Stacy Lewis v. Nancy Berryhill (Agee 6/2/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that Appellant’s application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income was erroneously denied by …
Int’l Refugee Assistance v. Donald Trump (Gregory 5/25/2017): The Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction of Executive Order No. 13780, which suspended the entry of certain …
United States of America and United States ex rel. Omar Badr v. Triple Canopy, Inc. (Shedd 5/16/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that the government properly alleged …
Michael Dreher v. Experian Information Solutions (Thacker 5/11/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that a defendant credit score provider’s practice of listing a defunct credit card company …
Grayson O Company v. Agadir International LLC (Motz 5/5/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that the defendant had not infringed upon the plaintiff’s mark, finding that the …
Patrick Booker v. South Carolina Department of Corrections (Gregory 4/28/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that an inmate’s right to freedom from retaliation for participating in an …
U.S. v. Raymond Surratt, Jr. (published order 4/21/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that an appeal challenging the President’s commutation of a criminal sentence was moot since …
U.S. v. Kaixiang Zhu (per curiam 4/12/2017): The Fourth Circuit affirmed the defendant’s convictions for conspiring to commit immigration fraud and aiding and abetting the fraud …
G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board (published order 4/7/2017): The Fourth Circuit vacated the district court’s preliminary injunction, which had halted a school board’s decision to …
LVNV Funding, LLC v. Derrick Harling (Agee 3/30/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that entry of a bankruptcy court’s Chapter 13 plan confirmation orders that treat unsecured …
U.S. v. Robert Winston (Keenan 3/13/2017): The Fourth Circuit held that Winston’s conviction for Virginia common law robbery did not constitute a violent felony under the …
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 …
Week of February 20, 2017 through February 24, 2017
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 …
Week of February 13, 2017 through February 17, 2017
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 …
Week of February 6, 2017 through February 10, 2017
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 …