Although defendant had a key to an apartment in which police later discovered over 108 grams of heroin in a footstool, and defendant was observed entering the apartment building empty-handed and leaving five minutes later with a sandwich-sized container, the ...

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The 4th Circuit says a district court did not err in dismissing as moot a coastal conservation league’s challenge to actions by the owner of 485 acres of freshwater wetlands the league claims is being converted to saltwater wetlands, allegedly ...

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The 4th Circuit denies an El Salvadoran citizen’s petition to review a removal order based on her claim that federal agents committed an “egregious” violation of her Fourth Amendment rights when they entered her home at 5:00 a.m., to execute ...

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A pipe fitter who injured his knee working for a shipbuilder is not entitled under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act to receive an award for temporary partial disability for a period during which employer could not offer light-duty ...

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The 4th Circuit affirms a 185-month sentence for a defendant who pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, making a false statement on a loan application and corrupt interference with federal tax laws, arising from his multi-pronged fraud scheme that ...

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The 4th Circuit says a district court did not err in finding respondent to be a “sexually dangerous person” subject to civil commitment under the Adam Walsh Act, despite his claim that he should have been allowed ex parte communications ...

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In these two consolidated cases, the 4th Circuit says the appointment of three members to the National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 4, 2012 was unconstitutional because the appointments were not made during the “Recess of the Senate” under the ...

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A 47-year-old man with a prior conviction for child molestation and a strong sexual fixation on prepubescent males, who has resisted treatment and continued to amass collections of child pornography while on parole or supervised released, has been shown to ...

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A property owner who operated a salvage automobile wholesaling business on a parcel adjacent to Andrews Air Force Base’s CERCLA Superfund site, and whose business was cited for numerous county code violations, loses an appeal of the dismissal of its ...

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In its second decision in a month, the 4th Circuit upholds the federal statute making gun possession by a person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence against defendant’s as-applied constitutional challenge; social science reports about recidivism among persons arrested for domestic ...

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