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Discovery loses appeal over CSC’s hiring of accounting exec
Silver Spring-based Discovery Communications LLC cannot sue the company that hired its chief accounting officer for tortious interference with contract, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held.
Towing-scheme conviction affirmed; restitution order shaved
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and 18-month prison sentence of a former Baltimore police officer for his role in a towing company extortion scheme, but reversed an order that he pay restitution to an insurance company because he had never been charged with insurance fraud.
4th Circuit upholds MS-13 member’s death sentence
A federal appeals court has upheld a gang member's death sentence for killing two brothers at a North Carolina restaurant, deciding, for the first time in the circuit, that the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses does not apply to the sentence-selection phase under the federal death penalty act.
Appeals court: Consumer case improperly sealed
A federal appeals court in Virginia says a judge improperly allowed a company to fight a complaint about the safety of one of its products in secret.
Appeals court upholds Snowden email firm contempt
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a contempt of court citation against an email service provider used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
4th Cir. gets Virginia AG’s gay-marriage brief
Same-sex couples have the same right to marry as interracial heterosexual couples, Virginia's attorney general said Friday in papers urging an appellate court to uphold a judge's ruling that the state's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.
Cafeteria manager can’t sue school board after retiring
A former Frederick Douglass High School cafeteria manager cannot sue after retiring in the midst of an investigation into a $995 shortfall in cafeteria funds.
Law digest – 4/10/14
MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Evidence, Confrontation Clause: The trial court did not violate defendant’s right of confrontation by admitting into evidence assistant medical examiner’s autopsy report through the testimony […]
Opinions – 4/10/14: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Criminal Law Restitution BOTTOM LINE: The district court did not err in ordering that defendant, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud and related charges, pay the victim company’s attorneys’ fees […]
Former inmate gets rare remand from 4th Circuit
A former inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center pulled off a rare judicial feat: He got a federal appellate panel to agree with him and send part of his civil-rights case back to U.S. District Court for reconsideration.
4th Circuit gets first brief on gay marriage ruling
A federal judge who struck down Virginia’s gay marriage ban usurped the state’s authority to decide whether same-sex unions should be allowed, a lawyer defending the ban said Friday.
Donning and Doffing: What would Cardozo do?
Judge Richard Posner is raising eyebrows with this opinion, in which he gleefully admits that he went out and bought safety equipment and timed three clerks as they put it on and took it off in chambers in order to test the reasonableness of the workers' claims in a "donning and doffing" case.
