Skip to main content
Find a Lawyer

United States Eleventh Circuit - April 2002 Opinion Summaries

FILL IN AT LEAST ONE FIELD

Format is YYYYMMDD

Page 1 of 2 Showing Result 1 - 10 of 20
Description Date Docket #

FORD v. GARCIA

United States Eleventh Circuit
Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a civil action brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act, showing the defendant's actual ability to control the guilty troops is part of the...
04/30/2002 01-10357

ESFELD v. COSTA CROCIERE, S.P.A.

United States Eleventh Circuit
Civil Procedure
Under the Erie doctrine, federal law on forum non conveniens applies in diversity cases whenever the state standard is more restrictive, and thus...
04/30/2002 01-11072, 01-11073, 01-11074

US v. RAMIREZ-CHILEL

United States Eleventh Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Court's witness credibility determinations were proper and did not favor police officers' testimony because of their status; appellant demonstrated...
04/26/2002 00-16686

FRANKENMUTH MUT. INS. CO. v. ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA

United States Eleventh Circuit
Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law
A computer lease purchase agreement between the county and insurance company's predecessor-in-interest was properly deemed enforceable after a...
04/24/2002 01-12976

MILES v. NAT'L AVIATION MUSEUM FOUND., INC.

United States Eleventh Circuit
Injury & Tort Law, Transportation, Government Law
The discretionary function exception under the Federal Tort Claims Act will not shield the U.S. from liability for negligent inspection in plaintiff's...
04/24/2002 01-11026

US v. RHIND

United States Eleventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Denial of motions to suppress evidence from a motel room was proper, where other evidence seized from vehicle alone would have supported convictions...
04/23/2002 01-14168, 01-14169, 01-14170

US v. SMITH

United States Eleventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court erroneously departed downward in sentencing defendant after a drug conspiracy conviction, where departures for factual circumstances...
04/23/2002 00-15777

AM. CAS. CO. OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA v. ETOWAH BANK

United States Eleventh Circuit
Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
The term "taking over" was not ambiguous as used in a financial institution bond (a quasi-insurance policy) provision mandating that coverage ceased...
04/19/2002 01-12446

MEIER v. SUN INT'L HOTELS, LTD.

United States Eleventh Circuit
Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Acts of a corporation's subsidiaries in an agency capacity may be imputed to the corporation for personal jurisdiction purposes, thus a Florida...
04/19/2002 01-14431

US v. YOUNG

United States Eleventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
The district court properly denied defendant's request to proceed pro se as untimely, as the request was asserted after the jury was empaneled.
04/11/2002 01-11856

Results 1 to 10 of 20

Copied to clipboard