11th circuit Archives

School’s Transgender Bathroom Rules Fought at 11th Circuit

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, bathrooms, Florida, LGBT, schools, students, teens, transgender

An attorney for a transgender teenager asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to require a Florida school district to allow the teen to use the bathroom matching his gender identity.

Appeals Business Consumers Health

Panel Takes Up Dispute Over Unlicensed Nursing Homes

November 21, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, Class Action, Florida, licensing, nursing homes, venue

An attorney for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to keep in federal court a conspiracy and fraud class action accusing the company of selling nursing homes with invalid licenses.

Appeals Business Consumers

Pet Store Chain Urges Panel to Reject Suit Over Sick Animals

November 20, 2019November 21, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, animals, Class Action, Fraud, Georgia, pets, racketeering, retail

Attorneys for one of the country’s largest pet store chains asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reject a class action claiming the company knowingly sells sick dogs and cats to customers at inflated prices.

Courts Government National Politics

Trump Flips Another Circuit to Majority GOP Appointees

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 TIM RYAN

11th circuit, Confirmation Hearing, judges, judiciary, presidential appointments, Trump administration, U.S. Senate

The Senate confirmed a Florida Supreme Court justice to a seat on the 11th Circuit on Wednesday, a vote that gives the Atlanta-based appeals court a majority of judges who were appointed by Republican presidents.

Appeals Civil Rights Government International

Panel Asked to Reinstate $10M Award for Bolivian Massacre Claims

November 19, 2019November 20, 2019 IZZY KAPNICK

11th circuit, damages, military, murder, protests, South America

The families of those killed in the Bolivian military’s 2003 clash with protesters urged the 11th Circuit on Tuesday to resurrect a $10 million jury verdict against the country’s ex-president and his former defense minister.

Appeals Civil Rights

Panel Asked to Let Mentally Ill Inmate Fight for Better Care

November 19, 2019November 20, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, aclu, Georgia, inmates, mental health, prisons

An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reinstate a mentally and physically disabled Georgia inmate’s lawsuit seeking better medical care.

Courts Government Politics

Eyeing 11th Circuit Flip, Trump Continues to Reshape Courts

November 19, 2019November 20, 2019 TIM RYAN

11th circuit, judges, judiciary, presidential appointments, Trump administration, U.S. Senate

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a Florida Supreme Court justice to a seat on the 11th Circuit and advanced the nomination of one of his colleagues, bringing President Donald Trump within striking distance of flipping the Atlanta-based appeals court.

Appeals Environment

Mining and Manufacturing

November 6, 2019November 7, 2019 BRIEF

11th circuit, Army Corps of Engineers, dbrief2, manufacturing, mining, pollution, wetlands

The 11th Circuit ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers properly issued a wetland discharge permit to a fertilizer manufacturer that mines phosphate without addressing the environmental effects of a radioactive byproduct of the manufacturing process.

Courts Government Politics

Trump Picks New Alabama Judge for Seat on 11th Circuit

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 TIM RYAN

11th circuit, Alabama, judiciary, presidential appointments, Trump administration

President Donald Trump announced seven new judicial nominees on Wednesday, including an 11th Circuit pick that was confirmed to an Alabama federal court just six months ago.

Politics

DNC Bias Class Action

October 29, 2019October 30, 2019 BRIEF

11th circuit, bias, Class Action, Clintons, dbrief1, Democratic National Committee, Election 2016

The 11th Circuit dismissed a putative class action fraud suit against the Democratic National Committee, which claimed that it was biased in favor of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential primaries.

Appeals Courts Government National

En Banc 11th Circuit Hears Bid to Release Lynching Records

October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, Georgia, grand jury, history, race, records

Taking up a fight for records about a 1946 lynching in Georgia, a full 12-member panel of the 11th Circuit heard arguments Tuesday over whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in old cases with historical significance.

Appeals Criminal Health

Death Sentence

October 18, 2019October 21, 2019 BRIEF

11th circuit, brain, dbrief1, Death Penalty, Habeas, sentencing

The Eleventh Circuit ruled that a death row inmate convicted of murder in 1986 is entitled to a new sentencing proceeding. His counsel failed to present evidence relating to a serious head injury defendant sustained as a child, which likely caused brain damage.

Courts Government Politics

Senate Panel Advances Nominees Poised to Reshape 11th Circuit

October 16, 2019October 17, 2019 BRANDI BUCHMAN

11th circuit, Florida, judges, presidential appointments, Senate Judiciary Committee, Trump administration

Two Florida Supreme Court justices and 11th Circuit nominees breezed through their initial Senate hearings Wednesday, moving the Atlanta-based appeals court closer to having a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents.

Appeals Health

Liver Donations

September 26, 2019September 27, 2019 BRIEF

11th circuit, dbrief3, HHS, hospitals, surgery

The 11th Circuit remanded a suit brought by several hospitals against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services relating to the agency’s adoption of a new policy for allocating donated livers.

Appeals Employment Government

Panel Asked to Revive Lawsuit Against Former Alabama Governor

September 19, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, Alabama, banks, due process, equal protection, governors

An attorney for the ousted CEO of Alabama One Credit Union asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit against former Governor Robert Bentley and his ex-legal adviser accusing them of seizing control of the institution and forcing him out.

Criminal Law

Georgia Man Convicted of Counterfeit Gold Scam Appeals to 11th Circuit

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, Fraud, Gold, sentencing

A Georgia man sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for scamming internet customers out of nearly $800,000 in a scheme involving counterfeit gold and silver coins asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reconsider his sentence.

Courts Politics

Trump Could Remake 11th Circuit With Pair of Nominees

September 12, 2019 TIM RYAN

11th circuit, judges, Trump administration

In a move that will likely flip a federal appeals court that hears cases from Florida, Georgia and Alabama, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced plans to nominate two Florida Supreme Court justices to vacant seats on the 11th Circuit.

Appeals Civil Rights Government

Political Asylum

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 BRIEF

11th circuit, Asylum, dbrief5, Drug cartels, human rights, threats

The 11th Circuit ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to consider a political asylum claim from a man whose life was threatened by the Gulf Cartel, “one of Mexico’s oldest and most dangerous cartels.”

Appeals Health

Wrangle Over Changes to Liver Transplant Policy Lands Before 11th Circuit

August 22, 2019August 23, 2019 JOHN BRACKIN

11th circuit, HHS, regulation, surgery

An 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday over a proposed policy change that would affect how patients on the liver-transplant waiting list would receive their new, life-saving organs.

Appeals Criminal Health

Convicted Pill-Mill Pharmacist Claims Ignorance at 11th Circuit

August 22, 2019 KAYLA GOGGIN

11th circuit, Georgia, Medicine, opioids, pharmaceuticals, trafficking

A defrocked pharmacist who supplied millions of opioids to patients of the bogus pain clinic across the street lobbed a “Hail Mary” appeal Thursday at the 11th Circuit, saying he was in no position to question the prescriptions coming in.

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