Where a website that provides third parties with information about individuals was sued for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA, the Communications Decency Act did not immunize it from liability. Two of the counts did not seek to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Consumer Protection Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where the district court held an employee lacked standing because she alleged no injury, that was wrong. The employee alleged she was injured by a loss of employment and the resulting loss of wages and other benefits from an allegedly ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where a disabled prisoner alleged a nurse practitioner was deliberately indifferent when she denied his request for a handicap pass required to access a library, but he alleged no facts showing the nurse knew that he likely could not meaningfully ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where a man convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography was barred from accessing the internet, that was improper. A complete internet ban is almost always excessive for “non-contact child pornography activity, or similar conduct” where there was no actual ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where a Virginia consumer alleged that the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, was charging individual consumers too much for its electric power, the court lacked jurisdiction to review that claim under the Administrative Procedure Act because ratemaking authority is committed ...

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Where the district court concluded the government established at summary judgment that cash seized from the defendant and his girlfriend was the result of illegal drug trafficking, that was error. The government’s arguments relied upon inadmissible evidence, inappropriate inferences or ...

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Although a company agreed in a stipulated settlement agreement to enforcement of an order with the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, and agreed that the court should enter judgment against it, there was no case or controversy because the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Julius N. Richardson Labor

Where the relator’s False Claims Act claims were based on “classic conclusory language,” they were properly dismissed for failure to state a claim. And because plaintiffs do not get a “dry run” as a matter of right and district courts ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Julius N. Richardson Tort

Where the government argued that the proper venue was the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because an asylum applicant was located there when his petition was denied, but the venue statute looks to where the immigration judge, or IJ, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where the Internal Revenue Service issued a summons to a business, but the IRS is barred from issuing a summons to a person who is the subject of a referral, and there was an existing criminal referral to the business’ ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Julius N. Richardson