United States Fourth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

RGC (USA) MINERAL SANDS, INC. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
Where a supervisor's statements show that the basic decision to assign swing shifts to mechanics without regard to seniority was motivated by...

SMYTH v. RIVERO

Attorney's Fees, Family Law, Government Benefits
Where plaintiff-welfare applicants initially obtained a preliminary injunction and later reached a settlement of their claims with the defendant, they...

OVERNITE TRANSP. CO. v. NAT-L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
In considering whether, under the principles of NLRB v. Gissel, 395 U.S. 575 (1969), the NLRB properly ordered a company to bargain with a union that...

US v. JACKSON

Criminal Law & Procedure
District court did not err by denying defendant's motion to suppress statements he made to the arresting officer regarding the presence of a firearm...

US v. MEYERS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant, who failed to object to the presence of an alternate juror during deliberations, was not entitled to a new trial, where presence of...

MABREY v. FARTHING

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
District court correctly concluded that the qualified immunity defense was not available to defendants at time of their summary judgment motions, and,...

HUNTER v. WILLIAMS

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Where an attorney had a good-faith basis for asserting the legal position she propounded, and the district court had an erroneous view of the law, the...

BEAUMONT v. FED. ELECTION COMM'N

Elections
The absolute ban on contributions and expenditures in the Federal Election Campaign Act, 2 U.S.C. S 441b(a), and its implementing regulations, cannot...

BURBACH BROAD. CO. OF DELAWARE v. ELKINS RADIO CORP.

Contracts
Under West Virginia Law, it is unclear whether a Letter of Intent to purchase a company is a binding agreement but, at the very least, such a letter...

FOSTER v. ARLETTY 3 SARL

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Foreign companies that negotiated, drafted, and executed a contract in France with a dual US and French citizen residing in South Carolina did not...