United States Eleventh Circuit - June 2002 Opinion Summaries

DANIEL v OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH REVIEW COMM'N

Administrative Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) decision, affirming a safety citation and penalty relating to a company's failure to...

RIDER v SANDOZ PHARM. CORP.

Evidence, Health Law, Product Liability
Expert testimony, purporting to link the drug Parlodel with hemorrhagic stroke, was inadmissible to prove causation, where the testimony was not...

BD. OF WATER, LIGHT & SINKING FUND COMM'RS OF THE CITY OF DALTON, FLORIDA v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
FERC orders, permitting the construction of a direct delivery connection between a gas company's pipeline and one of petitioner's customers, were not...

MITCHELL v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
The requirement that a prisoner show physical injury for any "federal civil action" does not apply to suits unrelated to prison conditions, filed in...

BESS v CHECK EXPRESS

Banking Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Where plaintiff was not likely to incur prohibitive costs through arbitration, court's reasoning in denying a motion to compel arbitration was in...

US v MCCARRICK

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions for bank fraud and making a false statement to a government agency are reversed, where the government failed to prove that defendant had...

RENDON v. VALLEYCREST PROD., LTD.

Civil Rights
Hearing and mobility-impaired individuals stated a valid ADA Title III claim, in alleging that operation of a game show contestant telephone hotline...

RODRIGUEZ v. FARRELL

Criminal Law & Procedure
A detainee's journey to the jail in the county that issued his arrest warrant, despite its extended nature, was a "brief detention" incident to a...

WESTWOOD CMTY. TWO ASSOC., INC. v. BARBEE

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
Where bankruptcy court orders "directly and adversely affect pecuniarily" an unofficial committee formed by homeowner members of debtor, a...

SOUTHERN CO. v FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Public Utilities
In challenges to several FCC guidelines implementing 1996 Amendments to the Pole Attachments Act (Act), the FCC erred in finding that the Act extends...