The Latest Breaking News from the Fourth Circuit

In Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, the Court vacated the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding Virginia Tech's Bias Intervention and Response Team Policy, on the grounds that the case had become moot. Justice Jackson would have denied the petition because of her views about when lower court decisions should be vacated…

United States v. Chatrie is heard in the Fourth Circuit.

"Appellant wants the option to hide behind a shield of anonymity in the event he is unsuccessful in proving his claim, but he would surely identify himself if he were to prove his claims."

From yesterday's decision by Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. (S.D. W. Va.) in W. Va. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. v. Morrisey (some formatting changed); note that the court upheld some other provisions of the law, which I discuss in a separate post: In March 2018, the West Virginia Legislature…

The judges recognize that Congress ended their ability to review the Mountain Valley Pipeline, but they seem none too happy about it.

The Supreme Court vacated a stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Huge tracts of land, Dad does The RICO, and poor prosecutorial behavior

Revisting Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline's developers seek Supreme Court intervention to prevent the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth CIrcuit from delaying its completion.

Is the exclusion of "gender identity disorders" from the ADA based on a "bare desire to harm"?

"After the change in Administration and in light of those intervening developments, the United States has reexamined its position and has concluded that state-law claims like those pleaded here should not be recharacterized as claims arising under federal common law."