Week 4 (2018)
Week of January 22, 2018 through January 26, 2018
West Virginia CWP Fund v. DOWCP (Harris 1/26/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a coal miner who suffers from respiratory impairment after working in coal mines …
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West Virginia CWP Fund v. DOWCP (Harris 1/26/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a coal miner who suffers from respiratory impairment after working in coal mines …
Avinesh Kumar v. Republic of Sudan (Agee 01/19/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that delivering process to a foreign nation’s embassy and identifying the head of that …
US v. William Welsh (Diaz 1/12/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that the custody requirement for civil commitment under the Adam Walsh Act does not limit a …
Greater Baltimore Center v. Mayor and City Council (Wilkinson 1/5/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that ordinances requiring pregnancy centers that do not offer abortion services or …
There were no published opinions this week.…
Paul Thompson, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Gregory 12/18/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that law enforcement officers are not entitled to qualified immunity when they intentionally …
Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke (Traxler 12/15/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that Virginia’s anti-sodomy statute, as authoritatively construed by the Supreme Court of Virginia, …
Rory Flynn v. SEC (Wynn 12/7/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a plaintiff’s disclosure of alleged employer misconduct is not protected by the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement …
Frontier-Kemper Constructors v. DOWCP (Diaz 11/30/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a coal mine construction company is liable and thus responsible for the payment of benefits …
Arlean Brown v. Brian Elliot (Motz 11/21/2017): The Fourth Circuit held a sheriff’s deputy is entitled to qualified immunity for shooting and killing a man during …
Teresa Hensley v. Michael Price (Agee, amended 11/17/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that the defense of qualified immunity does not apply to defendant police officers where …
Jeffrey Plotnick v. Computer Sciences (Duncan 11/8/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a recent amendment to defendant’s compensation plan under which the company’s board of executives …
US v. Melina Ali (Motz 11/3/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a defendant can be held in contempt when she fails to take any steps to …
United States v. Shawntanna Thompson (Motz 10/26/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a prior North Carolina conviction for assault inflicting serious bodily injury constitutes a “crime …
American Humanist Association v. Maryland-National Capital Park (Thacker 10/18/2017): The Fourth Circuit held a four-story-tall World War I memorial in the shape of a cross violates …