A divided federal appeals panel has overturned the convictions of three accused drug distributors because a jury never was asked if the charges were brought in the right locality. A two-judge majority of a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Criminal Judge Irene C. Berger Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Judge Robert B. King

Although the defendant claimed his federal gun charge could not be based on his Virginia conviction for domestic violence because he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a jury trial in Virginia as required under federal statute, ...

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The fraud claims of Chinese investors who each invested approximately $500,000 in a start-up car company without reading the underlying investment documents were dismissed because the investors could not have justifiably relied on stray misstatements made by the company’s founders ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Commercial Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

By Bill Cresenzo BridgeTower Media Newswires An insurance company that denied benefits to a disabled plant manager in the face of overwhelming evidence of his total disability has been rebuked sharply by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ...

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A life insurance carrier could not ignore the opinions of every doctor who examined a former employee and found that strokes and other health problems meant he would never be able to work again, in favor of its own consultant, ...

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The fraud claims of Chinese investors who each invested approximately $500,000 in a start-up car company without reading the underlying investment documents were dismissed because the investors could not have justifiably relied on stray misstatements made by the company’s founders ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Commercial Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A satellite television provider is responsible for a $61 million judgment because its outside sales agent violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, by calling persons on the national Do-Not-Call registry. Background Dr. Thomas Krakauer brought suit against Dish ...

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A defendant who pleaded guilty to taking custodial indecent liberties with a child, a felony under Virginia law, was deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act because the offense categorically qualified as the aggravated felony of sexual abuse of a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

An individual who received grand jury subpoenas seeking financial records for his companies, and who then provided false records to a United States Attorney, could not argue he intended merely to influence the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and not the grand ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency was not required to accept a standard proposed by a wastewater treatment plant that utilized an older methodology previously used by the EPA. Moreover, the EPA’s decision to examine the standard using the most innovative technology ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III