2011 Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: April 18, 2011
Docket Number: 09-1947
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a complaint against defendants, Virtual City Vision, Inc. ("VSV") and Van James Bond Tran ("Tran"), alleging federal, state, and common law claims when defendants' newportnews.com domain name was…
Date: April 14, 2011
Docket Numbers: 08-2370, 09-1928
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a complaint against defendant alleging that defendant was violating the Clean Air Act ("Act") by constructing a coal-fired power plant without a determination that the power plant would achieve a level…
Date: April 13, 2011
Docket Number: 09-4834
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, while on federal supervised release, absconded and remained a fugitive for 13 years. After his apprehension, the district court found that defendant had committed multiple supervised release violations from…
Date: April 13, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1486
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a West Virginia coal sales company, sued Mountain State Carbon, LLC ("Mountain State")and its member companies, on of which was Severstal Wheeling, Inc. ("Severstal Wheeling") in federal district court…
Date: April 12, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1500
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, on her child's behalf, applied for survivorship benefits under the Social Security Act where the child was conceived by in vitro fertilization after the child's biological father, plaintiff's husband, passed…
Date: April 8, 2011
Docket Number: 08-4486
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed two convictions related to the mailing of communications containing threats against various persons, including the President of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 876(c). At issue was…
Date: April 8, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1166
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a complaint against defendant asserting six common law claims, individually and on behalf of a class of customers of the Parkersburg City Water Department, related to the contamination of their municipal…
Date: April 6, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1413
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed an order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants, each of whom was related to plaintiff's employer, where plaintiff alleged religious and speech-based discrimination claims, as well as…
Date: April 4, 2011
Docket Number: 10-2441
Date: April 1, 2011
Docket Number: 09-2024
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued defendant, Freightliner, LLC ("Freightliner"), alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ("Title VII") and North Carolina law after Freightliner terminated plaintiff. At issue was whether…
Date: March 31, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1365
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed an Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") denial of a refund claim after an investigation revealed that plaintiff had so under-reported its 1994 income that there was sufficient tax liability to use up all…
Date: March 31, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1702
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, relatives of a participant of a life insurance plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("Metlife") when Metlife awarded life…
Date: March 29, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1333
Justia Opinion Summary: The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ("Commissioner") challenged the way that defendants reported a series of transactions with investor partners in defendants' 2001 and 2002 federal tax returns. At issue was whether…
Date: March 28, 2011
Docket Number: 09-2086
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants alleging that the seal provisions of 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(2)-(3) of the False Claims Act ("FCA") were unconstitutional. At issue…
Date: March 28, 2011
Docket Number: 09-2304
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued defendants when defendants stopped reviewing the additional signatures that had been submitted for a referendum due to a pending legal challenge filed by a third party which was unrelated to defendants'…
Date: March 24, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1439
Date: March 24, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1439
Date: March 22, 2011
Docket Number: 09-1697
Date: March 22, 2011
Docket Number: 09-1697
Date: March 18, 2011
Docket Number: 09-2346
Date: March 18, 2011
Docket Number: 10-1375
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