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6 results for “United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia”
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A563 | Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs | Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 23A390 | Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation | Whether a plaintiff who obtains a preliminary injunction that becomes moot can be considered a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees under 42… |
| 21-5428 | Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification | Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) requires the government to inform a victim of her rights under the CVRA and the status of the investigati… |
| 18-977 | John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) | Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal … |