Your search Notice: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) States That Citation of Unpublished Dispositions is Disfavored Except for Establishing Res Judicata, Estoppel, or the Law of the Case and Requires Service of Copies of Cited Unpublished Dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.samuel L. Smith, Plaintiff-appellant, v. New York Times Company, a New York Corporation; Thespartanburg Herald-journal, a South Carolinacorporation, Defendants-appellees,andmike Towery; Earl Barber, Defendants did not match any document.