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A unique Fairfax County Department of Family Services’ employee has some quirks. She loves broccoli and green beans. She won’t get into a car unless she’s picked up. And she wants nothing more than cuddles and belly rubs. Rylynn, a ...

Even though a cybersecurity company stopped selling goods online using an unregistered mark years before a competitor registered a similar mark, its continued use of the mark online subjected it to liability for trademark infringement. Judge Claude M. Hilton of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A demand for treble damages under the Virginia Overtime Wage Act was rejected after a federal judge found that recent amendments applied retroactively. Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia limited the claimant’s relief to damages available ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Raymond A. Jackson Overtime Wage Act U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the Unsung Legal Heroes for 2022. This program recognizes the Old Dominion’s most talented and dedicated legal support professionals. The honorees consistently go above and beyond the call of duty. This year’s class ...

An employer’s attempt to establish a black-letter requirement that workers’ compensation claimants must provide notice of their need for transportation to a medical appointment as a condition of recovery has backfired. The employer argued that the Workers Compensation Commission erred ...

Tagged with: Workers' Compensation

The Court of Appeals of Virginia vacated an order by a circuit court in Western Virginia terminating a father’s parental rights under Va. Code § 16.1-283(C)(2). The appeals court disagreed with the ruling from the Botetourt County Circuit Court, which ...

A plaintiff who said a required physical fitness test was a discriminatory condition of her government employment and that she was injured by a loss of income when she resigned after failing it can pursue claims under the Age Discrimination ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

A business owner’s claims that her son conspired with former employees to coordinate a mass resignation and open a competing body-piercing business have survived dismissal. The defendants argued that they were at-will employees protected by the “intra-corporate conspiracy doctrine.” But ...

Former clients of five Virginia attorneys received $27,230 in reimbursement from the Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund. Payments in the most recent round of CPF reimbursements were authorized by the Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Board on Sept. ...

Tagged with: Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Gary Hoffman Jonathan Preston Fisher

A former student athlete’s Title IX retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims against the College of William & Mary can go forward, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff alleged that her basketball coach surveilled her ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson