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Decided: December 19, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that private parties have standing in civil suits under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) to seek redress on behalf of federal government interests, and ordered the trial …
The Fourth Circuit held that the appellants—a number of state officials including Governor Nikki …
Decided: December 11, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s order compelling arbitration of a breach of warranty claim in accordance with a lease agreement between the parties.
Christine and Antwan Seney (the “Seneys”) …
Decided: December 10, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s civil commitment of the defendant, Richard Savage, as a “sexually dangerous person” under the United States Code. Savage appeals his commitment on the grounds …
Decided: December 3, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment and held that the defendant’s prior North Carolina state convictions, which sentenced the defendant in the mitigated rather than the presumptive range of …
Decided: November 22, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals (collectively, the agency) had substantial evidence to support an adverse credibility determination against Qing Hua Lin (Lin) …
Decided: November 18, 2013
The Fourth Circuit upheld the district court’s denial of Randall Justin McGee’s (“McGee”) motion to suppress evidence and further held that the district court did not commit clear error in its …
Decided: November 7, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s determination that two police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity or public officers’ immunity, respectively, in response to the plaintiff’s federal and state …
Decided: October 31, 2013
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the defendant’s 20002 South Carolina conviction for the common law crime of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature (“ABHAN”) is …
Decided: December 19, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the defendant’s thirty-two month sentence following the revocation of his supervised release. Because the district court appropriately focused its discussion on the Chapter Seven policy statements and …
Decided: December 17, 2013
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of defendant’s application for asylum and withholding of removal based on his claim that government officials would sterilize him if …
Decided: December 24, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that the United States District Court for the District of Maryland did not err in denying Reginald Dargan, Jr.’s (Dargan) motion to suppress evidence; that the district …
Decided: December 19, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia erred by aggregating the unnamed members of a proposed but uncertified class of defendant …
Decided: December 16, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that, under Maryland statutory law, Maryland common law, or Tennessee law, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland properly granted summary judgment to ACE …
Decided: December 11, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed Keith Simmons’s (Simmons) convictions for securities fraud and wire fraud, but reversed his conviction for two counts of money laundering because the transactions underlying these latter convictions …