Published opinions from 2004. The case name opens the case page.
December 8, 2004392 F.3d 1283
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the County because McDowell did not show a widespread municipal policy, deliberate indifference, or a sufficiently direct causal link between the County’s budget decisions and his injury.
September 24, 2004385 F.3d 1324
The Eleventh Circuit dismissed the appeal without deciding whether Title III of the ADA applies to Southwest.com. The plaintiffs abandoned their district-court theory that the website itself was a place of public accommodation and raised a fact-dependent theory connecting the website to Southwest’s travel service for…
June 14, 2004372 F.3d 1250
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the claims against BellSouth and summary judgment for Ruden McClosky on Sarah Jones’s claims. It concluded that the alleged conduct did not establish RICO continuity, the complaints did not adequately plead intentional racial discrimination or a RICO conspiracy, Florida’s…
March 26, 2004363 F.3d 1155
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of disability benefits, concluding that substantial evidence supported the ALJ’s evaluation of the medical opinions and Crawford’s mental residual functional capacity.
January 26, 2004357 F.3d 1256
The court vacated summary judgment for Northern on Hickson’s Lanham Act claim because the district court overlooked consumer-survey evidence relevant to whether the advertisement was misleading, and it vacated the categorical rejection of Hickson’s remaining state-law claims for reconsideration under Georgia law.
The court held that the ALJ could discount the treating physician’s restrictive assessment for stated reasons supported by substantial evidence, but could not rely on the Medical-Vocational Guidelines without first resolving whether Phillips’s exertional limitations prevented a full range of sedentary work and whether…