2023

• 8/3/2023 A Refreshing Read from the Fourth
• 8/1/2023 Fourth Announces Significant Limitations Ruling

2022

• 8/17/2022 Important New Finality Rule From Fourth Circuit

2021

• 9/22/2021 Fourth Circuit Vacates Hirschfeld Gun Ruling
• 8/25/2021 Fourth Circuit Affirms Death Sentence in SC Shooting
• 7/13/2021 Fourth Circuit Issues Major Gun Decision
• 6/24/2021 Two Significant Rulings from the Fourth Circuit

2020

• 9/3/2020 Fourth Circuit Issues Major Abortion Ruling
• 6/9/2020 Fourth Circuit Issues Searing Qualified-Immunity Ruling

2019

• 7/10/2019 Fourth Circuit Decides Emoluments-Clause Appeal

2018

• 5/31/2018 A Chilling Affirmance from The Fourth Circuit
• 5/15/2018 Fourth Reverses Blount Habeas Order
• 3/6/2018 Fourth Circuit Decides Appeal in Inmate Death Case
• 2/15/2018 Fourth Circuit Rules in Travel-Ban Case

2017

• 9/25/2017 New 4th Circuit Ruling Explores Forfeitures
• 8/14/2017 Acronyms and Initialisms – How To Avoid Alphabet Soup
• 5/25/2017 En Banc Fourth Affirms Nationwide Travel-Ban Injunction

2016

• 6/28/2016 Fourth Announces Key Ruling on Fees
• 1/29/2016 Brisk Business at the Fourth

2015

• 7/10/2015 Fourth Affirms McDonnell’s Conviction
• 3/5/2015 Reading Between the Lines in the Fourth Circuit

2014

• 12/22/2014 Fourth Issues Three Important Rulings
• 12/16/2014 Fourth Invalidates Huge Tax Deduction
• 7/28/2014 Fourth Circuit Decides Bostic v. Rainey

2013

• 10/23/2013 Fourth Revives Dormant Commerce-Clause Challenge
• 7/23/2013 S. Carolina Immigration Law Preempted

2012

• 12/17/2012 Fourth Decides Duke Lacrosse Appeal
• 1/17/2012 Fourth Circuit Refuses Emergency Ballot Injunction

2011

• 12/8/2011 OB/GYN May Testify on Nursing Standard of Care
• 9/8/2011 Fourth Circuit Vacates Health-Care Rulings
• 5/13/2011 Fourth Isuses Recusal/Pro Hac Vice Opinion
• 2/3/2011 Fourth Decides Key Plea-Agreement Appeal

2010

• 12/24/2010 Fourth Issues Establishment-Clause Ruling
• 9/22/2010 Report on Judge Keenan’s Investiture
• 7/26/2010 Major Privacy Ruling from Fourth Circuit
• 5/19/2010 Fourth Issues Important Attorney’s-Fees Ruling
• 4/9/2010 Fourth Reverses First-Amendment Victory

2009

• 12/7/2009 Fourth Issues First-Impression Fees Ruling
• 12/3/2009 Fourth Issues Significant Post-Iqbal Ruling
• 8/6/2009 Fourth Circuit Jettisons Blackwelder
• 4/30/2009 Fourth Circuit Suppresses Evidence of Seized Gun

2008

• 11/12/2008 Fourth Rejects Congressman’s Appeal
• 6/2/2008 E-Filing Now Mandatory in Fourth Circuit
• 5/14/2008 Fourth Rules on Credit Reporting Act Appeal
• 3/31/2008 Fourth Circuit Reinstates EEOC Suit

2007

• 10/1/2007 Fourth Strikes Down Virginia’s Open Primary Law
• 9/5/2007 New Guilty Plea Ruling
• 6/11/2007 Fourth Circuit Issues Enemy Combatant Opinion
• 4/16/2007 Busy Day at the Fourth

2006

• 12/29/2006 Inmates Win RLUIPA Appeals
• 10/23/2006 New ERISA Ruing Goes Against Plan Adm’r
• 8/24/2006 Preemption, Remand Opinion from Fourth
• 7/11/2006 Objective Pain Evidence Unnecessary for SSI
• 6/28/2006 Important Injunction Ruling
• 5/22/2006 Fourth Circuit Vacancy News
• 4/27/2006 FMLA Isn’t a Job Guarantee
• 4/25/2006 Nonsignatory Can’t Compel Arbitration
• 4/11/2006 Think You Know What “Plain View” Means?
• 4/3/2006 Cert. Denied in Padilla Appeal
• 3/29/2006 Police Get QI Despite Raiding Wrong Dorm Room
• 3/22/2006 Moussaoui Musings, Rulings
• 3/14/2006 Two Rulings on Arrestees’ Rights
• 3/10/2006 Habeas Ruling Based on Mental Retardation
• 2/15/2006 Newspaper Loses Access Fight with Governor
• 1/31/2006 Fourth Rules Against Titanic Salvors
• 1/18/2006 Fourth Defines “Prisoner”
• 1/17/2006 Two Victories for Employees
• 1/12/2006 No Bivens Action Against Private Prison Employees
• 1/3/2006 Blakely Objection Preserves Booker Argument

2005

• 12/21/2005 4th Refuses Padilla Transfer Request
• 12/12/2005 Rulings on §1988 Fees, Immunity
• 11/28/2005 4th Issues ERISA, Criminal Rulings
• 11/21/2005 4th Issues Clean Water Act Ruling
• 10/21/2005 Driving on a Closed “Highway”
• 9/29/2005 No Arbitration in Homeowner’s Dispute
• 8/15/2005 4th Issues Soc. Sec. Att’y Fee Ruling
• 8/3/2005 State Secrets Doctrine Bars Suit
• 8/1/2005 4th Circuit Affirms Sealing of Files
• 6/20/2005 One Conspirator, One Conspiracy
• 6/13/2005 ADA, Rehab Act Claims Survive 11th Amendment Defen
• 6/4/2005 Analysis of RMCW v. Hicks
• 4/7/2005 When State Agengies Quibble Over Dollars
• 3/24/2005 New 4th Circuit Ruling on Terry Stops
• 2/2/2005 New Sec. 1983 Ruling from Fourth