Week 1 (2021)
Week of January 4, 2021 through January 11, 2021
Dean v. Jones (Harris 1/4/2021): The Fourth Circuit held that the district court misapplied the summary judgment standard and agreed with the appellant that the record …
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Dean v. Jones (Harris 1/4/2021): The Fourth Circuit held that the district court misapplied the summary judgment standard and agreed with the appellant that the record …
Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. v. EPA (Agee 11/17/2020): The Fourth Circuit concluded that while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did answer most of the questions brought to …
United States v. Brinkley (Motz 11/13/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that officers, armed with an arrest warrant, lacked probable cause to enter an apartment where they …
Adams v. American Optical Corp. (Floyd 11/6/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that Virginia’s two-year statute of limitations on personal injury claims barred the plaintiff-appellant’s (Adams) allegations …
Sicaran v. Barr (Wilkinson, 10/30/2020): Sicaran v. Barr (Wilkinson, 10/30/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the petitioner’s arguments that she belonged …
United States v. Horowitz (Niemeyer 10/20/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that when an individual signs tax returns that falsely state that he or she has no …
Middleton v. Andino (9/28/2020: reh’g granted en banc) (9/30/2020: denying the motion for a stay pending appeal): A majority of non-disqualified judges in active service voted …
Grimm v. Gloucester Cnty. Sch. Bd. (Floyd 9/22/2020): The Fourth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing a case en banc where it previously held that the …
Barrett v. PAE Government Services, Inc. (Traxler 9/15/2020): The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor the defendants—two Arlington County, Virginia …
United States v. McCain (Rushing 9/10/2020) The Fourth Circuit held that sentencing a seventeen-year-old to life in prison without the possibility of parole did not violate the …
Finch v. Covil Corp. (Motz 8/24/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that the district court’s jury instructions gave proper guidance to determine whether the manufacturer’s insulation constituted a …
United States v. Millender (Motz 8/17/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that, in the context of a wire fraud and money laundering conviction, where there was evidence that …
Salley v. Myers (Gregory 8/10/2020): The Fourth Circuit held that the district court misapplied the summary judgment standard to a malicious prosecution claim in favor of …
Mey v. DIRECTV, LLC (Rushing 8/7/2020): The Fourth Circuit concluded that the Wireless Customer Agreement between the plaintiff-appellee, Diana Mey, and the defendant-appellant DIRECTV, LLC, included …
United States v. Wayda (Thacker 7/27/2020): Previously, the district court declared the defendant incompetent to stand trial. Six months after that determination, the Government filed a …