Given the overlap between charges of drug conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for one defendant in this multi-defendant prosecution of a Tidewater drug ring, virtually all the evidence supporting the drug conspiracy count was potentially probative of the money laundering ...

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The 4th Circuit dismisses a police officer’s interlocutory appeal of an order denying him qualified immunity in the fatal shooting of a Fairfax optometrist during his arrest on illegal gambling charges, and his estate’s cross-appeal of the district court order ...

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In a “rare” move, the 4th Circuit upholds vacatur of an NASD arbitration award of compensatory damages to three Raymond James financial advisors from Richmond who alleged wrongful termination by the financial services firm. On appeal, appellants argue that when ...

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The 4th Circuit orders resentencing because a comment by the Virginia federal sentencing judge suggested he viewed the lower end of the sentencing guidelines as presumptively correct in a case involving crack cocaine and marijuana. Kinsey Cory Herder appeals his ...

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A district court erred in believing a defendant convicted of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine base could not be sentenced to a term less than 96 months, and the 4th Circuit vacates defendant’s sentence and remands for resentencing. After ...

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In this first-impression case, a national account director for a diagnostic-instrument manufacturer who allegedly uncovered inadequate internal controls and misrepresentations to shareholders, gets a de novo proceeding of his Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case in federal district court, and the 4th Circuit ...

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