Pensacola, Florida’s maintenance of a 34-foot Latin cross in a city park does not violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, the Eleventh Circuit ruled. The circuit had affirmed a lower court’s decision ordering the removal of the cross but the Supreme Court vacated after determining that a 32-foot Latin cross on public land in Maryland was constitutional.
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Florida cannot deny the right to vote for felons unable to pay restitution or fines, the 11th Circuit ruled Wednesday in a limited decision.
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Fighting to seal a historic health care fraud conviction Friday, government lawyers reminded the 11th Circuit that, in his heyday as an eye doctor, Salomon Melgen had billed Medicare more than 90 times for diagnostic testing on a patient’s prosthetic eye.
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The constitutionality of South Florida bans on juvenile gay conversion therapy is hanging in the balance in the 11th Circuit, where attorneys jousted Tuesday over whether the bans violate therapists’ free speech rights.
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The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed the former solicitor general of Alabama to a seat on the 11th Circuit, over objections from Democrats critical of his record on voting rights.
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Alabama can be sued under the Voting Rights Act for allegedly diluting the voting power of black citizens in statewide appellate judge elections, the 11th Circuit ruled late Monday.
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An attorney for the designer behind the late Pantera guitarist Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott’s iconic instrument asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to reinstate his lawsuit against a guitar manufacturer he claims stole his copyrighted design.
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Attorneys for a billion-dollar private prison company that houses immigrant detainees in Georgia asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to rule that a federal law prohibiting forced labor does not apply to the detainees.
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A former Florida hearing aid specialist asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reinstate his lawsuit challenging rules regulating the sale of hearing aids in the Sunshine State, the nation’s largest market for the devices.
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An attorney representing Florida asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to overturn a ruling allowing some convicted felons in the state to register to vote regardless of their inability to pay fines ordered as part of their sentences.
Read moreIn the 11th Circuit, government prosecutors at long last uttered the word “sorry” in open court to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, after years of refusing to apologize for keeping them in the dark about a deal that protected the wealthy money manager from federal charges.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of an Alabama federal judge President Donald Trump has tapped for a seat on the 11th Circuit, as well as four other judicial nominees.
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit upheld the convictions of Corrine Brown, a former U.S. representative from Florida, finding that a juror was properly dismissed after he indicated he would base his verdict on what he believed he was told by God. A rule allowing a juror to “base his verdict on something other than the evidence would be antithetical to the rule of law and is contradicted by decades of precedent,” the court determined.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit upheld a federal ruling Friday afternoon, refusing to dismiss a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by a deaf rights advocacy group over Florida’s alleged refusal to provide captioning for live and archived video recordings of legislative proceedings.
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The en banc 11th Circuit on Friday struck down two workers’ challenge to an Alabama law that forbids cities and counties from raising the minimum wage.
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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.
Read moreAn 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.
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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.
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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.
Read moreThe 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.
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