Where a detainee asserted deliberate indifference claims against prison and medical officials after his small bowel obstruction allegedly caused a permanent injury, but he made only collective allegations against all “Defendants,” without identifying how each individual defendant personally interacted with ...

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Where a man alleged that his federal due process rights were violated when South Carolina determined that he was ineligible for parole, but the record showed that he was provided a statement of the reasons for the decision and an ...

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Where a daughter of a man who died of carbon monoxide poisoning at his city-owned apartment alleged the city elected to apply its carbon-monoxide detector policy only to privately owned apartments, understaffed its inspectors and personnel, operated a non-uniform repair ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Negligence

Where a motion based on fraud or misrepresentation under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(3) must be filed “no more than a year after the entry of the judgment or order or the date of the proceeding,” the deadline isn’t subject ...

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Where multiple environmental organizations challenged a final rule that affected how federal agencies would conduct reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, but each of their categories of alleged damages was unripe, the suit was dismissed. Background A ...

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Where an insurer defending its denial of long-term disability benefits argued that courts in this circuit are required to resolve ERISA denial-of-benefits cases via summary judgment and that the district court here thus erred in dispensing with this case through ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Insurance Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

Where the estate of a detainee who died from liver cancer sued the chief physician who designed the medical treatment guidelines, the physician was entitled to qualified immunity. The law was unsettled on whether similar treatment guidelines pass constitutional muster ...

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Where a North Carolina statute requires a life insurer to mail a letter to the insured’s last known post-office address “in this State,” but the insured here had informed the carrier that she had moved out-of-state and the carrier’s letter ...

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Where the immigration judge’s written order indicated that a defendant waived his right to appeal, even though this was never discussed during the hearing, and the defendant established a reasonable probability that he would not have been deported but for ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Immigration Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

Where a detainee suing for civil rights violations moved for sanctions after learning that videos of his physical altercation were not preserved, and he timely objected to a magistrate judge’s decision denying his motion, the district court must consider the ...

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