The 4th Circuit affirms a bankruptcy court holding that terminated employees of debtor LandAmerica Financial Group “earned” their severance compensation on the date they became participants in the debtor company’s severance plan immediately after their termination, and rejects the trustee’s ...

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

Employees of a poultry-processing plant are entitled to be paid for time spent donning and doffing protective gear before and at the end of their work shifts, but the 4th Circuit says that time spent putting on and removing protective ...

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

At an accountant’s trial for preparing false tax returns, any error by the district court in referring to guilty pleas entered by two taxpayers for whom the accountant prepared the fraudulent returns was harmless, and the 4th Circuit affirms the ...

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

In this case involving contamination of a public water supply in Parkersburg, W.Va., the 4th Circuit upholds the district court’s decision that individuals who consumed the water but have not become ill as a result, do not have standing to ...

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

Foreclosure activity in Virginia has been steady for the past few years. But beneath the routine hammer-down on a debtor’s home, a question has lurked. What if the basic process used in Virginia to move these properties through the pipeline ...

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A district court had jurisdiction over a former West Point cadet’s habeas corpus petition filed after the Army denied his request for discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector, but the 4th Circuit reverses the district court’s grant of ...

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

The 4th Circuit says two environmental groups have standing to prosecute a citizen suit alleging defendant Gaston Copper Recycling Corporation violated the Clean Water Act, even after the death of the member of one of the groups who established standing ...

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

A defendant’s term of supervised release on a heroin conviction is tolled while he is in pretrial detention on other charges for which he is later convicted; the 4th Circuit agrees with the majority of its sister circuits that have ...

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Although South Carolina’s “sore loser” statute operated to deprive the Green Party of its preferred candidate on the general ballot, after this same candidate lost the Democratic Party nomination, the 4th Circuit says the statute, as applied to the Green ...

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

Petitioners, an Israeli husband and wife, are denied review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals pretermitting consideration of their applications for adjustment of immigration status under § 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; the 4th Circuit ...

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