The Eleventh Circuit has dropped its face mask and social distancing requirements for court visitors who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while planning to resume in-person hearings in June.
Instead, she and her chief of staff used nearly all the money to pay for such things as luxury vacations, galas, NFL games and Beyoncé concert tickets for themselves.
Only $1,200 went to scholarships, the fraud indictment against her charged. As a result, the 12-term Democratic congresswoman lost her bid for re-election in 2016 and stood trial in a federal criminal court in Jacksonville the following year.
This was a slam-dunk case. Her chief of staff pleaded guilty and provided evidence against Brown at her trial. And there was a paper trail.
Prospective jurors in her case were screened carefully about any information they may have heard outside the courtroom and their own “political, religious or moral beliefs” that might hamper them in being impartial jurors.
Major Victory for Religious Liberty of JurorsBy Jordan Sekulow16204041167851620404116785
We just scored a major win in court for religious freedom. Through the efforts of the ACLJ legal team – and the power of prayer – we successfully helped defend the right to pray. Even in a jury box, where God’s wisdom and guidance may be most crucial.
We recently told you how in 2017, a United States district court in Florida removed and replaced a juror because of his religious beliefs. During the course of jury deliberations, the juror (Juror 13) mentioned his prayer for guidance about the case to his fellow jurors. His statements were misconstrued by a fellow juror, who reported his statements, leading the court to question him.
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The Eleventh Circuit has joined the Second, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits in rejecting administrative feasibility as a prerequisite for class certification. The decision reverses unpublished Eleventh Circuit authority and deepens a circuit split with the First, Third, and Fourth Circuits on the issue.
In
Cherry v. Dometic Corporation, 18 owners of gas-absorption refrigerators manufactured and sold by Dometic Corporation sued the company over alleged product defects. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class consisting of “all persons who purchased in selected states certain models of Dometic refrigerators that were built since 1997.” At the class-certification stage, the parties each addressed whether the proposed class satisfied Rule 23’s ascertainability requirement. Plaintiffs argued, among other things, that the proposed class was ascertainable because the class definition relied on objective cri