United States Fourth Circuit - January 2018 Opinion Summaries

Kumar v. Republic of Sudan

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Reversing a district court order denying Sudan's motion to vacate, vacating the judgment and remanding, because the flawed service of process resulted...

US v. Maynes, Jr.

Sentencing, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirming the convictions of a man for sex trafficking, rejecting the defendant's arguments relating to the meaning of force and fraud and challenging...

Degidio v. Crazy Horse Saloon and Restaurant Inc.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Class Actions
Affirming the district court denial of the Crazy Horse gentleman's club's motion to compel arbitration in a putative collective and class action case...

US v. Covington

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Vacating the sentence of a man for distribution of heroin who received a career offender enhancement because the court determined that West Virginia's...

US v. Searcy

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirming a district court judgment that the government's certification of civil commitment a decade after a man's incarceration for using interstate...

Carter v. Fleming

Constitutional Law
Reversing and remanding a district court grant of summary judgment against a man who brought a pro se action alleging violation of his First Amendment...