United States Fourth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Branch

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for drug- and firearm-related offenses is affirmed where: 1) there was no question that the police were allowed to detain...

US v. Henry

Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of defendants' motions to dismiss their indictment related to marijuana growing is reversed, and their convictions and sentences vacated and...

US v. Siegel

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for numerous fraud-based offenses including mail and wire fraud, pretrial exclusion of other crime evidence and striking of...

Iko v. Raley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a survival and wrongful death action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 following inmate's death after being forcibly removed from his cell...

US v. Farrior

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and sentence for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine is affirmed over defendant's challenges to: 1) a denial of...

Welch v. Chao

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Petition for review of a ruling finding that petitioner's discharge by respondent-employer did not violate the whistleblower protection provision of...

CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Rhodes

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law, Military Law
In a defamation case centered around U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where radio-host defendant's...

S. Carolina Dept. of Disabilities & Special Needs v. Hoover Universal, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In product liability actions seeking damages from defendant's sale of defective trusses and sheathing, an order vacating summary judgment rulings for...

Nourison Rug Corp. v. Parivizian

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Debt Collection
In an action brought by plaintiff-rug manufacturer to recover on a debt guaranteed by defendant, ruling and grant of summary judgment for plaintiff is...

Sartin v. Macik

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
A state default judgment, entered as a penalty for a party's failure to comply with a North Carolina court's discovery order, does not have collateral...