A Bosnian citizen can be extradited from the U.S. for his crimes of torture of civilians when he served as a guard at an internment camp for Serbians in 1992; the 4th Circuit upholds denial of his petition for a ...

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Although a Turkish national testified that he married a U.S. citizen with the intent to establish a marriage, the district court was not obliged to instruct the jury that evading immigration laws was the “sole” reason he married or that ...

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A Honduran citizen’s prior Virginia conviction of unauthorized use of a vehicle was not a “theft offense” that would qualify as an “aggravated felony” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G); Virginia’s statute, Va. Code § 18.2-102, covers circumstances typically viewed as ...

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Although the city of Norfolk enforced its sign code against a property owner who displayed a 375-square-foot banner while embroiled in an eminent domain dispute with the city, the city’s sign ordinance does not violate plaintiff owner’s First Amendment and ...

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

An Argentinian company that sold finished leather goods to a North Carolina leather wholesaler “purposefully availed” itself of the privilege of conducting business in North Carolina by contacting the wholesaler in North Carolina, conducting repeated in-person solicitations and meetings on ...

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A defendant cannot take advantage of an amendment that eliminated the supervised release statute’s mandatory minimum sentence because the statute was amended after defendant committed the underlying drug and firearms offenses for which he originally was sentenced, but before he ...

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Defendant prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity in a suit by a convicted child sex offender who was beaten when he was briefly left alone in a prison recreation yard with gang members; the 4th Circuit reverses a denial ...

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A Baltimore local ordinance substituting a cost-of-living adjustment for a “variable benefit” in police and firefighter pensions did not impair plaintiffs’ rights under the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution because plaintiffs retained a state law remedy for breach of ...

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A federal district court has subject matter jurisdiction to consider civil claims for damages under the Alien Tort Statute against an American corporation for the torture and mistreatment of foreign nationals at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the 4th ...

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In this admiralty litigation over insurance coverage for damage caused by a tugboat that ran aground on a coral reef in 1998, the district court could apply the choice-of-law provision for New York law in the insurance contract between the ...

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