July 21, 2025
No appeals court found the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term less endearing than the Fourth Circuit, where a supersize shutout accentuated a multiyear slump for the once-favored circuit and repeatedly vindicated conservative dissenters on the left-leaning bench.
September 19, 2023
The full Fourth Circuit on Tuesday declined to revisit a split panel's recent decision backing a Virginia federal court order finding that an Atlanta hotel and real estate developer owes an engineering firm $48 million for using the same name, rejecting the developer's petition for a rehearing en banc.
August 09, 2023
The Fourth Circuit decided Wednesday that a federal judge had it right when he ordered an Atlanta hotel and real estate developer to pay an engineering firm $48 million for using the same name — over the protests of a dissenting judge who argued that "it should be for the jury, not a judge, to decide whether the trademark is likely to create confusion."