United States Fourth Circuit - July 2010 Opinion Summaries

US Airlines Pilots Ass'n v. AWAPPA, LLC

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In US Airline Pilots Association's (USAPA) suit against the America West Airlines Pilots Protective Alliance, LLC (AWAPPA) and others, pursuant to the...

McBurney v. Cuccinelli

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Attorney General of Virginia and others, claiming...

Ostergren v. Cuccinelli

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to Virginia's Personal Information Privacy Act, which prohibits intentionally communicating another individual's social...

Sloas v. CSX Transp. Inc.

Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a sheetmetal worker's suit against his employer for sustaining on-the-job injuries, pursuant to Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), district...

State of North Carolina ex rel. Cooper v. Tennessee Valley Auth.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
District court's entry of an injunction requiring immediate installation of emissions controls at four Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) electricity...

H.B. Rowe Co. Inc. v. Tippett

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a contractor's suit challenging a North Carolina statute that requires prime contractors to engage in good faith efforts to satisfy participation...

US v. Pettiford

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, district court's order granting defendant's petition for post-conviction...

S. Carolina Green Party v. S. Carolina State Election Comm'n

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action by an individual and the South Carolina Green Party challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina's "sore-loser" statute, as...

Brown v. N. Carolina Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendants-correctional officers were deliberately indifferent to the serious harm he suffered at...

US v. First Kuwaiti Gen. Trading & Contracting Co.

Construction, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's qui tam suit under the False Claims Act against his former employer, claiming that the company billed falsely for deficient work in...