15 results for 'judge:"Quattlebaum"'.
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court improperly denied the officer’s motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity. A repossession representative called the police after the vehicle's owner refused to get out so he could tow it. The owner argued that the deputy who arrived and ordered her out of the vehicle violated her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures of property by crossing the line from keeping the peace into actively participating. Because of the unique nature of the case and lack of case law, the deputy couldn't have known what he was doing was unconstitutional when he ordered her out of the car. Reversed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 23-1344, Categories: Constitution, Vehicle, Police Misconduct
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The creators of TImberland boots sought to register certain features from the design of its popular boot under the Lanham Act as trade dress. The law prohibits the registration of product designs that have not acquired a distinctive meaning identifying the product with its maker in the minds of the consuming public, including Timberland boots. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 23-1150, Categories: Patent, Trademark, Agency
J. Quattlebaum upholds the dismissal of two parents’ claims challenging the constitutionality of their county school board’s election process for choosing a high school student-member of the board. It does not violate the free exercise of religion because the county does not allow any sort of private school, religious or nonreligious, to participate in selecting the student member. It does not violate the equal protection clause because the process does not need to conform to the principle of “one person, one vote,” as prospective student members do not participate in a popular election but instead are appointed for what is essentially a civics laboratory. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: February 28, 2024, Case #: 22-2294, Categories: Education, Elections, Equal Protection
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the insurance company. Patients sued a pediatric clinic after discovering the clinic’s in-house psychologists had lied about her credentials. The clinic's insurance company proved they could rescind its policy because the owner misrepresented that she had thoroughly checked her employees' credentials. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: February 16, 2024, Case #: 22-1994, Categories: Health Care, Insurance, Contract
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly dismissed the sexually dangerous person's petition. He was civilly committed as a sexually dangerous person after completing his sentence for child pornography charges. While civilly committed, he was convicted of and sentenced for two separate federal crimes and served prison terms for those sentences. His civil commitment continued following those criminal sentences as it should have because he was never declared not a sexually dangerous person. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: February 14, 2024, Case #: 22-6338, Categories: Sex Offender, Commitment, Child Pornography
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J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court improperly dismissed the employee's claims for being time-barred. The university fired the employee in April 2019 after a graduate student submitted a report that the two were dating while she was a student. The employee unsuccessfully appealed the university's decision in June of 2019. Two years later, in May of 2021, she brought federal due process claims within two years of the university's decision to deny her appeal. Reversed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: January 9, 2024, Case #: 22-1441, Categories: Education, Due Process, Employment Discrimination
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly ordered the internet provider to pay rent for the utility duct. The internet provider rented the duct and could not come to terms with the railroad company over a lease renewal. They submitted the dispute to three appraisers, who decided the rent by a two-to-one vote in the railroad company's favor. The arbitration agreement requires the internet provider to pay the amount set by the appraiser, even if the vote wasn't unanimous. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 22-1554, Categories: Arbitration, Transportation, Contract
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly imposed a sentence at the top of the robber's guidelines for refusing to name his accomplice. The robber and his accomplice robbed a Waffle House and grocery store in a few hours. The robber argued that the lower court violated his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by imposing a harsher sentence due to his failure to identify his accomplice and drawing adverse inferences from that failure but failed to raise his concerns during the trial. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: November 21, 2023, Case #: 21-4442, Categories: Firearms, Robbery, Self Incrimination
J. Quattlebuam finds the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the police officers on an unlawful entry claim. A woman wanted to get some belongings out of the home she and her then-husband shared, but he locked her out due to an argument, leading to her calling the police. Considering the two were on and off again living together, the police had reason to believe that the wife had the authority to allow the deputies to enter the residence despite her not owning the home. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: September 13, 2023, Case #: 22-1082, Categories: Trespass, Domestic Violence, Police Misconduct
J. Quattlebaum finds that the lower court improperly held that the bankruptcy code preempts the debtor's state law claims arising from alleged improper collection attempts of a discharged debt. The state law claims providing broader remedies than federal laws does not mean the state law claims are preempted when taking into account that the bankruptcy code seeks to give debtors a fresh start. Vacated in part.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: August 18, 2023, Case #: 22-1248, Categories: Bankruptcy, Debt Collection, Choice Of Law
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court improperly dismissed the parents' claim for failure to state a claim rather than for lack of standing. The parents, angry about a Board policy authorizing schools to create gender care plans for students without notifying parents, do not have children that are transgender, are transitioning, are considering transitioning or are struggling with gender identity issues. Vacated.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: August 14, 2023, Case #: 22-2034, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Government
J. Quattlebaum finds the Board properly determined that the termination of asylum status bars the Albanian from applying for adjustment of status. The Albanian applied for the status of lawful permanent resident after removal proceedings began following his conviction for bank fraud and identity theft. Affirm.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: July 28, 2023, Case #: 23-1322, Categories: Fraud, Immigration
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly awarded the insurance company after a denial of long-term benefits was disputed. The insurance company did not abuse its discretion in denying the writer's claim despite his cardiovascular history including two open heart procedures. His most recent examination from a doctor determined that he did not suffer from any cardiovascular symptoms such as chest pain or pressure. He was walking 3 miles a day to improve his overall health, meaning he could hypothetically perform his sedentary job. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: June 28, 2023, Case #: 22-1519, Categories: Erisa, Insurance
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress evidence police discovered while searching his van without a warrant. The officers acted reasonably to intake the van containing a high-powered rifle, a pistol, ammunition and explosives in plain view to be left overnight and unattended in a bank parking lot eventually leading to the FBI searching the defendant's cell phone and finding child pornography. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: June 23, 2023, Case #: 21-4687, Categories: Evidence, Firearms, Child Pornography
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court improperly granted judgment and affirmed the arbitration award to the union. The arbitrator, tasked with resolving a dispute over the firing of a nursing home staff member for allegedly engaging in harassment and falsifying records, failed to determine whether the employer had a reasonable basis for concluding that the employee committed the conduct that led to her discharge. Reversed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: June 15, 2023, Case #: 22-1268, Categories: Employment, Labor / Unions