Richmond, VA

Challenge to district court's conclusion that TEDCO is an "arm of the state" entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity.

Whether district court erred in finding Appellants were statutory employees under South Carolina law.

Challenge under ADA and N.C. Gen. Stat. 95-28.2(c) to employee's termination based on positive drug test resulting from use of legal products containing THC.

Whether inmate failed to state a claim under RLUIPA or Free Exercise Clause related to prison's refusal to provide religiously compliant, nutritionally adequate diet.

When IJ presides over hearing from home rather than court, is IJ's "assigned work location" the home or the court; other issues.

Whether Virginia attempted murder and Virginia attempted unlawful wounding are crimes of violence; other issues.

Challenge to grant of summary judgment finding Lindberg, as guarantor, breached guaranty agreement by failing to pay arbitration award.

Whether plaintiffs failed to state a claim for unfair trade practices related to potentially misleading statements of costs for lab tests.

Whether N.C. statute providing that only licensed land surveyors may create and share aerial maps containing measurable information restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment.

Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to review EPA's decision which granted only a small amount of the relief requested in plaintiffs' petition.

Whether petitioner's prior convictions categorically qualify as crimes involving moral turpitude under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Propriety of ALJ's decisions regarding students special-education eligibility and alleged denial of parental participation.

Whether court erroneously determined that no genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether Defendant disciplined Plaintiff because of protected activity; other issues.

Whether district court erred in denying officer qualified immunity related to officer's actions in responding to a vehicle repossession in progress.

Whether applicant agreed to arbitrate in 2020 when employer's online system prepopulated a checkmark next to "I Accept" based on applicant's prior employment application from 2016.

Challenge to Agency interpretation of Medicaid Drug Rebate Program's "line extension" provision and what drug formulations qualify as a new drug.

Whether district court properly admitted certain propensity evidence and evidence of prior bad acts in child pornography case; other issues.

Whether sufficient evidence supports convictions for smuggling aliens to a place other than a designated port of entry; related issues.

Whether MSPB correctly found that it lacked jurisdiction over Appellants' Whistleblower Protection Act individual rights action; other issues.

Whether appeal of remand order in case brought under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) is interlocutory.

Whether petitioner had to choose between exercising Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination and Sixth Amendment right to counsel; whether petitioner's appellate counsel was ineffective.

Challenge to dismissal of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment, ADA, and RA claims related to long-term solitary confinement of mentally ill inmate.

Whether trial court erred in denying motion for mistrial where Government failed to timely disclose Brady evidence; other issues.

Whether substantial evidence supports agency's adverse nexus ruling in mixed motive, family-based social group case; other issues.

Whether district court correctly concluded that Timberland's boot design is unregistrable because it is functional and has failed to acquire distinctiveness.

Whether Government officer's alleged negligence resulted in foreseeable battery and was independent of tortfeasor's employment status, such that FTCA's intentional tort exception was inapplicable.

Whether district court erred in declining to permit entrapment defense; substantive reasonableness of sentence.

Whether plea is involuntary because of alleged law enforcement misconduct and Government's late disclosure of evidence that would have revealed the alleged misconduct.

Whether party had authority to call a funding referendum; whether district court properly determined that unauthorized action was ratified; other issues.

Whether stop for jaywalking was based on reasonable suspicion; whether search of handcuffed suspect's bag was based on credible threat to officer safety.

Whether agency improperly assessed hardship to U.S. citizen child in denying cancellation of removal.

Challenge to dismissal of subcontractor licensing fraud claim on partial summary judgment; other issues.

Whether district court correctly determined that absence of admissible expert testimony necessarily doomed plaintiff's deliberate indifference claim; other issues.

Challenge to grant of summary judgment in favor of officers in excessive/deadly force case. Responsive to FOIA request

Challenge to district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of DOJ related to agencys withholding of records.

Whether UVA hospital violated nurse's constitutional rights by terminating her for refusal to receive COVID-19 vaccine or seek medical or religious exemption; other issues.

Whether citizen-suit rights are inapplicable where EPA is proceeding in court after having issued an expiring administrative order, under § 303; related issues.

Whether error under United States v. Rogers, 961 F.3d 291 (4th Cir. 2020), exists with respect to supervision condition requiring warrantless searches.

Whether state court's denial of postconviction petition challenging voluntariness of guilty plea was contrary to clearly established law.

Whether Government filter team impermissibly performs judicial function when unilaterally designating seized materials as non-privileged.

Whether Feres doctrine bars medical negligence claim brought by inactive member of Air National Guard retroactively called to duty following treatment at military hospital.

Whether Petitioner has standing to assert a violation of NATO's Status of Forces Agreement; related issues.

Whether tax exemption under 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) constitutes receipt of Federal financial assistance under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.

Whether United Therapeutics correctly determined its § 41 research credit by excluding qualified clinical testing expenses.

Cross appeal challenging district court's judgment holding defendants jointly and severally liable and reducing punitive damages award.

Whether INA's Waiver Review Provision precludes judicial review of claims related to delays in processing applications.

Whether defendant's fingerprint on an easily movable notebook present at the crime scene established probable cause to search his car and apartment.

Whether district court's remand order based on Barton doctrine and enforcement of forum selection clause is reviewable; merits of district court's ruling.

Whether grant of COA is reviewable; whether counsel was ineffective in failing to introduce location records that would impeach key witness' testimony.

Whether sales-contract condition precedent to equipment sale was waived; whether any such waiver was retracted by demand to sign contract; other issues.

Whether district court erred in concluding that extraordinary and compelling reasons - health and family circumstances - warranted compassionate release.

Whether district court erred granting summary judgment to defendant in N.C. Retaliatory Discrimination Act, wrongful discharge claims.

Whether court erred in declining to consider First Step Act motion because defendant completed initial term and was facing supervised release revocation; other issues.

Whether receiver may transfer permits and execute coal mining subleases at the Chestnut Oak Surface Mine under terms of consent decree.

Whether court erred in sua sponte instructing jury regarding validity of uncontested search warrant; whether court should have given "mere presence" instruction; other issues.

Multi-issue challenge to district court's dismissal of claims against officers who planted evidence and falsely arrested plaintiff.

Sufficiency of objections to the magistrate judge's report; if objections were sufficient, whether complaint states a claim for relief.

Whether Defendant's warrant affidavit omitted relevant information to mislead the reviewing judicial officer; propriety of alternative qualified immunity ruling.

Whether website's Terms of Service authorizing marketing but not specifically prerecorded calls qualifies as prior express written consent under the TCPA; other issues.

Whether inmate stated a claim for which damages are available in light of Egbert v. Boule, 142 S. Ct. 1793 (2022).