After filing a charge of discrimination, a Bed Bath & Beyond manager sent a separate letter alleging that her supervisor encouraged her husband to cheat and retaliated when she complained. A federal court held that these claims weren’t part of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After filing a charge of discrimination, a Bed Bath & Beyond manager sent a separate letter alleging that her supervisor encouraged her husband to cheat and retaliated when she complained. A federal court held that these claims weren’t part of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Civil Procedure Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An administrative law judge erred in according little weight to a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services determination that the Social Security claimant qualified as disabled. The ALJ also didn’t consider the limited extent to which the claimant ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Disability Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Social Security

A Department of Social Services employee who worked in secret for a Department contractor had adequate opportunities for notice and hearing in the proceedings leading to his termination. Background Appellant John Carpenter was employed as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Tagged with: Administrative Employment Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

In a suit targeting U.S. military agencies’ failure to report information that should have prevented the Sutherland Springs shooter from obtaining his weapon, the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco failed to allege a concrete injury or discrete ...

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

A Taliban fighter’s conviction for conspiring and attempting to destroy a U.S. helicopter in 2009 was subject to the rules of non-international conflict under the Third Geneva Convention, and accordingly U.S. courts could adjudicate and review it. Background Appellant Irek ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Constitutional International Law Judge Henry F. Floyd

A law student who was denied testing accommodations by the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners should have sought state-court review. In addition, the Board was immune from the disability claims, and the student failed to state a Fourteenth Amendment claim. ...

Tagged with: Administrative Attorneys Civil Rights Disability Equal Protection Fourteenth Amendment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Workers’ Compensation Commissioner correctly interpreted a provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act to set forth a disjunctive set of proof standards, of which the claimant need satisfy only one to show permanent total disability. Background Appellee Carson Vanover, currently ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The Board of Immigration Appeals erred in concluding that Virginia’s obstruction-of-justice offense qualified as a “crime involving moral turpitude” that heightened the burden on an immigrant petitioner challenging his removal. Background Petitioner Jose Ramirez, a citizen of El Salvador, first ...

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

The Commission erred in concluding that an EMT, who had previously felt light-headed but never fainted when seeing large needle injections, showed that his loss of consciousness was caused by observing a spinal injection. Background On July 1, 2016, Appellee ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation