Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals News

With all of his appeals now exhausted and Gov. Tim Kaine refusing to intervene, convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad will be executed at 9:00 p.m. tonight at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat, VA.

The Senate gave President Barack Obama a major victory Monday in his efforts to remake the federal courts, confirming a judge who will tip the political balance on the once-conservative appeals court based in Richmond.

Archived coverage of the shootings in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.

U.S. District Judge Andre M. Davis, shown in his Baltimore office in 2001, was President Obama's first pick to fill one of the five vacancies on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to block the execution of John A. Muhammad , the sniper who terrorized the Washington area seven years ago.

As detailed in this Washington Post article and this SCOTUSblog post , lawyers for "sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying 2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt their client's execution, saying he was paranoid and delusional during his trial." Here is how SCOTUSblog describes the ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a former North Carolina teacher convicted of taking children out of state to have sex with them.

The White House has nominated two North Carolina judges to fill seats on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court.

A coalition of New England states, energy consumers and a utility urged the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to reject a federal regulatory structure that coalition members said would hold people who already pay the nation's highest electric rates hostage to wholesale rates set by private companies.

President Obama has nominated two North Carolina judges to vacant seats on the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond.

Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline -- is a joint project of Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power to move electricity on 765,000-volt above-ground transmission lines from the coal-fired plant in Amos, W.Va., to an as-yet-unbuilt substation near New Market, Md., 275 miles and three states away.

Criminal Procedure Sentencing special conditions BOTTOM LINE: Where district court imposed special post-incarceration conditions as part of defendant's sentence, the conditions, which appeared to be unreasonable and unrelated to defendant's crime, were vacated because the district court provided no explanation for imposing them.

House Judiciary Committee's interest marks the first time Congress has flirted with recusal guidelines since a 2004 scrap between congressional Democrats and Justice Scalia David Ingram The National Law Journal November 02, 2009 Congress is preparing to wade into one of the most sensitive of issues for the federal judiciary: when a judge should ...

Updated at 4:55 p.m. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 200 miners who were not rehired after Massey Energy Co.

Referee Can Sue California For Allowing HIV-Positive Boxer to Fight Posted by Ryan Bates on 10.27.2009 A state Appeals Court overturns former ruling, allowing a referee to sue CSAC on grounds of negligence.

A lawyer for the state is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate Virginia's ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers.

Virginia's ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers is before a federal appeals court in Richmond.

A second former Coker College baseball player has been charged in connection with a crash that killed a Hartsville woman four years ago.

On a 96-0 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kanawha Circuit Judge Irene C. Berger as a federal judge on Tuesday.

The Justice Department has decided to again seek the death penalty against Richard Thomas Stitt, a Portsmouth gang leader convicted of ordering the murders of three men, prosecutors announced today.