United States Eleventh Circuit - March 2010 Opinion Summaries

US v. Suarez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendants' alien smuggling convictions and sentences are affirmed where: 1) there was no reasonable basis to believe that the testimony of the aliens...

Sacred Heart Health Sys., Inc. v. Humana Military Healthcare Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Military Law
In a class action by hospitals claiming that defendant-HMO systematically underpaid them for medical services they rendered to veterans under a...

LeBlanc v. Unifund CCR Ptnrs.

Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection
In a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) action alleging that defendant sent an unlawful collection letter, summary judgment for plaintiff is...

Townsend v. Jefferson Cty.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that two deputies at a county jail were deliberately indifferent to the serious medical need of plaintiff,...

SFM Holdings, Ltd. v. Banc of Am. Secs., LLC

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In an action against an investment bank, claiming damages due to violations of federal and state securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty, and...

US v. Sneed

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's drug and firearm possession sentence is vacated where sentencing courts may not use police reports to determine whether predicate offenses...

Coffield v. Handel

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff was unconstitutionally denied access to the 2008 general election ballot as an independent candidate to represent...

US v. Ramunno

Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies, Sentencing
In a mail and wire fraud prosecution involving a Ponzi scheme, denial of a victim's petition to the district court to amend its preliminary order of...

Rushing v. Parker

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action alleging that plaintiff's false arrest violated his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, summary judgment for defendants based on...

In re: Delco Oil, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law
In a bankruptcy adversary proceeding, district court's order affirming a bankruptcy court's grant of summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where...