A federal appeals court ruled that a Walker County deputy sheriff is not shielded by state sovereign immunity from a § 1983 suit alleging he arrested a couple out of personal animus and outside the scope of his employment.
Workers at an Alabama assisted living facility won on hazard pay overtime but lost their family leave and retention bonus claims in a ruling that turned on what they put in their complaint and what Swope put in her resignation letter.
A debt-collection firm's firing of a subrogation saleswoman during her probationary period survives challenge under both the ADA and the ADEA.
The 11th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of antitrust claims brought by StarPro, Greens, Inc. and Daniel Selton against Polyloom Corporation of America and Challenger Turf, Inc., ruling that the complaint failed to plausibly allege monopoly power in the mark...
Two Air Force Reserve pilots who resigned from Delta Air Lines amid misconduct investigations cannot recover under federal military-employment law, the Eleventh Circuit held, affirming summary judgment on all three of their claims.
A divided Eleventh Circuit panel held that a seaman injured aboard a 288-foot yacht must arbitrate his maintenance, cure, and failure-to-treat claims against both his contractual employer and the yacht's non-signatory record owner and alleged beneficial own...
A divided Eleventh Circuit held that a state-funded, state-constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades did not trigger the National Environmental Policy Act because the facility lacked the federal control and final agency action requi...
The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed that the Second Amendment does not protect possession of machineguns, upholding the federal ban under 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) and joining several other circuits that have addressed the question.
The Eleventh Circuit held that the Ex parte Young doctrine does not allow plaintiffs to sue state officials for specific performance of state contracts, even when the suit is framed as prospective relief under the Contracts Clause.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction against President Biden’s executive order requiring project labor agreements for federal construction contracts valued at $35 million or more.
A three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel has remanded a civil-rights case against Georgia corrections officers to the district court after the full court reversed a qualified immunity ruling that had shielded the officers from suit.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's ruling that Atlanta's 1982 sign ordinance was unconstitutional, holding that the provision restricting off-site signs is content-neutral under the First Amendment. The decision vacates a lower court order that...
A per curiam panel of the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the drug-trafficking convictions and sentences of three men caught aboard a stateless vessel carrying nearly 375 kilograms of cocaine in the Dominican Republic's exclusive economic zone. The court held tha...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the 180-month prison sentence imposed on Rickey Lee Miller, Jr., who pleaded guilty to attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. The court rejected Miller’s arguments that the district court procedur...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the civil commitment of Joshua Potenza, a man found not guilty by reason of insanity after threatening to kill his former college roommate and coworker.
Jason Lopez, who pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and the Small Business Administration, had his forty-eight-month prison sentence vacated by the Eleventh Circuit. The appellate court held that the district court erred in calculating Lopez's sentencing...
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday reversed the dismissal of a trademark dispute over the intellectual property rights of artist Frida Kahlo, holding that a Southern District of Florida court has personal jurisdiction over the artist's grand-niece and her Mexic...
The Eleventh Circuit reversed a Southern District of Florida dismissal in Frida Kahlo Corporation v. Mara Cristina Teresa Romeo Pinedo, holding that the district court had personal jurisdiction over Pinedo and her Mexican corporation, Familia Kahlo...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Nathaniel Broughton’s 87-month sentence for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, rejecting his claims that the term was procedurally and substantively unreasonable. The court also remanded the case for the district cou...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court order authorizing the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medication to a federal drug defendant found incompetent to stand trial, holding that the government satisfied all four factors required under <...