Eleventh Circuit (inc.Bankruptcy)

The Eleventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals is located in the Southeastern region of the United States. It spans across Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. The US Court of Appeals for the circuit is in Georgia, and is the Elbert P. Tuttle US Court of Appeals Building in Atlanta. Although these districts were originally a part of the Fifth Circuit, in 1981 Congressional Legislation split the two circuits into the Fifth and Eleventh US Circuits.

The US Court of Appeals is in Atlanta, Georgia. The Middle District courthouse in GA is in Macon, and the Southern District courthouse is in Savannah, GA. In Alabama, the Middle District court is in Montgomery, the Northern District Court is in Birmingham, and the Southern District courthouse is in Mobile, AL. In the state of Florida, the Middle District is in Orlando, Northern District is in the state’s capital of Tallahassee, and the Southern District courthouse is in Miami, Florida.

There are currently 12 active judges sitting on the bench for the Eleventh Circuit; of these judges, seven are senior judges for their respective districts. Edward Earl Carnes is the Chief Justice for the Circuit and Clarence Thomas, who is also a US Supreme Court Associate Justice, is the Circuit Justice.

Smith v Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County (1987) was one of the cases which set precedent for future cases in the Eleventh Circuit. The court held that schools in Mobile County, AL could use textbooks, even though some parents believed they promoted secular humanism as a religion. USA v Alabama (2011) was another precedent-setting case dealing with immigration and border control issues. The US filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief claiming a new AL state law was preempted by the Federal Immigration Law, Immigration & Nationality Act, and a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution.

The National Law Review covers several cases in the Eleventh Circuit. Immigration is a major area of law which is dealt with in the lower states. Elderly law (nursing home, abuse, etc.), labor and employment rights, tax evasion and tax appeal, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and tort cases are highly covered on the site. Additionally, the National Law Review covers the latest legislative, election, and agency news, as well as news coming directly from the circuit courts, on our website.

Date	Title	Organization
6 Jul	Supreme Court Decides No Signature, No Problem	Proskauer Rose LLP
30 Jun	Strike! Eleventh Circuit in Bowling Upends Decades of Removal Jurisprudence in FCRA Case	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
29 Jun	Eleventh Circuit Examines FCRA Willfulness Standard	Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
29 Jun	District Court Protects DACA, Affirms DOJ Guidance in Hiring Discrimination Case	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
26 Jun	Experian Avoids Hefty Punitive Damage Award, but Still Has to Pay $5,000 for a Single FCRA Violation For Claimed Pain and Suffering	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
24 Jun	New Litigation May Further Clarify the FCRA’s Definition of “Consumer Reporting Agency”	Hunton Andrews Kurth
24 Jun	Sublimit in Primary Policy Quashes Excess Insurer’s Obligation to Follow	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
22 Jun	TCPA Quick Hitter: Ringless Voicemail User Denied Early Appellate Bid in Eleventh Circuit	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
17 Jun	Wholesale Scraping of “Public” Data May Be Trade Secret Misappropriation	Proskauer Rose LLP
15 Jun	Title VII Prohibits Gay and Transgender Discrimination, SCOTUS Rules	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
29 May	TCPA Plaintiff Could Not Get Away with Forum Shopping Antics	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
28 May	Double Meaning Can Make Mark Distinctive	McDermott Will & Emery
26 May	COVID-19, Executive Authority and Fundamental Rights: What Do the Courts Say?	Faegre Drinker
18 May	A Rubric for Design Patent Claim Construction to a “Tee”	Foley & Lardner LLP
18 May	Southern District of Florida Court Holds that TCPA Plaintiff is Not the “Called-Party” Due to Call Forwarding	Faegre Drinker
18 May	The Daubert Toolbox: Revisiting and Appreciating Joiner, the Middle Child	Faegre Drinker
15 May	FCRA Case Addressing Definition of “Consumer Report” Headed to the Jury	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
13 May	11th Circuit Holds that Consumers Cannot Unilaterally Revoke Contractual Consent to Automated Calls	Faegre Drinker
7 May	COVID-19 Related Workplace Litigation Tracker - June 19 , 2020	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
7 May	District of New Jersey Adopts Narrow ATDS Definition as Circuit Split Grows; Supreme Court Clarification Required	Faegre Drinker
5 May	3M Takes Action to Protect Its Brand from Price Gouging And Trademark Infringement	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
5 May	LOCKED IN: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Contractual Consent for Robocalls Cannot be Revoked–but TCPAWorld Remains Split on the Issue	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
4 May	Eleventh Circuit Implements Supreme Court’s Young v. UPS Test in Assessing Indirect Evidence of Intentional Pregnancy Discrimination	Proskauer Rose LLP
1 May	Breaking: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal Holds Contractual TCPA Consent Cannot Be Revoked	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
30 Apr	Another Stay Granted Pending Supreme Court TCPA Decision	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
30 Apr	Eleventh Circuit Lawsuit Claims Bacardi Used Harmful and Illegal Additive in its Liquor	Keller and Heckman LLP
30 Apr	11th Circuit Tells Guitar Maker to Take a [Pantera] Walk on Delayed Copyright Claims	McDermott Will & Emery
28 Apr	SCOTUS Set to Resolve Circuit Split and Decide Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Prosecutions	Polsinelli PC
27 Apr	Third Circuit’s Rejection of the “Objective Falsehood” Requirement under the FCA is Challenged	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
16 Apr	TCPA Quick Hitter: 5-Text-Standing-Dismissal TCPA Suit Appealed to Eleventh Circuit—Another Case Stayed Pending the Outcome	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 Apr	COVID-19 Update: COVID-19 and the Courts: Part II How Appellate Court Procedures Are Changing and What May Be Here to Stay	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
10 Apr	Rights of the Accused vs. Rights of the Victim: Colleges and Universities Must Walk a Fine Line When Handling Title IX Sexual Assault Claims	Wiggin and Dana LLP
8 Apr	District Court Sharpens Focus on Injury-in-Fact Requirement in Text Messaging Cases	Faegre Drinker
3 Apr	Dismissed! 5 Texts in Violation of TCPA Don’t Convey Standing	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
2 Apr	Class Action Ascertainability in the Eleventh Circuit: What Makes the Cut?	Bilzin Sumberg
2 Apr	New Argument Rejected: Fourth TCPA Blow to Ringless Voicemail May be the Most Painful One Yet	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
25 Mar	Don’t Feed Them: Pizza Hut TCPA Settlement Results in $2MM In Fees for Plaintiff’s Lawyers—and A Huge Potential Recovery for the NCLC	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
25 Mar	Desperate Times in TCPAWorld: Plaintiff’s Bid to Use Objections to Interrogatories as an Admission of Autodialed Calling Rejected in Latest Defense Judgment	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
18 Mar	An Incredible End to the Bad Reyes Saga: Court Vacates Certification and Summary Judgment Rulings and Dismisses Case!	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
17 Mar	11th Circuit Reverses Lower Court’s Decision to Dismiss Pro Se’s Third Amended TCPA Complaint, Holds Here That 4th Try’s a Charm	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
13 Mar	Failure to Allocate Between Covered and Non-covered Damages Bars Indemnity	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
11 Mar	Gin Manufacturer Bacardi Avoids Lawsuit for Its Use of “Grains of Paradise”	Proskauer Rose LLP
9 Mar	TCPA Litigation: Widening Circuit Split Over Autodialer May Drive Supreme Court Consideration	Polsinelli PC
9 Mar	Florida Federal District Court Rules GRAS Regulation Preempts Florida Statute Criminalizing Ingredient	McDermott Will & Emery
3 Mar	DOJ Cuts Bait in High-Profile Statistical Sampling FCA Case	Polsinelli PC
2 Mar	Recent Cases Hold that Policyholders Are Entitled to Insurance Coverage Under Various Types of Insurance Policies for Losses Associated with Social Engineering Schemes and Ransomware Attacks	K&L Gates
2 Mar	Landmark AseraCare Case Finally Ends in Settlement	Mintz
27 Feb	Big Win For Twilio: Huge Text Platform Earns All-Important TCPA Summary Judgment Ruling	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
26 Feb	First Lower Court in Eleventh Circuit Follows Glasser in Granting Summary Judgment in TCPA Case	Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
25 Feb	Docket Surprise: Court Sua Sponte Questions TCPA Class' Standing Because it Includes Single-Text Recipients	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP