A grandmother who violated child protective orders by allowing the parents to vacation with the children, and who, in the opinion of an evaluator, overestimated her ability to meet the demands of the growing children, was not a candidate for ...

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Requiring a defendant to notify employers and family members of his status as a sex offender and prohibiting him from working with or otherwise contacting minors were appropriate, but conditions barring him from accessing material depicting sexually explicit conduct and ...

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Where a defendant referenced his involvement with a drug trafficker alleged to be his coconspirator and made multiple allusions to firearms in his rap lyrics and police recovered an illegal firearm and several items associated with drug trafficking from a ...

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Where a class action lawsuit resulted in the dismissal of 10 out of 64 plaintiffs and settled for a total damages award of only 3% the initial amount sought, an award of attorneys’ fees that was almost double the amount ...

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After a Maryland federal district court judge issued an injunction enjoining the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing new federal regulations with respect to the funding of family planning services in Maryland, the appellate court, over a dissent, ...

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Where the wife of a deceased mine worker sought to review an audit of the company’s pension plan to challenge its prior benefits decisions, the district court’s ruling denying her access is reversed and she can use the audit for ...

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Where a wife’s counsel withdrew prior to an equitable distribution hearing and the wife was given 11 months to retain new counsel before such hearing was held, the denial of her request for additional discovery, made more than six months ...

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Although the claimant had previously been injured at work, and then felt faint during physical therapy for that work-related injury, there was insufficient evidence to connect the man’s fainting to the injury. Background On Aug. 11, 2016, while undergoing physical ...

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A company which asserted trade secrets claims against three high-level management employees and their new companies, only to drop them after the close of discovery, will not be sanctioned for its conduct because the evidence showed the company had at ...

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Where an insurance company first began providing coverage for a coal company one day before a miner resigned from the company, and the miner was first diagnosed with legal pneumoconiosis approximately one month later, the insurance company was liable for ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Per Curiam Opinion Workers' Compensation