A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Virginia statute that automatically suspends drivers’ licenses for failure to pay state court fines and costs was stayed to allow the General Assembly an opportunity to repeal the statute. Background Before the court ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

An out-of-state citizen could bring a constitutional challenge against a statute that limited copies of the state’s registered voter list to state residents because the list was closely connected to political speech and the statute imposes both content- and speaker-based ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Robert B. King

The city lost its bid to dismiss a suit that alleges city officials are fining a church’s landlord for allowing the church to meet for Sunday services in a building zoned as a “limited industrial district,” although secular gatherings of ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

President Trump will no longer face a suit brought by Maryland and the District of Columbia over his alleged violation of the Emoluments clause after the court granted the president’s petition for writ of mandamus and concluded the plaintiffs lacked ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

After holding it had jurisdiction to entertain President Trump’s appeal from the district court’s decision “effectively” denying his immunity motion to dismiss, the court never reached the immunity question and, instead, held that Maryland and the District of Columbia lacked ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

Parties who entered into settlement agreements with the city of Baltimore arising out of alleged police misconduct will no longer be bound by a gag clause routinely included in those agreements after the court held the clause was unenforceable and ...

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

Although the plaintiff alleged facts showing the actions of the board of supervisors restricted the speech of others at the public hearing, he did not allege sufficient facts to demonstrate that he intended to speak or that he suffered self-censorship. ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Ivan D. Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A student who was significantly injured during gym class while playing a game that had previously injured students could not sue the school board for violating his right to bodily integrity because the school did not have a sufficiently special ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After the Virginia Attorney General elected to not appeal a lower court decision holding certain redistricting violated the Equal Protection clause because it was based on race, members of Virginia’s House of Delegates took up the appeal. However, the court ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme Court

Where the government allowed a jury to be empaneled and began presenting testimony despite the fact that a subpoenaed witness had not appeared in court, as required, for the first two days of trial, and a mistrial was granted on ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Barbara Milano Keenan