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Where the 411-month sentence being served by a 44-year-old armed bank robber was at least 10 years longer than similarly situated defendants sentenced after the First Step Act, and his employment history, volunteerism and educational accomplishments during his 25 years ...

Tagged with: Criminal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where plaintiff was discharged from her bartending jobs at two different Fraternal Order of Eagles clubs, her claims for wrongful termination, a whistleblower violation and tortious interference survive defendants’ demurrers. Plaintiff is granted leave to amend her complaint to plead ...

Tagged with: Employment Va. Circuit Court

Where the owner of two annuities alleged her financial adviser transferred the proceeds into a Ponzi scheme, her negligent supervision claim against a life insurance company failed because the adviser was not its employee. Background On Oct. 21, 2019, plaintiffs ...

Tagged with: Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff taxpayers have standing to challenge a decision by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to expend funds to update and modernize the county’s zoning ordinances. Plaintiffs have alleged that the expenditures were made without proper notice, an in-person quorum ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Va. Circuit Court

Where a Walmart store manager claimed she was paid less than male colleagues, but her alleged comparators worked in different departments, had different duties and dealt with different decisionmakers, she failed to state a prima facie case of gender bias ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a bank customer who slipped and fell while walking down stairs in a building where the bank had leased a suite failed to show the bank was responsible for repairing, cleaning or maintaining the area where he fell or ...

Tagged with: Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the defendant promised to provide FDA-approved masks to the plaintiff and failed to do so, but the plaintiff might have known the masks were nonconforming and nevertheless accepted them, a jury will decide if the plaintiff waived its breach ...

Tagged with: Contract U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a Norfolk fire captain previously, but unsuccessfully, sued the City of Norfolk for impeding his ability to apply for a battalion chief position, because that prior suit did not name the fire chief in his individual capacity, and because ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination U.S. District Court - Eastern District

On reconsideration, the court again denies petitioner’s motion for a protective order because she did not prove that respondent, more than once, placed her “in reasonable fear of death, criminal sexual assault, or bodily injury.” The statutes “The petition was ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Va. Circuit Court

Where the defendant refused to assign leases to five properties as required by the parties’ agreement, but the plaintiffs “repeatedly” told him they would not be taking the leases and replied affirmatively that he was free to dispose of them, ...

Tagged with: Contract U.S. District Court - Eastern District