A deaf former Costco employee is challenging a judge’s decision to toss out a jury verdict that awarded her $775,000 on her disability discrimination claim against the popular supermarket chain.
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An attorney for a trust linked to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to reinstate its antitrust and racketeering complaint accusing international energy trading firms of cheating the company out of billions through a bribery conspiracy.
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eorgia’s election laws unfairly restrict third-party candidates from running for Congress, an attorney for the state’s Libertarian Party told an 11th Circuit panel Friday.
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A kitchen equipment manufacturer ordered to pay a multimillion-dollar verdict to a grocery store butcher whose arm was amputated by a meat saw asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday for a new trial on the butcher’s negligence lawsuit.
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An attorney for a Georgia man sentenced to 32 years in federal prison for two armed bank robberies asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to grant him a new trial based on an FBI forensic examiner’s incorrect testimony explaining DNA evidence.
Read moreAn Alabama family whose home was overrun by venomous brown recluse spiders cannot revive their lawsuit against the insurance company that denied their claim for property damages, an 11th Circuit panel ruled.
Read moreIn a class action brought by inmates, the Eleventh Circuit stayed an injunction, pending appeal, that requires the Metro West Detention Center in Florida to employ several safety measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The court also expedited the appeal. As of Friday, 163 inmates in the prison had tested positive for the virus.
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A lawyer fighting for victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring wants a second chance to convince the 11th Circuit that prosecutors violated federal law by keeping the wealthy financier’s plea arrangement concealed from the girls he abused.
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The 11th Circuit ruled Wednesday that a Florida ballot-ordering law that Democrats say gives an unfair electoral advantage to Republican candidates is not unconstitutional.
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An Alabama couple whose home played host to a massive infestation of venomous brown recluse spiders has asked the 11th Circuit to reverse the dismissal of their lawsuit against their insurance company.
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An attorney for the son of a former Albanian president asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to revive his defamation lawsuit against the author and publisher of a book behind the 2016 film “War Dogs,” claiming they falsely accused him of being a mobster who engaged in corrupt arms dealing.
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A legal battle over the removal of a Confederate monument from a central Florida town square raged on Thursday in the 11th Circuit.
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Two men convicted of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the United States and pocketing portions of their contracts did not aid and abet illegal border crossings, their lawyers argued Tuesday before the 11th Circuit.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit on Thursday put an end to a copyright dispute between the designer of late Pantera frontman Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott’s iconic guitar and the manufacturer he claims stole his design, finding the designer waited too long to sue.
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Victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring were denied relief Tuesday in the 11th Circuit, where an appellate panel stonewalled attempts to throw out a nonprosecution deal that gives immunity to the wealthy financier’s aides.
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A former NFL player convicted of health care fraud and ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution for taking illegal kickbacks asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to toss out his 22-year prison sentence.
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A Florida prisoner asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to reinstate his lawsuit claiming that prison officials violated his civil rights when they put him in a cell with an inmate who later stabbed him in the eye with scissors while he was asleep.
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The family of a woman who developed a brain tumor as a teenager is fighting in the 11th Circuit to resurrect their claims that the fatal cancer was caused by exposure to radioactive compounds from a Pratt & Whitney plant near her childhood home.
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A Colombian human smuggler linked to the rape and murder of a Cuban woman and the murder of a Cuban man during a migrant smuggling operation has asked the 11th Circuit to overturn his sentence for conspiracy charges.
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A federal injunction blocking a Florida law that requires felons to pay restitution and fines before being able to vote will stand, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday, denying the state’s request for an en banc rehearing.
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