The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a Concord man’s conviction on federal hate crime charges. Marian Hudak was sentenced in 2024 to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
A federal Appeals Court has ruled that an expelled University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student cannot seek monetary damages in his lawsuit against the school. The anonymous student can seek to be reinstated and have his record cleared.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out the class certification for a lawsuit involving Bojangles shift managers in North Carolina and South Carolina. The workers make claims of unpaid off-the-clock work and unauthorized edits of their time records.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals chided a federal judge in North Carolina Tuesday for ignoring an earlier decision in a case pitting a parent against the Iredell-Statesville Board of Education.
After 40 years on the 4th US Circuit of Appeals, Judge Harvie Wilkinson warns about the "constant pull to the courtroom" in election disputes.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a North Carolina law requiring candidates in federal elections to disclose whether they have been convicted of felonies. The court rejected a challenge from a Republican congressional candidate who lost in the March primary.
The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal Appeals Court to throw out a case that pitted government regulators against Novant Health over acquisition of two Iredell County hospitals. Novant dropped its $320 million plan to buy the hospitals after appellate judges blocked the deal in June.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a 43-year prison sentence for Hysen Sherifi. He was convicted in North Carolina in 2011 on charges linked to a terrorism conspiracy. A trial judge had cut two years off Sherifi’s original 45-year sentence after a 2019 US Supreme Court decision. The high court had ruled that a law used to convict Sherifi was unconstitutional under certain circumstances.
The full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will not consider an injunction that would block at least some state Senate districts for this fall’s election. A three-judge 4th Circuit panel issued a ruling this spring rejecting an injunction. The court issued a new order Tuesday rejecting plaintiffs’ request for an en banc hearing by all members of the 4th Circuit.
A split federal Appeals Court panel has blocked Novant Health’s $320 million purchase of two Iredell County hospitals. The Federal Trade Commission had asked the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an injunction as the federal agency appeals a lower court order.
A federal Appeals Court has rejected a lawsuit from two major North Carolina media outlets and a law firm seeking access to traffic accident reports from the state Highway Patrol, Department of Public Safety, Raleigh, and two other cities. The decision announced Monday affirms a trial court ruling from US District Judge Loretta Biggs. She determined that she had no subject matter jurisdiction to consider the case.
