2018 Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 2501 - 2775 of 2775
Date: February 6, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2279
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated products liability cases involving a transvaginal mesh prescription device called Obtryx, the jury returned verdicts for plaintiffs, awarding over $4 million to each. The Fourth Circuit held that…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Number: 17-7188
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-1972, 17-1352, 17-1353
Justia Opinion Summary: BMG filed suit against Cox, alleging copyright infringement, seeking to hold Cox contributorily liable for infringement of BMG's copyrights by subscribers to Cox's Internet service. On appeal, Cox argued that the…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2296
Date: January 29, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1077
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2453
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit denied the Fund's petition for review of a decision awarding black lung benefits to a former coal miner. The court held that the ALJ's determination was supported by substantial evidence and the miner…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1187
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for Eden Park in an action alleging claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Specifically, plaintiff alleged that Eden Park failed to…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 17-4299
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of child pornography contained on a hard drive recovered at his home. Defendant challenged the warrant allowing the FBI…
Date: January 24, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1278
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-2247, 16-2416
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a putative class action against Saber, alleging that defendants failed to deliver contractually promised care and failed to comply with certain state law requirements. After removal to federal court, the…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4771
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit granted the Government's motion to dismiss defendant's appeal because his appeal was time-barred. The court rejected defendant's argument that the Government was tardy in filing the motion to dismiss…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1627
Justia Opinion Summary: Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens, 135 S. Ct. 547 (2014), did not undermine Palisades Collections LLC v. Shorts, 552 F.3d 327, 331 (4th Cir. 2008). In this case, Home Depot filed a Petition for Permission…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1995
Date: January 19, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-2267, 16-2269, 16-2271, 16-2272, 16-2273, 16-2275, 16-2276, 16-2280, 16-2281, 16-2282, 16-2283, 16-2284, 16-2285, 16-2286, 16-2287, 16-2288, 16-2289, 16-2290, 16-2365
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose out of litigation by family members of United States sailors killed in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole against the Republic of Sudan for its alleged support of Al Qaeda. The district court denied Sudan's…
Date: January 18, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4732
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for four counts of sex trafficking by use of force, fraud, or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. The court held that evidence was provided…
Date: January 18, 2018
Docket Number: 16-6833
Justia Opinion Summary: A civil commitment hearing under the Adam Walsh Act, 18 U.S.C. 4248, was not a "civil action" as that term is used in 18 U.S.C. 1658(a). The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's civil commitment order under the…
Date: January 18, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1145
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of Crazy Horse's motion to compel arbitration. In this case, Crazy Horse pursued a merits-based litigation strategy for three years and actively sought to obtain a…
Date: January 18, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1433
Date: January 18, 2018
Docket Number: 17-4120
Justia Opinion Summary: The offense of unlawful wounding under West Virginia law is a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the Sentencing Guidelines. The Fourth Circuit held that unlawful wounding is categorically a crime of violence under…
Date: January 16, 2018
Docket Number: 16-9566
Justia Opinion Summary: Movant filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), seeking authorization to file a second or successive application for a writ of habeas corpus to challenge his 2001 sentence of four life terms plus 45 years imposed by…
Date: January 12, 2018
Docket Number: 17-6355
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit held that defendant's civil commitment judgment was not void under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4) and the district court had discretion to deny relief under Rules 60(b)(5) and 60(b)(6). In…
Date: January 8, 2018
Docket Number: 17-6461
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment against plaintiff in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action primarily alleging that plaintiff's First Amendment Free Exercise Clause rights, as well as his…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2325
Justia Opinion Summary: A Baltimore City ordinance that requires pregnancy clinics that do not offer or refer for abortions to disclose that fact through signs posted in their waiting rooms, as applied to the Greater Baltimore Center for…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2408
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fourth Circuit vacated the district court's grant of summary judgment for MIA in an action alleging salary discrimination under the Equal Pay Act (EPA), 29 U.S.C. 206(d). The court held that the EEOC established a…
Date: January 3, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1773
Justia Opinion Summary: Voluntary retirement before the onset of a workplace injury's debilitating effects does not preclude the existence of a "disability" under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), 33 U.S.C. 901, 902.…
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