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In this litigation arising from a group of employees leaving plaintiff Alliance Technology Group LLC to join a competitor, Achieve 1 LLC, a Richmond U.S. District Court says Alliance has stated claims against one former employee for breach of fiduciary ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to transfer his cocaine conspiracy case to Baltimore federal court; although defendant’s lawyer is in Baltimore and the $2.4 million cocaine buy was to occur in Baltimore, the codefendants have Richmond lawyers ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Clean Water Act does not authorize the EPA to regulate the level a pollutant in Accotink Creek, a 25-mile long tributary of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, by establishing a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for the flow ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An employee of the U.S. Postal Service can’t recover for Title VII religious discrimination based on postal officials’ removal from post office bulletin board advertisements about the employee’s religious and genetic research and theories and a book he published to ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A public utility company says a property owner’s fence, pool and shed interfere with the utility’s easement, but the property owner has stated a counterclaim for inverse condemnation in the utility company’s declaratory judgment action, the Norfolk U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Judge Rebecca Beach Smith Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The curtain has come down on the contretemps over a coffee cup that played out in a Charlottesville office. The workplace drama opened in August 2007 at the National Ground Intelligence Center. An employee who volunteered on the office kitchen-cleaning ...

Tagged with: Employment

Plaintiffs who lost their homes to foreclosure have not stated claims for a trustee’s breach of an alleged duty of impartiality, but the Richmond U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge will allow plaintiffs to amend their claims for breach of fiduciary ...

Tagged with: Judge M. Hannah Lauck Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A measure to reform Virginia’s actual innocence procedure has been sent back to a General Assembly workshop, possibly for additional tinkering. Faced with a floor amendment, the House of Delegates voted to re-refer the measure to the House Courts committee ...

Tagged with: Criminal

As anticipated, the tort reform package was reported out of the House Courts of Justice full committee on Jan. 28, without further substantive discussion. Del. Dave Albo, R-Springfield, exercised the prerogative of the chair to reflect on the process that ...

(AP) — Attorneys for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of beating his ex-girlfriend to death are asking the state appeals court for a new trial, arguing the evidence in the case didn’t support a second-degree murder conviction ...