When sentencing defendant on his guilty plea to failure to register as a sex offender as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), the district court did not err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release that defendant undergo ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

The 4th Circuit affirms a 188-month sentence for a defendant who pleaded guilty to four counts of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, based on his status as an armed career criminal; because the district court ...

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Although a Kenyan woman who had worked as a maid for defendants in Saudi Arabia and in the U.S. only received monthly base pay of $400 instead of the $1,600 recited in her contract, the 4th Circuit affirms summary judgment ...

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A profoundly deaf plaintiff detained as a sexually dangerous person wins remand of his suit alleging the federal Bureau of Prisons violated his civil rights by failing to provide him with an American Sign Language interpreter during medical treatment and ...

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The 4th Circuit upholds an award of medical benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act for a pipefitter’s treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, including his treatment for a vertebra fracture diagnosed as having been related to claimant’s ...

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A staffing agency nurse assigned to a hospital has malpractice coverage under the hospital policy’s professional liabil­ity coverage, even though the hospital policy’s general liability provision ex­cludes an agency nurse from coverage; the 4th Circuit affirms judgment for the agency ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Insurance Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

In sentencing defendant, a Salvadoran native, for illegal re-entry into the U.S., the district court did not err in determining that defendant’s prior Maryland conviction of third-degree sexual offense for sexually as­saulting his estranged wife was a “crime of violence”; ...

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The 4th Circuit reverses denial of disabil­ity insurance benefits and supplemental security income for a 32-year-old man who suffers from back pain, breathing and mem­ory problems, anxiety, depression and black­outs; the administrative law judge erred by not conducting a function-by-function ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

Even though there was no Spanish transla­tion of removal charges for a defendant from Mexico charged with illegal reentry into the U.S., he still would have been removed to Mex­ico, the 4th Circuit says as it reverses a district court’s ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

Petitioner, a citizen of the Democratic Re­public of the Congo who entered the U.S. on a phony Canadian passport and who admit­ted he had submitted a false asylum claim but said he was otherwise law-abiding, is not entitled to a ...

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