Appeals asking to withdraw his appeal of an immigration judge’s decision and to be deported. The Board granted his withdrawal request. He now…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13632
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs were arrested by Sheriff’s deputies for stashing their client’s cell phone in a bag only minutes before the police executed a search warrant for child pornography on that phone. Plaintiffs alleged that…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13756
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner an Alabama prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2254. The district judge granted a Certificate of Appealability (COA)…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12429
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a petition to have her husband classified as her immediate relative so that he would be eligible to adjust his immigration status. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security approved the…
Date: July 28, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10080
Date: July 27, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10927
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, survivors and the administrator of a man shot and killed by Defendant police officers filed a lawsuit alleging claims of excessive force under the Fourth Amendment and battery and negligence under Georgia…
Date: July 27, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11516
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff The Highland Consulting Group, Inc. (“Highland”), a consulting firm, sued Defendant for misappropriating its trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”). At trial, the jury returned a verdict of…
Date: July 27, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14140
Date: July 26, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13591
Date: July 25, 2023
Docket Numbers: 18-11836, 22-10435, 22-10437
Justia Opinion Summary: The Natural Gas Act authorizes private entities who have received a certificate of public convenience and necessity to acquire property “by the exercise of the right of eminent domain.” Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC,…
Date: July 24, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10199
Justia Opinion Summary: In August 2019, Plaintiff filed a class action against GoDaddy. The putative class alleged that the web-hosting company embarked on an unlawful telemarketing campaign. Objector-Appellant then filed an objection and moved…
Date: July 21, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11791
Date: July 21, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12085
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from a dispute about CoolSculpting, a medical device intended to minimize the appearance of fat. When Plaintiff tried CoolSculpting, he developed a rare condition called Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia…
Date: July 21, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13249
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling sentencing Defendant to 180 months e for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(e). A…
Date: July 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13321
Date: July 20, 2023
Docket Numbers: 16-17179, 18-12238, 21-13201
Date: July 20, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13521
Date: July 19, 2023
Docket Number: 18-13467
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sits on death row in Georgia following his convictions for kidnapping with bodily injury and armed robbery. He appealed the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 petition for a writ of habeas…
Date: July 19, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-10863, 20-12289, 22-10042
Date: July 19, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12567
Date: July 19, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13279
Date: July 19, 2023
Docket Number: 23-12242
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff is an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on July 20, 2023. Plaintiff filed a Section 1983 complaint asserting that the manner in which Alabama executes its lethal injection…
Date: July 18, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13639
Date: July 18, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12540
Date: July 17, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13894
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff argues that former Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein fired her from her position as a public defender in violation of her First Amendment rights. Finkelstein fired Plaintiff after she made…
Date: July 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11531
Date: July 14, 2023
Docket Number: 20-14181
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Defendant of attempted second-degree murder, and he was sentenced to forty years in prison. Defendant claimed that the jury instructions on attempted voluntary manslaughter were incomplete because they…
Date: July 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-12314
Date: July 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14103
Date: July 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14026
Date: July 13, 2023
Docket Numbers: 16-17623, 17-12163, 18-14807, 21-13059
Date: July 13, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13260
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, together with three others, conspired to rob a cocaine stash house. They did not know that the conspiracy was part of a reverse sting operation administrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…
Date: July 13, 2023
Docket Number: 20-14264
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Defendant of healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in a trial that took place during the initial days of the coronavirus pandemic. Defendant appealed his conviction, raising a number of…
Date: July 13, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11758
Justia Opinion Summary: Continental Casualty Company and Valley Forge Insurance Company (collectively, “the insurers”) and Winder Laboratories, LLC and Steven Pressman (collectively, “the insureds”) appeal and cross-appeal from the district…
Date: July 13, 2023
Docket Numbers: 22-10164, 22-10782
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a pimp, transported three young women from Connecticut to Miami, Florida, for his prostitution business shortly before Super Bowl LIV. Following a jury trial, Walker was convicted of three…
Date: July 11, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13146
Justia Opinion Summary: Brinker International, Inc. (“Brinker”), the owner of Chili’s restaurants, faced a cyber-attack in which customers’ credit and debit cards were compromised. Chili’s customers have brought a class action because their…
Date: July 11, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13734
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of capital murder by an Alabama jury. The jury recommended death by execution, and the trial judge imposed the death penalty. Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief in the Northern…
Date: July 10, 2023
Docket Number: 20-14781
Justia Opinion Summary: After perpetrating elaborate bank and credit card fraud, Petitioner “embarked upon a new scheme . . . to ensnarl the proceedings against him” through obstructionist and disruptive behaviors “so that he might avoid trial…
Date: July 10, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10994
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff used Roundup on his lawn for thirty years until 2016, when he was diagnosed with malignant fibrous histiocytoma, a form of cancer. He sued Monsanto, Roundup’s manufacturer, in the district court. He alleged…
Date: July 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10633
Justia Opinion Summary: MiMedx is a Florida corporation headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. Carpenters Pension Fund of Illinois is the lead plaintiff in this consolidated securities class action. Carpenters purchased 41,080 shares of MiMedx…
Date: July 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11794
Date: July 7, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-13426, 21-13429
Date: July 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10575
Justia Opinion Summary: Ford Motor Company advertised its Shelby GT350 Mustang as “track ready.” But some Shelby models weren’t equipped for long track runs, and when the cars overheated, they would rapidly decelerate. A group of Shelby owners…
Date: July 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10646
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff wanted to enjoy that terrific feeling of carefreely careening down a waterslide with his son to celebrate his son’s seventh birthday. So he took his son to Universal’s Volcano Bay waterpark and got in line to…
Date: July 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13603
Date: July 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10502
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant who pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm in violation of federal law, was sentenced to 60 months in prison based on a Guidelines range of 70–87 months. In calculating Defendant’s range, though, the…
Date: July 6, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13765
Date: July 5, 2023
Docket Numbers: 22-10196, 22-10197
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal turns on the meaning of the phrase “partner level determinations” in Section 6230(a)(2)(A)(i) of the now-repealed Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (“TEFRA”). When the IRS adjusts the tax items…
Date: July 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10348
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, through his estate, sued Ford Motor Company, inter alia, for wrongful death and product liability pursuant to the Alabama Extended Manufacturer’s Liability Doctrine (AEMLD). He alleged that a faulty seatbelt…
Date: July 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10445
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Peru, appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that she is ineligible for relief under 8 U.S.C. Section 1229b(b)(2), a provision whose language was originally adopted as…
Date: July 3, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13148
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose out of an insurance dispute between Plaintiff and Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois. After an accident in which her vehicle suffered substantial damage, Plaintiff made a claim under her Safeco-issued…
Date: June 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12703
Date: June 28, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13249
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Numbers: 15-13610, 18-13619, 21-13869
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Numbers: 21-10195, 22-13811, 23-11927
Date: June 26, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13783
Date: June 26, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10718
Date: June 26, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11312
Date: June 23, 2023
Docket Numbers: 19-13690, 21-14509
Justia Opinion Summary: The case arose following an insurance dispute between Travelers Property Casualty Company of America (“Travelers”) and Ocean Reef Charters LLC (“Ocean Reef”), a Florida Limited Liability Company. On cross-motions for…
Date: June 23, 2023
Docket Number: 20-12547
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Debtors Mosaic Management Group, Inc., Mosaic Alternative Assets, Ltd., and Paladin Settlements, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Florida, a “UST district” in which the U.S.…
Date: June 23, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11982
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff is serving a life sentence in Georgia and is in the custody of the GDC. As an inmate, his communications with those on the outside are governed by GDC policies and regulations. In 2018, Plaintiff filed a pro se…
Date: June 22, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11287
Justia Opinion Summary: In the winter of 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) determined that the threat posed by the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus constituted a public health emergency. The CDC published the rule at issue—the…
Date: June 22, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11322
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury determined that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office discriminated and retaliated against helicopter pilot (Plaintiff) in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and awarded…
Date: June 22, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12827
Date: June 21, 2023
Docket Number: 19-14381
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pled guilty in 2005 to possessing 50 grams or more of cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine) with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A)(iii).…
Date: June 21, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13389
Date: June 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10214
Justia Opinion Summary: NuVasive, Inc. manufactures medical products and equipment to treat spinal diseases. In central Florida, NuVasive sold its products through an exclusive distribution agreement with Absolute Medical, LLC. Under the…
Date: June 21, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10550
Date: June 20, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13496
Justia Opinion Summary: E.G. fell from a roof and became paralyzed from the waist down, never to walk again. Within months, his medical bills climbed past $400,000, and future costs projected into the millions. Three insurance companies…
Date: June 16, 2023
Docket Number: 21-11340
Justia Opinion Summary: Over the course of twenty-two months, Plaintiff-—a childhood victim of lead poisoning—assigned his rights to nearly one million dollars in structured settlement payments to factoring companies for pennies on the dollar.…
Date: June 15, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11595
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12261
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued his former employer for allegedly underpaying him for overtime hours. Plaintiff worked in Florida, but he sued Waste Pro USA, Inc., and its subsidiary, Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., as one of several named…
Date: June 12, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14468
Justia Opinion Summary: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is not exempt from the rules of discovery. Nonetheless, the CFPB tried to bring a wide-ranging civil lawsuit against 18 defendants without ever being deposed. When the…
Date: June 12, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10248
Date: June 12, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11782
Date: June 9, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10713
Date: June 9, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10894
Date: June 9, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11628
Date: June 8, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-11638, 22-12010
Date: June 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10250
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff’s employee opened, in Plaintiff’s name, a credit card with Chase and ran up tens of thousands of dollars in debt. The employee also illegally accessed Plaintiff’s bank accounts and used them to partially pay…
Date: June 8, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11621
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs (collectively, the Officers) worked as police officers for the City of Hoover, Alabama. They also served as military reservists. Over a two-decade span, the Officers were summoned to active-duty service a…
Date: June 8, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11077
Date: June 7, 2023
Docket Number: 20-12727
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner is an Alabama prisoner serving a death sentence following his jury convictions on four counts of capital murder. After pursuing a direct appeal and post-conviction relief in the Alabama state courts,…
Date: June 7, 2023
Docket Number: 21-14317
Justia Opinion Summary: At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) stopped providing “Rapid Delivery”1 to Amazon Prime (“Prime”) subscribers. Because Prime subscribers were not notified of the suspension and continued to…
Date: June 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10441
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from the tragic death of a man who died while in custody. Appellants appealed the district court’s orders dismissing their claims against the Sheriff and granting summary judgment to the Fulton County…
Date: June 7, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13489
Date: June 6, 2023
Docket Numbers: 20-12907, 21-11535
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant challenged his drug- and firearm-related convictions as well as his sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Defendant argued that insufficient evidence supports two of his convictions and that he is…
Date: June 6, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10913
Date: June 5, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13954
Justia Opinion Summary: AM Grand Court Lakes LLC and AM 280 Sierra Drive LLC (collectively “AM Grand”) owned a group of buildings that were operated as an assisted living facility. AM Grand submitted a claim to its insurer, Rockhill Insurance…
Date: June 5, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12853
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff worked for a company later acquired by the Paradies Shops. He, like many employees, entrusted his employer with sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII). In October 2020, Paradies suffered a…
Date: June 5, 2023
Docket Numbers: 23-11528, 23-11644
Date: June 2, 2023
Docket Number: 20-12804
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a Georgia prisoner sentenced to death, appealed the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner contends that the Georgia courts unreasonably adjudicated his objection that the prosecutor…
Date: June 2, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11034
Date: June 1, 2023
Docket Numbers: 19-10453, 21-13077
Date: June 1, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10539
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Defendant of thirteen counts of Hobbs Act robbery and associated firearm offenses for his involvement in robbing nine establishments in the greater Atlanta area: three spas, four massage parlors, a nail…
Date: June 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10547
Date: June 1, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12949
Date: June 1, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10747
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 20-13651
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Georgia Department of Natural Resources (“GDNR”) sued DeKalb County for violating the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). To resolve this suit, the parties agreed to a…
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 21-10461
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a physician assistant, evaluated patients and prescribed their physical therapy. The clinics where Defendant worked then billed the patients' health insurance both for the evaluations and for the subsequent…
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 21-13561
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to his former employer, the Georgia Department of Public Safety (“Department”). Plaintiff argued that the district court erred in concluding that he…
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10877
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10889
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11059
Justia Opinion Summary: Empire Indemnity Insurance Company issued an insurance policy (the “Policy”) to Positano Place at Naples I Condominium Association, Inc., for coverage of five buildings that Positano owns in Naples, Florida. Following…
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11060
Date: May 31, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12496
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-10707
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners chartered their yacht, Lady Leila, in 2014 and 2015. They did not conduct the chartering activity for profit—it was a hobby. Though the hobby generated income, it also incurred sizeable expenses each year.…
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11406
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-11626
Justia Opinion Summary: The Secretary of Labor cited and fined Chewy, Inc., for inadequately protecting its warehouse employees from “under-rides,” a kind of forklift accident. The Secretary found that no specific standard covered the…
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12416
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-12998
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-13805
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 22-14257
Date: May 30, 2023
Docket Number: 23-11414
Date: May 26, 2023
Docket Number: 23-10918
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2021, Respondent-Appellant left Brazil with her daughter, Y.F.G., and eventually entered the United States. The child’s father, Petitioner-Appellee, shared custody of Y.F.G., and he petitioned for the child’s return…
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