Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

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Lawsuit involves a disabled man sedated against his will after he complained his cell wasn’t compliant with federal law. The system that allows people incarcerated in North Carolina’s prisons to register complaints about how they are treated is a confusing and confounding process that can be so opaque it raises the question of whether the incarcerated can even access it, according to a ruling issued last week by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

In an extraordinary concurring opinion, a Reagan-appointed judge offers searing indictment of industrialized hog farming Shortly after Smithfield Foods lost its third consecutive hog nuisance case in federal court, company CEO Ken Sullivan wrote a letter.

Fourth Circuit ruling should offer protection in North Carolina WASHINGTON — Transgender teen Andrew Adams used the boys bathroom, which aligned with his gender identity, when he enrolled as a freshman in 2015 at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Fla. Then two girls lodged a complaint and school authorities ordered Adams to use a gender-neutral or girls restroom instead. In 2017, he filed suit against the St. Johns County School Board.