From today's Fourth Circuit opinion in Doe v. Sidar, written by Judge Toby Heytens and joined by Judges Robert Bruce King and J. Harvie Wilkinson: A woman…
The decision allows such pseudonymity when the defendant has already been found (by default judgment) to have committed the assault, but Judge Wilkinson's concurrence argues that, absent this unusual factor, one-sided pseudonymity should be frowned on.
A business owner from North Carolina can move forward with his lawsuit seeking a 10-year-old federal tax refund. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected government objections Friday and ruled that the case of Stephen Pond v. United States can proceed. At the same time, the court ruled that Pond cannot rely on a “common-law mailbox rule” to boost his case.