The copyright holder of a ‘70s comic book hero asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to revive a lawsuit accusing bestselling author Stephen King of cribbing elements of the character to create the famous gunslinger protagonist of “The Dark Tower” book series.
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit dismissed far-right activist and former congressional candidate Laura Loomer’s suit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations accusing the organization of persuading Twitter to ban her from the social media platform. The circuit court found Loomer had no claim for tortious interference with a business relationship under Florida law.
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit rejected the campaigns of Senator David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and the Georgia Republican Party’s request for an emergency stay or injunction pending appeal in their suit challenging the state’s absentee ballot signature-matching process.
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Home Depot asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn an order requiring it to pay $15.3 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who litigated a class action case against the retailer for a 2014 credit card data breach affecting 56 million customers.
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An attorney for a Georgia sheriff asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to overturn an order ending a jail’s policy of holding mentally ill women in solitary confinement up to 24 hours a day in disturbing conditions.
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An attorney for a Georgia cop fired after parking her police cruiser under a Confederate flag in her front yard asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to give her another chance to show the police department violated her free speech rights.
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A Florida ministry urged an Eleventh Circuit panel Tuesday to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center and Amazon responsible for what it called a discriminatory labeling of the church as a hate group, a designation that has prevented it from fundraising through Amazon’s charitable website.
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The 11th Circuit on Friday rejected a civil rights lawsuit filed by survivors of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, ruling that school and county officials who failed to help students during the shooting did not have a “custodial duty” to protect them.
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Continuing a decade-long battle between federal prosecutors and victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, an attorney for one victim asked the en banc 11th Circuit on Thursday for another chance to challenge a plea deal shielding the investment tycoon’s co-conspirators from criminal liability.
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An attorney for Florida Blue, the state’s largest health insurer, asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to uphold a ruling finding the company did not violate antitrust laws by preventing insurance brokers from selling policies for a competitor.
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The 11th Circuit on Friday struck down bans on juvenile gay conversion therapy in South Florida, finding that therapists’ free speech rights trumped medical organizations’ consensus about the harms associated with trying to change teenagers’ sexual orientation.
Read morehe Eleventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of a government contractor on a widow’s complaint alleging it failed to properly maintain an F-16 that her husband was flying when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The Death on the High Seas Act applies to the case and precludes the widow’s warranty and contract claims.
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Attorneys for a doctor convicted of health care fraud and illegally prescribing addictive opioids to patients at Florida drug treatment centers asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to grant him a new trial.
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Florida Atlantic University in a dispute brought by a professor who was fired after he refused to submit reports about his personal blog, where he questioned whether the Sandy Hook massacre had occurred.
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A New York attorney fought in the 11th Circuit Tuesday to bat away subpoenas issued to her in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-running investigation into her client, a former government informant who says he is being targeted despite helping the federal agency prosecute “dozens of individuals.”
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ATLANTA (CN) — Attorneys for Reality Winner asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reverse an order denying her request
Read moreA customer who used his credit card at a Godiva store lacked standing to bring a class action against the chocolate company because he failed to allege that the store’s statutory violation of printing too many credit card digits on receipts caused him direct harm, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.
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The widow of an F-16 pilot who died after his plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to overturn a ruling in favor of the government contractor she says failed to properly maintain the aircraft.
Read moreStaying part of a lower court’s order, the 11th Circuit reinstated Alabama’s witness and photo ID requirements for absentee ballots but declined to reinstate a de facto ban on curbside voting in the state.
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An 11th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the termination of long-standing judicial protections for Miami’s homeless population, finding that the city had overhauled its homeless policing to the point where court oversight is no longer warranted.
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