United States Fourth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Passaro

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's assault conviction is affirmed, where the "premises" of Asadabad, Afghanistan, where the offense occurred, constituted a United States...

US v. Raby

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's child pornography sentence is vacated where the district court improperly applied a presumption of reasonableness to defendant's...

Muhammad v. Kelly

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter, the denial of the habeas petition is affirmed where: 1) a previously undisclosed ballistics report did not exculpate...

Brown v. Nucor Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from the denial of plaintiffs' motion for class certification in an employment discrimination action, denial of the motion is vacated...

The Real Truth About Obama, Inc. v. Fed'l. Elec. Comm.

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to Federal Election Commission regulations claiming that the regulations chilled plaintiff's right to disseminate...

US v. Cox

Asset Forfeiture, Attorney's Fees, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the government's appeal from an order awarding petitioner attorney-s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, the order is reversed where the...

Matrix Capital Mgmt. Fund, LP v. BearingPoint, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In a securities fraud action, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to adequately plead scienter under the Private Securities...

Smith v. Ozmint

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action against prison administrators under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) for forcibly shaving plaintiff's...

Walker v. Prince George's Cty.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant-officer wrongfully seized plaintiff's wolf, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed...

George & Co., LLC v. Imagination Entm't Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark infringement action regarding the name of a dice game, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) there was no evidence that...