United States Fourth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Sharpe v. Director Office of Workers' Comp. Programs

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Petition for review of a widow of deceased coal minor's challenge to an adverse decision and order retroactively denying decedent's claim for black...

Dankam v. Gonzales

Civil Rights, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of applications for political asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied...

Abdel-Rahman v. Gonzales

Civil Rights, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of application for asylum and withholding of removal is affirmed over claims that the BIA erred in deciding that: 1)...

Three S Del., Inc. v. DataQuick Info Sys., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a dispute over payments for use of a database cataloguing real property features and transactions, denial of motion to vacate a multimillion-dollar...

US v. Soriano-Jarquin

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Immigration Law
Conviction for re-entering the U.S. after deportation is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) a Virginia State Police officer violated his Fourth...

Nat'l Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc. v. Liberty Elec. Power, LLC

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a suit involving the payment of a termination fee for an electricity tolling agreement on behalf of a bankrupt party to the agreement, judgment for...

Lendo v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of motion to continue removal proceedings is denied where petitioner was not eligible for adjustment of status when he...

Covenant Media of S.C. v. City of N. Charleston

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In civil rights suit brought by billboard operator challenging constitutionality of sign regulation, summary judgment for defendant city is affirmed...

Carolina Trucks & Equip., Inc. v. Volvo Trucks of N. Am., Inc.

Contracts, Transportation
In case involving one of defendant's Georgia subsidiaries selling used trucks in South Carolina, but without a location there, and where plaintiff had...

IntraComm, Inc. v. Bajaj

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In breach of contract and fraud action, summary judgment for defendants on state law claims, and partial summary judgment for plaintiffs on minimum...