United States Fourth Circuit

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Appellate Information

• Decided 06/16/2004
• Published 06/16/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Jonathan David Shaffer, Smith, Pachter, McWhorter & Allen, Vienna, Virginia, for Appellant.  Steven E. Gordon, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.