16 results for 'judge:"Maze"'.
J. Maze finds that challengers to a city's ban on billboards lack standing because they did not argue that the ban is unconstitutional. The ban applies to all billboards, regardless of content, so it was not a prior restraint on speech. City officials denied permit and variance applications because of the ban and were not using unconstitutionally unbridled discretion. The challengers' facial argument also failed due to the absence of discretionary decision-making by officials.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: March 11, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv461, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Zoning, Jurisdiction, First Amendment
J. Maze grants a poultry processing company’s motion for summary judgment on a former employee’s disparate treatment, retaliation, and failure to accommodate in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The company terminated the employee while on medical leave. The employee fails to show evidence for an adverse action of discrimination or retaliation for failure to accommodate.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1292, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
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J. Maze grants Fiat Chrysler’s motion for summary judgment on product liability claims brought by a couple alleging defective product design, manufacturing defect and breach of warranty. The couple failed to prove that their Fiat 500X SUV caught fire in the driveway, then the fire spread to the home, because of a defective engine. They only brought their own photos of the fire and the fire report, and not any expert testimony that could point to Fiat Chrysler’s liability.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv980, NOS: Personal Injury - Product Liability - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Evidence, Product Liability, Warranty
J. Maze grants a bee company’s motion to dismiss counterclaims for falsely marking carpenter bee traps brought by a patent holder. The patent holder alleges the company’s selling carpenter bee traps on Amazon that infringes on his patent. The court finds the patent holder’s counterclaim fails to state a claim and is dismissed. The patent holder’s motion for leave to amend his false marking claim and motion for partial summary judgment are denied. The motion for leave to refile may be filed at the close of discovery.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: January 3, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1623, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Discovery, False Advertising
J. Maze grants, in part, a steel supply company and four coworkers’ motion to dismiss in this employment dispute brought by a former employee. The employee alleges race discrimination, sexual harassment, physical abuse by three coworkers, retaliation and he was wrongfully terminated for threating a lawsuit to the supervisor. The court dismisses the steel supply company on all claims, but the retaliation claim shall proceed since the former employee was terminated before he could file a EEOC complaint. The former employee may proceed against three of the coworkers on the assault and battery claims. The remaining parties must meet confer on the claims that persist.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: January 3, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv625, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Employment, Assault
J. Maze finds that the district court properly granted judgment for the debtor on most of the creditor's claims seeking to exempt debts owed by the debtor from being discharged in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy action. The district court correctly found that the debtor did not conceal property by splitting it into two parcels. The creditor failed to show the debtor knowingly withheld information about the property, made a false oath or tried to prevent the property from being discovered. However, the creditor pleaded a valid discharge exception for a $4 million transfer from the debtor's investment company to another account. The creditor pleaded facts which could show that the debtor obtained the investment company's money by actual fraud. Reversed in part.
Court: 11th Circuit, Judge: Maze, Filed On: November 2, 2023, Case #: 22-11118, Categories: Bankruptcy
J. Maze denies the Tennessee Valley Authority's motion to dismiss three cases arising from a fire at a dock that resulted in deaths, injuries and property losses. A 1963 indenture agreement, which conveyed certain property from the TVA to the county, is an indemnification agreement, rather than a release.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Maze, Filed On: July 28, 2023, Case #: 5:22cv15, NOS: Marine - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Maritime, Negligence, Wrongful Death