United States Eleventh Circuit - February 2010 Opinion Summaries

Deen v. Egleston

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice action, the denial of partial summary judgment for defendant is reversed where the district court, in striking down, under...

US v. Whitson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's cocaine importation sentence is vacated where defendant's prior conviction for non-overt act criminal conspiracy was not a "crime of...

Coffin v. Brandau

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action based on defendant-officers' alleged warrantless entry into plaintiffs' garage, and one plaintiff's arrest, claiming a violation of...

US v. Phillips

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug and firearm possession sentence is vacated where, under 18 U.S.C. section 3582(c) and Fed. R. Crim. P. 35(a), the district court on...

Mora v. Jackson Mem. Found., Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an Age Discrimination in Employment Act action, summary judgment for defendant is vacated and remanded where a reasonable juror could accept that...

Brown v. Ala. Dept. of Trans.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Transportation
In a Title VII action alleging a racially discriminatory failure to promote plaintiff, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part where there was...

Utopia Provider Sys., Inc. v. Pro-Med Clinical Sys., L.L.C.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Copyright, Intellectual Property
In a copyright infringement action based on defendant's alleged misappropriation of plaintiff's paper templates designed to capture a...

Diallo v. U.S. Atty. Gen.

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner, a native of Guinea, from the U.S., the petition is granted and the ruling is vacated...

US ex rel. Sanchez v. Lymphatx, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a False Claims Act action alleging fraudulent billing and retaliatory discharge claims against a government contractor, dismissal of the complaint...

Jimenez v. WellStar Health Sys.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging racially discriminatory suspension of a physician's medical staff privileges, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where: 1)...