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Where claimant, a 58-year-old part-time janitor, was discovered unconscious at the foot of the employer’s stairs, with a pre-existing seizure disorder, a compensable claim has been established The fall is essentially unexplained and we so find. There is no evidence ...

Where defendant pled guilty to one count of an indictment and the remaining two counts were dismissed pursuant to a plea agreement, and where at sentencing the district court chose a federal guideline range and a point within that range ...

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denies the motion of appellant, The Citadel, to stay the mandate pending application to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari. Entered at the direction of Judge Niemeyer, ...

In this suit by several police officer who were required to take polygraph tests during an investigation of a shooting, the district court erred in ruling that defendant prosecutor was not entitled to qualified immunity in the officers’ suit under ...

Although the habeas petitioner, who was convicted of first degree sexual assault, contends that three separate instances of destruction of evidence violated his due process rights, he has failed to establish this claim and the denial of his habeas petition ...

Although the county buyer had informed plaintiff purchaser by telephone that the county had accepted the purchaser’s bid for the sale of three lots of the county’s surplus radio communications equipment, but the buyer also told plaintiff that the letter ...

Where the prosection based its case against petitioner, a farmer and academic accused of murdering his wife of 40 years, on the assumption that the burglary and rape crime scene and had been staged, and that the circumstantial evidence concerning ...

Where the parties’ property settlement agreement provided that husband would pay wife “as and for spousal support, alimony and maintenance,” a lump sum of $900,000 and monthly payments of $2,500 for 180 months, and other sections of the agreement also ...

Where the collision between a fishing vessel and pontoons or pipes of the marine construction company’s dredge occurred while the pontoons or pipes were separated from the dredge in a flotilla during transport, the damage to the pontoons or pipes ...

Where a West Virginia federal law suit alleges that plaintiff, an asbestos removal company, is liable for contribution for an environmental cleanup ordered by the federal government because of an alleged discharge, spillage and leakage from electrical equipment at the ...