U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1997

The court held that the Commissioner’s decision ending Lewis’s disability benefits was not supported by substantial evidence because the ALJ did not give proper weight to the opinions of Lewis’s treating physicians or adequately establish good cause for discounting them.

The court reversed summary judgment because the evidence, viewed in Allen’s favor, created genuine disputes about whether the plant was permeated by abusive sexual conduct and whether that conduct was sufficiently pervasive to give Tyson constructive notice of Wood’s alleged harassment.

The Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the government on Holifield’s race-discrimination and retaliation claims, adopting the district court’s reasoning. The district court found that Holifield had not established a prima facie case of disparate treatment and, alternatively, had not shown that the agency’s…

The court held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s in forma pauperis screening provisions apply to pending cases, that its prisoner filing-fee requirements survive rational-basis equal-protection review and control over conflicting appellate rules, and that Rule 12(b)(6) standards govern dismissals under the Act.

The Eleventh Circuit held that Meadowcraft was entitled to judgment as a matter of law on Combs’s failure-to-promote claim because the evidence did not permit a reasonable jury to disbelieve Meadowcraft’s explanation that it selected Walker for his superior supervisory experience.