In this international custody dispute, a mother who married and had her son in Switzerland, where father still lived, was not liable for wrongful removal under the Hague Convention for taking the child to the U.S. to visit her sister ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Domestic Relations Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

(AP) — In the violent world of piracy, Mohammad Saaili Shibin was a multilingual negotiator based in lawless Somalia, working his cellphone to negotiate multimillion-dollar ransoms for merchant ships and sailors that dared to venture into pirate-infested international waters off ...

Tagged with: Criminal Federal Courts Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Judge Henry F. Floyd Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

The 4th Circuit reverses a sentencing order insofar as it required defendant to pay $685 in restitution for a homeowner’s broken window and homeowner’s deductible, on defendant’s conviction pursuant to a plea agreement to possession of a stolen firearm; the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

Here’s how missing the Super Bowl can get your case into federal court. Residents of two NoVa subdivisions chafed under contracts that said they could subscribe to one, and only one, cable provider. The folks in Lansdowne on the Potomac, ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Anthony J. Trenga Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Real Estate

In these appeals arising from disputes over liability for hazardous substance cleanup at a former fertilizer manufacturing site in Charleston, S.C., the 4th Circuit affirms a trial court order that holds both the current and former owners responsible for costs ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

A homeowners’ association did not adequately allege standing to sue a wire-based video services provider on a claim that its contract making it the sole provider to the subdivision violates the FCC Exclusivity Order, but the 4th Circuit says the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Procedure Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

(AP) The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Virginia anti-sodomy law that remains on the books a decade after a similar Texas statute was invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 2-1 ruling March 12, a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Federal Courts Judge Albert Diaz Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Judge Robert B. King

The 4th Circuit upholds reduction of a sentence for a defendant convicted in 1998 of intent to distribute crack cocaine and distribution of powder cocaine, as the district court did not clearly err in holding that it had not originally ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

A man who waived his benefits under his ex-wife’s ERISA retirement and insurance plans in a divorce settlement cannot rely on the preemption doctrine for protection from a state court action by the ex-wife’s parents to enforce the divorce decree ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Diana Gribbon Motz U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 4th Circuit reverses summary judgment for Montgomery County, Md., in a megachurch’s challenge to zoning regulations that prevented the church from building a new facility in an area zoned as “rural density transfer zone”; the church says the county’s ...

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