United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- U.S. judicial system [r]: The system of United States legal courts, authorized as a separate and co-equal branch of government in Article III of the U.S. Constitution, and specialized first-level administrative law bodies in the Executive Branch [e]
Subtopics
States in the circuit
- Delaware [r]: A State of the Eastern USA. [e]
- Maryland [r]: A State on the Eastern coast of the USA. [e]
- North Carolina [r]: A state in the southeastern region of the United States [e]
- South Carolina [r]: A State in the South-eastern USA. [e]
- Virginia [r]: A state in the southeastern United States. [e]
- West Virginia [r]: 35th state of the USA [e]
Cases
- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law [e]
- El-Masri v. Tenet [r]: A case involving extrajudicial detention, in which the U.S. government stopped a lawsuit by a person captured due to an error in identification, by invoking the state secrets privilege; the dismissal was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has been as a strong precedent for a wide interpretation of the privilege [e]
- Richmond, Virginia [r]: Capital of the U.S. State of Virginia; was the capital of the Confederate States of America [e]