Week 9 (2017)
Week of February 27, 2017 through March 3, 2017
In Re: William Robert Gray, Jr., (Gregory 2/28/2017): The Fourth Circuit found Gray’s § 2254 petition challenging his conviction for first-degree murder was his first petition …
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In Re: William Robert Gray, Jr., (Gregory 2/28/2017): The Fourth Circuit found Gray’s § 2254 petition challenging his conviction for first-degree murder was his first petition …
Robert Marcellus v. Virginia State Board of Elections (Niemeyer 2/21/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that § 24.2-613(B) of the Virginia Code, which provides that only candidates …
United States ex rel. Brianna Michaels and Amy Whitesides v. United States (King 2/14/2017): The Fourth Circuit found that the Attorney General of the United States …
Richard Beck v. Robert McDonald (Diaz 2/6/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a plaintiff does not have Article III standing for incurring costs to protect from …
US v. Deshawn Dozier (Davis 1/30/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that sentencing courts must compare the state and generic elements of general attempt statutes as well …
Brown & Pipkins, LLC v. Service Employees Int’l Union (Diaz 1/23/2017): The Court held that a deferential standard of review is applied to arbitration awards and …
Gregory Birmingham v. PNC Bank, N.A. (Lee 1/18/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that escrow funds, insurance proceeds, and miscellaneous proceeds constitute incidental property, which entitles the …
Brilliant Semenova v. Maryland Transit Administration (Thacker 1/10/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that the statute of limitations under the Americans with Disabilities Act is three years, …
Brandon Pegg v. Grant Herrnberger (Agee 1/4/2017): In this excessive force case, the Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded the decision of the District Court for the …
Decided: May 4, 2016
The Fourth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the case for further proceedings.
The parties entered into a ninety-nine year lease in an effort to construct a …
Decided: May 5, 2016
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment.
In 2006, William Charles Morva was in jail in Virginia on several charges. He was in jail for a year before escaping prison …
Decided: July 5, 2016
The Fourth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of the indictments and remanded the district court’s ruling for further proceedings.
On January 15, 2015, Appellees, Gaston Saunders, Bryan Daniels, Michael …
Decided: June 1, 2016
The Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded the district court’s decision.
Sometime before 2005, Agustin Lopez-Collazo, a native Spanish speaker who understood little, if any, English, illegally entered the United States from …
Decided: May 31, 2016
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision.
In 2015, a panel of the Fourth Circuit affirmed convictions of defendants Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan related to their part in a …
Decided: May 19, 2016
The Fourth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings.
In July 2011, law enforcement in Virginia began investigating the distribution …