United States Fourth Circuit - July 2001 Opinion Summaries

MATVIA v. BALD HEAD ISLAND MGMT, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Silently suffering while a supervisor engages in sexually harassing behavior in order to receive promotions and pay increases does not amount to a...

US v. PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA SERVS., INC.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A corporate employee's self-incriminating statements to law enforcement officers are admissible against the corporation in a criminal case, where the...

HILLMAN v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERV.

Tax Law
Taxpayers may not legally deduct their passive management fee expenses from their related nonpassive management fee income for purposes of lowering...

MEDINA v. US

Injury & Tort Law
Although Congress consented to suit for malicious prosecution through the FTCA, 28 USC 2680(h), suits relating to INS agents' discretionary functions...

SCARDELLETTI v. DEBARR

Civil Procedure
A motion to intervene in a district court class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24 to challenge the settlement must be timely, whether...

DANG v. COMM'R OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Tax Law
Since the taxpayers stipulated to the liability claimed by the IRS, leaving only interest accrued as a remaining issue, the Tax Court did not abuse...

THE CHRISTIAN SCI. BD. OF DIRS. OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST v. NOLAN

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law
Even in the absence of a formal principal/agent relationship, a defendant's coordination with, and reliance upon, a volunteer's efforts in creating a...

KIELISCH v. EDUC. CREDIT MGMT. CORP.

Bankruptcy Law
11 USC 502(b)(2) does not preclude creditors from applying Chapter 13 bankruptcy estate payments to accrued postpetition interest on nondischargeable...

NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO.

Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB must assess whether an employee eligible for backpay would have been terminated in due course had the employer not terminated him unlawfully,...

BROWN v. GILMORE

Constitutional Law
A Virginia law mandating a moment of silence in classrooms does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution because it accommodates...