Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals News Archives

If the sheriff is not responsible for shortfalls in an inmate food fund, who is? That, said an attorney for Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett, is an issue U.S. Northern District of Alabama Judge U.W. Clemon left unanswered in an order that stopped Bartlett from keeping leftover inmate food funds for his personal use.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:12 p.m. TUSCALOOSA After his conviction on all 60 counts in his federal corruption trial Wednesday, former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford defiantly blamed the media.

Recently it was brought to my attention that some novelty item manufacturers make simulated electric chair executions.

I feel compelled to voice my opinion after reading your article on a police pursuit case .

A federal court has dismissed an appeal by a Christian fraternity that tried to force the University of Florida to recognize it as an official organization.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday found the controversy was moot because the university had amended its policy and allowed Beta Upsilon Chi to register.The fraternity had ...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke, who dismissed a money laundering conspiracy count against the attorney for vetting money that went to Miami celebrity attorney Roy Black to defend Colombian drug kingpin Fabio Ochoa.

A former Jefferson County commissioner once convicted on corruption charges will appear before a federal court of appeals next week.

A federal judge will not hold a hearing on whether the government withheld evidence and used perjured testimony in prosecuting Huntsville defense contractor Alex Latifi and his company, Axion.

A California attorney who has worked on a multitude of legal challenges debating the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president - because of questions over his ability to meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement for a president to be a "natural born" citizen - is taking a federal district judge's conclusions in her case to the 11th U.S. Circuit ...

The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Powell, broadly rejected the claim that general statistical disparities in implementation of the death penalty can establish intentional discrimination in violation of the federal Equal Protection Clause.

Available online from law.com: An headlined " 11th Circuit: Don't Break the Law to Comply With It; Federal appeals court rejects collection company's defense against debtor's suit " reports on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued last week.

Arguing that you broke the law in order to comply with it is not, apparently, the way to win an argument before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, were falsely accused of espionage and conspiracy against the US, among other charges.

It's easy to forget that all nine Supreme Court justices are, at bottom, just recovering attorneys with long experience and strong opinions about lawyers, judges, the legal system, money, and trials.

The premise of a new book on America's courts is that it takes a whole courthouse crowd to let a lawyer sleep through a trial.

Havana. October 14, 2009 Judge imposes 22-year sentence on Antonio Guerrero THE United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida imposed a new sentence on Antonio Guerrero, unjustly imprisoned for more that 11 years in Florence, Colorado, a prison dubbed by the Guinness World Records as the most secure prison in the world, with ...

Attorneys for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy said Wednesday they see a positive sign in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear the appeal of former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling.

Judge: 'The bigger the bubble, the bigger the pop. ... And the bigger the losses, the more likely litigation will ensue.' John Pacenti Daily Business Review October 14, 2009 Bucking the Florida Supreme Court, a federal appellate panel waded into the battle between condo developers and buyers over the use of a consumer protection law to void ...

A Georgia company's efforts to resist disclosure of communications with its lawyer provoked a rare discussion at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday over the importance of attorney-client privilege.

A disbarred Florida lawyer caught representing a client in federal court after he lost his license to practice expected to plead guilty to criminal contempt.

The issue of landowner rights along the Lake Erie shoreline is now before the Ohio Supreme Court.

You can lead a state to a water wars ruling, but you can't make its officials drink from it.

Question of whether criminal contempt is a felony or a misdemeanor called a case of first impression for 11th Circuit John Pacenti Daily Business Review October 09, 2009 When Fort Lauderdale, Fla., attorney Lee A. Cohn was caught representing a client after he was disbarred, he was ready to plead guilty to criminal contempt of court.

Some of the judges deciding a woman's harassment claim against her employer for allowing lewd sex talk in the office resorted to code in Tuesday's oral argument, debating with lawyers whether "the b-word," "the c-word" and "the f-word" could amount to discrimination.

The court rejected a challenge to the 2005 law, which banned lobbyists from giving gifts to legislators and other elected officials.

The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand a $35.6 million Alabama court judgment against retailer Family Dollar Stores Inc ., which was accused of denying employees overtime pay.

A federal judge last week upheld a decision to hold a Georgia woman personally liable to seeking child support payments from former pro basketball player Jason Caffey after he had filed for bankruptcy protection.

Ousted Newton Falls Mayor Pat Layshock lost a chance this week at an injunction that might have put him back in the mayor's seat, but a separate case is still pending in a higher court.

The U.S. is resisting a judge's order that could force disclosure of classified documents and other material sought by three men who are seeking reduced prison sentences for their 2001 convictions in a politically charged spying case.

U.S. Supreme Court opinion is reverberating in two South Florida cases blaming Coca-Cola and Chiquita for brutal killings by Colombian paramilitary groups.