United States Fourth Circuit - June 2016 Opinion Summaries

Soilers, Inc. v. IRS

Tax Law, Government Law
In a Freedom of Information Act case, seeking documents related to the IRS' 2010 audit of plaintiff, the district court's grant of summary judgment to...

Vannoy v. Fed. Reserve Bank of Richmond

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Health Law
In an employment discrimination action, contending that defendant-employer interfered with and retaliated against plaintiff, a former employee, in...

Andrews v. America's Living Centers, LLC

Attorney's Fees
In an attorney's fees action, the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's action is reversed where: 1) an award of attorneys' fees are permissible...

Thana v. Bd. of License Comm'rs for Charles County

Civil Procedure, Administrative Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, arising after defendant revoked plaintiff-restaurant's alcoholic beverage license and related consent decrees and...

US v. Barcenas-Yanez

Sentencing
Sentence for conviction of illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. section 1326 is vacated and remanded for resentencing where...

Beltran v. Cardall

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking relief as next friend of her minor son, who is being held as an unaccompanied alien child (UAC) by...

Sarvis v. Alcorn

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a political figure in the Libertarian Party of Virginia's constitutional challenge to Virginia's three-tiered ballot ordering law, the District...

In re: McFadden

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas corpus application pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2254, the motion is denied where claim,...

Lawrence v. Lynch

Immigration Law, Administrative Law
In a native and citizen of Jamaica's petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision denying his motion to reopen as untimely and...

National Association for the Advancement of Multijurisdictional Practice v. Lynch

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary
In a challenge to the conditions placed on the privilege of admission to the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in...