Week 24 (2018)
Week of June 11, 2018 through June 15, 2018
Garnett v. Remedi Seniorcare of Virginia, LLC (Wilkinson 6/11/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that an employee can not hold their employer vicariously liable for an alleged defamatory …
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Garnett v. Remedi Seniorcare of Virginia, LLC (Wilkinson 6/11/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that an employee can not hold their employer vicariously liable for an alleged defamatory …
Cannon v. Vill. of Bald Head Island, N. Carolina (Wynn 5/30/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that city officials did not violate clearly established First Amendment protections …
Guevara-Solorzano v. Sessions (Brinkema 5/24/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that an alien’s Tennessee conviction for unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell constitutes …
Gordon v. CIGNA Corp. (Wynn 5/15/2018): The Fourth Circuit affirmed the District Court to hold that an insurance company was not required to make up the difference between …
United States v. Oceanic Illsabe Ltd (King 5/7/2018): The Fourth Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentences of two closely related foreign corporate entities after those entities …
Sheehan v. Ash (King 5/4/2018): The Fourth Circuit held in chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings, a state domiciled bankruptcy debtor is obliged to apply the domiciled state’s …
Cunningham v. Gen. Dynamics Info. Tech., Inc. (Floyd 4/24/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that Yearsley immunity is a jurisdictional bar to suit for a government contractor …
SD3 II LLC v. Black & Decker (Agee 4/19/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a saw manufacturing company could not claim fraudulent concealment to extend the …
No Fourth Circuit opinions were published this week.…
Ass’n. for Accessible Medicines v. Frosh (Thacker 4/13/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a Maryland statute, which prohibits price gouging in the sale of prescription drugs, …
United States v. Townsend (Shedd 3/30/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury is categorically a …
Pedro Jimenez-Cedillo v. Jefferson Sessions III (Harris 3/20/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that the Board of Immigration Appeals may not order an alien be removed based …
Sky Angel U.S., LLC v. Discovery Communications, LLC (Diaz 3/15/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a district court does not commit any error in allowing extrinsic …
Eric DePaola v. Harold Clarke (Keenan 3/9/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that a prisoner’s right to sue under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was not time-barred under …
Carlton & Harris Chiropractic v. PDR Network, LLC (Diaz 02/23/2018): The Fourth Circuit held that the sending of unsolicited faxes that offer free goods and services …