Northrop Grumman successfully argued that an employee’s complaint was not within the scope of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, and she therefore could not claim whistleblower protection under the Act. An ALJ’s order in favor of the employee was vacated. ...

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

Animal rights groups were not entitled to an injunction compelling the Fish and Wildlife Service to release proactively documents related to trophy imports of African elephants and lions under the Freedom of Information Act because the act only applies to ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy established in 2012 was arbitrary and capricious because the memo explaining that decision did not identify any basis for the department’s view that the program ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Albert Diaz

A nursing home violated the quality of care regulation governing Medicaid providers when it failed to provide a medical clearance for approximately eight months so that one of its residents could undergo a necessary tooth extraction surgery. Background The West ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker

A woman who came to the country on a visitor visa, and who then twice married U.S. citizens (during which marriages she gave birth to children fathered by another man) failed to show that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a decision to revoke a school’s accreditation after the school failed to meet graduation rate requirements relied on a recommendation made by a team that included the president of a competing school, the level of competition between the schools ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Allyson K. Duncan

Medicaid payments made to an authorized Medicaid provider were properly retracted by the state agency in charge of administering Medicaid because the provider failed to provide the agency with the results of background checks conducted on the provider’s employees as ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a property owner agreed to remove mine tailings from the property of an adjoining landowner after the adjoining landowner was notified that the mine tailings were discharging pollutants into a nearby stream, and the delay in removal, coupled by ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the state reduced certain services available to plaintiffs under its Medicaid waiver program, the plaintiffs could not sue the federal government for its failure to provide proper oversight of the state’s Medicaid program. Background Richard Stogsdill and Robert Levin ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Pamela A. Harris

Where a company sought to condemn surface tracts of private properties for the purpose of obtaining easements to construct a pipeline, and the construction of the pipeline could potentially damage coal contained within those properties, the company was not required ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Roger L. Gregory