All posts tagged "11th cir."
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12Appellate JudgesJury Verdicts Are Rarely Overturned. It Was In This Case, In Favor of the University of Florida
The district court granted USFBOT’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, overturned the jury’s verdict on DeBose’s retaliation claim, and...
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10Appellate JudgesEgregious Conduct, an Unconscionable Scheme and Perjured Testimony. It’s the 11th Circuit and it Sounds All Too Familiar.
The court concluded it was an unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate this matter by...
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25Appellate CircuitD.C. Dismissed One Hundred Percent – 478 Judicial Complaints – over an 11 Year Period
In the 11-year period that ended Nov. 30, 2017, the District of Columbia Circuit had received 478 complaints of judicial misconduct, 100%...
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31Appellate JudgesQualified Immunity: Hooks v. Brewer, No. 18-10628 (11th Cir. June 19, 2020)
The Supreme Court held that a warrant fails to provide probable cause if it includes a "deliberate falsity or . . ....
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53Eleventh CircuitTexas Lawyer and ‘Evil’ Co-Conspirator Jail Sentences Affirmed by Eleventh Circuit and Judge Sitting by Designation
The government’s evidence showed that the conspiracy had fraudulently obtained millions of dollars from scores of victims. The district court found Ellis’s...
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262Appellate JudgesClass Action Legal Ethics are Different Says Creative Eleventh Circuit And Relying On Old 5th Cir. Precedent
Experience teaches that it is counsel for the class representative and not the named parties, who direct and manage these actions. Every experienced...
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604AccelerationNo Glossin’ Required on a Void Order Sayeth The Constitution. Fraud By The Court Commands Reversal.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that federal courts possess the inherent power to vacate their own judgments upon proof that a...
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377Appellate JudgesSo Many Lies Chief Judge William H. Pryor, 11th Circuit
George W. Bush-appointed Chief Judge William Pryor delivered the contentious 6-4 ruling. He was joined by several other judges who were appointed...
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270Appellate JudgesPro Se Obtains Reverse and Remand from 3-Panel at Eleventh Circuit
A pro se author, Benjamin Vient, convinced the 3-panel at the Eleventh Circuit to revive his copyright infringement lawsuit against a Florida...
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2.1KFederal LawFifth Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement Understands the Various Badges of Fraud in Law. The Caveat is Lawyers Are Immune
An individual badge of fraud is not conclusive, but a concurrence of many badges in the same case will always make out...
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2.3KJudgesJudge Kenneth ‘Ken’ Marra and the Lyin’ Lawyers
The Burkes hold Judge Marra’s assertions to be false, untruthful and for the purposes of this judicial complaint, personal and pervasive bias...
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1.3KAppellate JudgesEvery Tom, Dick and Harry Wants to Seal Records, But That’s Not How the Courts’ Work. Well, Theoretically
Secrecy is fine at the discovery stage, before the material enters the judicial record. But those documents, usually a small subset of...
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1.3KAppellate JudgesMotion to Intervene is a Right of The Press and the Public
The public thus has a right to access complaints in pending cases, in the weeks before an answer is filed, in the...
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1.3K2Appellate JudgesIf you want to Talk to a Judge, Head for the Beach House, not the Court House
Eugene Volokh; This First Amendment right of access extends to “documents and records that pertain to a proceeding in which one or...
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