11th Circuit -- Recent Cases

The 11th Circuit has released 18 opinions in the last couple of weeks, and we'll summarize them here over the next few postings. Briefly, though, four of the opinions (Rivera, Delgado, Niftaliev and Morales) address similar asylum or withholding of removal claims; and five of the opinions (Martinez, Presley, Dean, Quirante, and Thomas) address various criminal issues, the latter two primarily related to sentencing.

Of the civil cases, two (Edwards and Bodie) interpret Alabama law, two (Asbestos Settlement Trust and Smith) involve some federal procedural issues, and two (Jordan and Dyer) are Section 1983 cases. Finally, there is an interesting decision regarding applicability of the student exception to FICA to medical residents (USA v. Mt. Sinai), a 1st Amendment case involving a South Beach dance club and a noise ordinance (DA Mortgage), and a case analyzing whether the FLSA applies to travel to and security screening at the worksite (Bonilla).

Stay tuned for more details...