 |
|
 |
|
|
Access State and Federal Case Law, plus U.S. Supreme Court cases — for free!
Click on any of the case links below to view the full text of that case — for free — through lexisONE®, a legal research and news service from LexisNexis®. Login is required — registration is free!
While viewing the full text of the case, select from upgrade options to Shepardize® or view the fully-featured case on lexis.com including Core Terms, Shepard's® Signals, Case Summaries, Print Options, and more. lexisONE offers access to comprehensive content and flexible services for faster, more efficient legal research. Review our flexible LexisNexis® subscriptions offered through daily, weekly or monthly research packages.
| Choice Hotels Int'l, Inc. v. Sonora Sun Mgmt. L.L.P., No. 05-1009,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: District court's denial of franchisees' motion to open, modify, or vacate a judgment in favor of a franchisor, which was based on a confession of judgment in a franchise agreement, was affirmed because the franchisees failed to present sufficient evidence showing that they had a meritorious defense to the confession of judgment.
|
|||||
| Formica v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., No. 04-2243,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Grant of summary judgment to an insurer in an employee's ERISA action was affirmed where the district court correctly reviewed the insurer's decision to deny the employee long-term disability benefits for reasonableness, and there was no error in the district court's conclusion that the insurer had reasonably interpreted the terms of the plan.
|
|||||
| Jacksonville Airport, Inc. v. Michkeldel Inc., No. 05-1242,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: In a debtor's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, a creditor was properly denied the right to vote on the confirmation of the debtor's plan where the creditor had no right to vote on the plan, pursuant to 11 U.S.C.S. § 1126(a), because the creditor's claim was not deemed allowed under 11 U.S.C.S. § 502(a) due to the debtor's objection to the claim.
|
|||||
| Miles v. Angelone, No. 05-6879,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability, under 28 U.S.C.S. § 2253(c)(1), was denied where he failed to demonstrate that reasonable jurists would have found both that district court's assessment of his constitutional claims was debatable or wrong and that any dispositive procedural rulings by district court were also debatable or wrong.
|
|||||
| Negri v. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co., No. 05-1828,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Dismissal of employee's breach of contract and fraudulent inducement claims was affirmed where employee failed to state a claim for breach of contract because no contract other than a letter was before court and employee had not alleged any breach of that letter, and employee could not have shown that he reasonably relied upon a misrepresentation.
|
|||||
| Plemons v. Gale, No. 05-1947,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Although tax lien purchaser did not search public records when notices sent to owner of right to redeem property were returned as undeliverable, search would have been futile, as owner's address was not in public records. Thus, purchaser was entitled to summary judgment in owner's suit to set aside deed to property obtained through state tax-sale.
|
|||||
| United States v. Foster, No. 04-4385, No. 04-4550,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: District court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress statements regarding handgun in car because police officer's comment--that he couldn't believe that defendant did not have a gun--was not reasonably likely to elicit incriminating response; thus, defendant was not under interrogation or its functional equivalent when he made statements.
|
|||||
| United States v. Jeter, No. 04-7623,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Defendant's Sixth Amendment rights were not infringed by his sentence and the district court did not commit plain error in sentencing defendant to a 135 month term of imprisonment where the sentence imposed by the district court fell well below the sentencing range authorized by the facts to which defendant admitted.
|
|||||
| United States v. Spence, No. 04-5073,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, January 19, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
|
|||||
Back to Top
| www.lexisnexis.com | About LexisNexis | Terms & Conditions | Customer Support | Sitemap | Contact Us |
| CopyrightŠ 2008 LexisNexis® All rights reserved. |
