United States Fourth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Meeker v. Edmundson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court properly refused to grant defendant-high school wrestling coach qualified immunity in a suit alleging that he violated the...

US v. Collins

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for a drug conspiracy conviction is remanded for resentencing where the district court did not properly take into account...

US v. Taylor

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A criminal defendant does not have a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel with regard to a post-conviction, post-direct...

Frasch v. Peguese

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Dismissal of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is reversed where the district court incorrectly ruled that it was untimely under the...

Bejarano-Urrutia v. Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is granted where the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in holding that plaintiff's conviction for involuntary...

White Tail Park, Inc. v. Stroube

Constitutional Law
The district court erred when it dismissed plaintiff's First Amendment claim, challenging a Virginia law which requires a parent or guardian to...

Logan v. JKV Real Estate Serv.

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure
The bankruptcy court erred when it determined that a bankruptcy trustee, as the assignee of certain creditors, did not have standing to sue to recover...

Roanoke Cemet Co. v. Falk Corp.

Contracts
Plaintiff is not entitled to indemnification for losses associated with the failure of a machine part that defendant helped manufacture where the...

Lontz v. Tharp

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
State wrongful discharge claims are not completely preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.

Brewer v. Nat'l Indem. Co.

Constitutional Law, Insurance Law
The district court erred in finding that plaintiff-administratrix lacked standing to pursue her claim against defendant for the negligent breach of...