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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act doesn’t give private plaintiffs a right to sue for injunctive relief, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in an issue of first impression. The decision deepens a split among ...

An international legal dispute that began with a fire at a Boeing plant in South Carolina is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it could end up significantly changing the way that companies that do business internationally resolve ...

Tagged with: Boeing Discovery U.S. Supreme Court

Nearly three years after a federal jury found that Walmart had infringed a competitor’s trademark in marketing its line of barbecue grills, a federal appeals court has determined that the trial didn’t cut the mustard. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Henry F. Floyd Trademark Trademark infringement Walmart

At some point, everyone dreams about having the power to hurry along the hands of time, to hasten the arrival of the weekend, or maybe a vaccine. Contract law gives lawyers something akin to this sort of power: the ability ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.

Charges against a Virginia man who was subjected to a warrantless search and seizure will be dropped after a full panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search violated in the Fourth Amendment in a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Henry F. Floyd Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Judge Julius N. Richardson Search and seizure

Recently I was doing some honest-to-goodness work editing North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, and I ended up getting sucked down an internet rabbit hole that convinced me that Article III of the U.S. Constitution, creating our federal judiciary, is in need ...