Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals News

The chief judge of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has stepped down from her post -- citing a newly diagnosed permanent disablement -- and taking the South Carolina native's place is Circuit Judge William.

A federal appeals court has upheld a $510,000 verdict for a former South Carolina prison warden who sued two top officials at the state Corrections Department.

Just before the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for the summer last week, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

Massey Energy -- the largest coal producer in central Appalachia and a major mountaintop removal operator -- must rehire 85 union miners who lost their jobs after the company took over a West Virginia mine in 2004.

Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology Also Included In: Abortion ; Primary Care / General Practice ; Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 29 Jun 2009 - 4:00 PDT The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.

A federal appeals court this week upheld the 2007 conviction and prison sentence of Leeander Jerome Blake in the 2002 murder of Annapolis businessman Straughan Lee Griffin.

RICHMOND, Va. - A federal appeals court has upheld a decision requiring a Massey Energy subsidiary to hire union miners at a West Virginia mine.

Eighty-five members of the United Mine Workers Union are closer to getting their union jobs back at a mine in eastern Kanawha County now owned by Massey Energy.

A sheriff's deputy was justified when he barged into a home in the middle of the night without a search warrant, ending up in the bedroom of a 10-year-old girl who reportedly awoke in terror, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Richmond, Va., Jun 26, 2009 .- The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday upheld Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban.

Browse> Home / Catholic US News / Late-term Abortion Ban Protects - Weakest, Most Helpless Beings,' Federal Court Rules June 26, 2009 Richmond, Va., Jun 26, 2009 / 03:23 am .- The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday upheld Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban.

Today in Richmond Medical Center v. Herring , the Fourth Circuit en banc upheld the Virginia law on partial-birth "infanticide," with the six including Niemeyer, Chief Judge Williams, Wilkinson, Shedd, Duncan, Agee, and the five including Motz, Michael, Gregory, King, and Traxler.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is scheduled to speak at a judicial conference at The Greenbrier resort.

Police had no right to enter a home to investigate a domestic dispute since there was no suggestion that anyone was in danger, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court two years ago ordered the appeals court to revisit the issue when it upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 , a federal law similar to the Virginia law .

A federal appeals court in Richmond has found that the owners and operators of a capsized Baltimore water taxi cannot sue the U.S. Coast Guard for erroneously certifying that it could carry up to 25 people.

A sharply divided federal appeals court upheld Virginia's ban on a type of late-term abortion Wednesday, ruling that the statute does not unduly burden a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy by more conventional means.

The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear arguments over a federal law that allows the government to confine "sexually dangerous" prisoners in mental hospitals after they've served out their sentences.

June 22, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court has reached a decision in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act.

A long-running lawsuit involving a shady life insurance settlement company, a bevy of questionable insurance policies and a murdered porn shop owner has finally settled.