The Eleventh Circuit today remanded back to the trial court a challenge to The Florida Bar advertising rules holding that the trial court improperly granted summary judgment for The Florida Bar. The court held that the lawyer challenging the Bar Rules “has made a sufficiently credible showing that the rules are unconstitutionally vague on their […]
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Eleventh Circuit Again Overrules $300,000 Jury Award For Plaintiff
In Howard v. Walgreen Co., the Eleventh Circuit held that that despite the fact a jury awarded the plaintiff $300,000 in damages, no reasonable jury could find for the plaintiff. I have difficulty understanding how a group of judges who didn’t hear the evidence could decide that the jury that awarded $300,000 to the plaintiff […]
Eleventh Circuit Holds Prison Liable for the Sexual Harassment of its Female Employees by Male Inmates
On Friday, The Eleventh Circuit upheld a sexual harassment jury verdict against the Florida Department of Corrections. In Beckford v. Fla. Department of Corrections, female employees were subject to rather explicit sexual harassment by prison inmates, including something called “gunning” (I will let you read the opinion for that definition). The employees repeatedly complained to […]