Richmond, VA

Whether oral agreement between insurer and insured was sufficient to cancel life insurance policy; other issues.

Whether, after purporting to terminate appellants supervised release, district court retained jurisdiction to reconsider decision.

Challenge to grant of summary judgment in favor of Duke Energy, finding no triable issue as to whether Duke’s conduct was anticompetitive.

Challenge to district court’s denial of class certification in international Ponzi scheme litigation.

Whether public right of access attaches to summary judgment documents when the case settles prior to a ruling on summary judgment.

Propriety of partial summary judgment; reduction of sanctions award recommended by magistrate judge based of on defendant’s discovery abuses; other issues.

Multiple issues arising out of lengthy jury trial and denial of motion for new trial based on officer’s engagement in criminal behavior.

Whether district court erred granting qualified immunity to officers in excessive force case.

Whether district court abused its discretion in denying Defendant’s multi-faceted motion for compassionate release.

Whether, under plain-error review, Apprendi error was harmless; whether district court erred in applying hate crime enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines; other issues.

Whether the district court erred in applying gross disproportionality doctrine rather than cost-to-complete as the measure of damages.

Whether district court abused its discretion in declining to rule on motion for preliminary injunction, relying on Younger and Burford abstention doctrines; other issues.

Propriety of district court's conclusion on bystander liability of some Defendants for excessive force claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; other issues.

Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to Defendants on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging Fourth Amendment unreasonable detention claim.

Whether evidence sufficiently corroborated Defendant's confession to multiyear drug conspiracy with major local drug dealer.

Whether state’s voluntary involvement in antitrust action against private corporation waived its sovereign immunity, such that state was subject to federal subpoena; other issues.

Propriety of Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) determination that contract’s condition precedent was ambiguous; propriety of denial of motion to withdraw stipulation.

Whether district court erred in determining that Florida Department of Emergency Management waived of sovereign immunity.

Whether order denying motion to dismiss based on failure to join necessary and indispensable sovereign party is immediately appealable under collateral order doctrine.

Challenge to district court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim in case involving law enforcement killing during a traffic stop.

Challenge to district court’s dismissal of Monell claim against defendant county based on prosecutors’ role in wrongful conviction.

Whether right-of-way agreement created one easement or two distinct easements; propriety of preliminary injunction based on right-of-way agreement.

Whether district court erred in holding certain provisions of TILA and RESPA do not apply to a HELOC mortgage loan.

Whether district court erred dismissing qui tam suit over relator’s objection without a hearing.

Challenge to district court’s order granting enforcement of settlement agreement in favor of defendant city.

Whether district court erred in shifting the burden after trial, requiring showing of non-genericness of mark; party presentation principle; other issues.

Whether admission of rap lyrics was unduly prejudicial; calculation of drug weight for Eutylone.

Multi-issue appeal, including challenges to district court’s refusal to bifurcate proceedings and decisions on admissibility of evidence.

Whether appellant is entitled to judicial review of agency’s notice of non-compliance.

Whether the appellant’s constitutional challenges to a county billboard ordinance are moot under the pending-ordinance doctrine; other issues.

Standing to appeal; whether bankruptcy court exceeded its authority by adopting local plan form mandating that property of estate vests after final decree.

Whether the district court erred in concluding that Petitioners failed to show that the arbitration panel manifestly disregarded the law.

Whether building contractor’s mold remediation qualified as “pollution loss” under insurance policy; other issues.

Whether district court had jurisdiction over declaratory judgment action regarding interpretation of Drivers Capitol Broadcasting Company, Incorporated Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2721.

Whether Appellees violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth related issues.

Whether solicitation of prostitution under Virginia law is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude.

Challenge to North Carolina’s sex offender registration scheme as ex post facto punishment. National Assoc. For Rational Sexual Offense Laws

Challenge to dismissal of stockholder claims against Directors related to deal that netted millions of dollars for common stockholders and nothing for preferred stockholders.

Whether district court erred in granting summary judgment to prison officials on excessive force and Fourth Amendment claims arising from body cavity search.

Whether defendant officers were properly awarded summary judgment on malicious prosecution and fabrication of evidence claims.

Whether district court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant cargo carrier in case involving cargo destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Multi-issue challenge to district court's dismissal of plaintiff’s IDEA claims.

Whether prison’s internal investigation fulfilled inmate-plaintiff’s administrative exhaustion requirement under PLRA.

Whether "loss", as used in USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), means only actual loss or also includes intended loss, as stated in the commentary to that provision.

Whether Virginia’s total THC standard is preempted by the Farm Act; whether sales restriction violates dormant Commerce Clause.

Challenge to district court’s finding of qualified immunity for officers who shot and killed an individual during a traffic stop.

Whether Virginia prison disciplinary code prohibiting inmate from encouraging others to participate in group demonstration is unconstitutional under void-for-vagueness and overbreadth doctrines.

Whether district court erred in granting defendant summary judgment on plaintiff’s discrimination claims.

Whether licensed substance abuse counselor plaintiffs failed to state a claim for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.

Whether Whitley’s convictions for Hobbs Act robbery and carjacking violate the Double Jeopardy Clause.

Whether district court erred in holding Eli Cove was not a navigable waterway for purposes of admiralty jurisdiction.

Multi-issue challenge to tax court’s disallowance of carry-forward charitable deductions for a conservation easement.

Whether decedent’s spouse had to present meritorious argument to preclude denial of Rule 60(b) motion when of the Navy substitute party had not been named.

Whether the court reversibly erred when it failed to afford Appellant an opportunity to allocute before the court imposed sentence; other issues.

Whether plaintiff adequately alleged the fax it received is an advertisement under the TCPA.

Whether Defendants were denied the right to a public trial when video feed did not show jury.

Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to police officer on Plaintiff’s excessive force claim; other issues.

Whether district court adequately explained fee award, and whether court erred in reducing claimed fees.

Whether involuntarily-committed Appellant alleged facts sufficient to overcome presumption of validity accorded professional judgments regarding prolonged restraint and seclusion; related issues.