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		<title>School Bus Driver’s FLSA Retaliation Claim Fails&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Richmond U.S. District Court says a school bus driver who alleges she was fired in retaliation for filing a claim for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act may not amend her complaint because her additional allegations still do not show a causal connection between her protected activity and her later termination for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Quiet Title Suit to Collect Architect Fee&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/01/no-quiet-title-suit-to-collect-architect-fee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An architectural firm hired to provide design services for the proposed National Slavery Museum cannot enforce a judgment lien on property owned by the museum in Fredericksburg; the Richmond U.S. District Court says there is no controversy ripe to support a request for declaratory judgment and plaintiff’s status as a judgment creditor does not support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Fired After Probation Term&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/20/employee-fired-after-probation-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Housing Development Authority wins summary judgment in a former employee’s suit alleging race and/or sex discrimination; the Richmond U.S. District Court says plaintiff was warned about boundaries for workplace relationships and violated conditions of her probation, prompting her termination. Plaintiff, an African-American female, was formerly employed in the Information Technology Services Department at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosed Borrower’s Claim Proceeds&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Richmond U.S. District Court allows foreclosed borrowers’ action to proceed against lender on allegations lender breached deed of trust conditions requiring compliance with a federal regulation requiring a personal face-to-face interview; borrower’s other claims are dismissed. In October 2008, borrowers obtained a residential mortgage loan assigned to lender; a law firm was named trustee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Civil Rights Claim from Detainee’s Suicide Attempt&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/27/no-civil-rights-claim-from-detainees-suicide-attempt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adopting the recommendation of the magistrate judge, a Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses this civil rights suit filed by the guardian of a woman who remains in a nursing home in a persistent vegetative state after surviving a suicide attempt while detained in Richmond City Jail where she was taken after she was discovered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lender May Sue Broker for Borrower Fraud&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/11/lender-may-sue-broker-for-borrower-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff mortgage company may sue defendant mortgage broker for breach of contract with respect to nine home mortgage loans defendant brokered to plaintiff, says the Richmond U.S. District Court. The court denies defendant’s motion to dismiss on the following grounds: 1) plaintiff’s claim is not barred by the statute of limitations; 2) fraud by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Claim Over Gas Pump Confrontation&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/12/19/no-claim-over-gas-pump-confrontation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An African-American plaintiff who alleges defendant white employees of Uppy’s who called him a “liar and a thief” in a dispute over whether he had paid for gasoline has offered only conclusory assertions of race discrimination based on his personal belief, and the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses his federal claims and remands his state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismissal After Notice-and-Cure Failure&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/28/dismissal-after-notice-and-cure-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A homeowner’s contract action against the U.S. is not barred under the doctrine of res judicata by an earlier Consent Order in which plaintiff promised to stay current on his mortgage; the Richmond U.S. District Court denies the motion to dismiss the claim against the U.S., but dismisses the claims against the other two defendants, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fee Motion Too Late After ‘Judgment’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/20/fee-motion-too-late-after-judgment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this patent infringement action involving slow cookers, a Richmond U.S. District Court strikes the winning defendant’s motion for attorney’s fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 as the defendant miscalculated the date to file the motion by calling the “final judgment” the date the court sent to the PTO the Patent Determination Report, not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOT Procedure Not Exhaustion Requirement&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/10/24/dot-procedure-not-exhaustion-requirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commercial truck driver can sue for disability discrimination when he was terminated from his job after suffering a transient ischemic attack, after the driver’s treating physician employer’s physicians said the driver was qualified to return to work but one of employer’s physicians disagreed; a Richmond U.S. District will not dismiss for failure to exhaust [...]]]></description>
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