United States Fourth Circuit - January 2001 Opinion Summaries

YOUNG v. CITY OF MOUNT RANIER

Civil Rights
Where police subdued someone on PCP using pepperspray, then left him face down and alone at emergency room, his parents' claims for failure to protect...

SEC. AND EXCHANGE COMM'N v. ZANDFORD

Securities Law
Where defendant's fraudulent actions were not sufficiently connected with a securities transaction, federal securities laws do not reach a claim for...

HCMF CORP. v. ALLEN

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits
Where a federal policy, rather than a federal statute, creates a federal right, a proposed amendment to the complaint may contain a different claim,...

VIRTUAL WORKS, INC. v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AM.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Where company founders admitted a dual purpose in registering domain name - designating their own company, but also selling to trademark holder if the...

BRADFORD v. ROCKWELL SEMICONDUCTOR SYS., INC.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Where plaintiff failed to show that a fee-splitting provision made the costs of arbitration prohibitive, or that he was deterred from pursuing his...

BALTIMORE SCRAP CORP. v. THE DAVID J. JOSEPH CO.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law
Surreptitiously financing citizen group litigation in state court to prevent or delay another company's entry into the market does not violate the...

ABRAHAM v. COUNTY OF GREENVILLE

Civil Rights
Recording the phone calls of judges who have offices in the county detention facility is not part of the ordinary course of law enforcement duties,...

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMM'N v. SARA LEE CORP.

Labor & Employment Law
Where employee's epilepsy does not substantially limit her major life activities to an extent beyond that of the general population, she is not...

AMAECHI v. WEST

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A search which results in an male law enforcement officer's hand slightly penetrating a woman's naked genitalia is not a reasonable search within the...

GRIGGS v. E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Petitioner may have a remedy where ERISA fiduciary breached its obligation by leading petitioner to believe that he was eigible for a tax-deferred...