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Where an employee of the York County Sheriff’s Office was terminated after he disclosed confidential information about an ongoing investigation into an inmate’s death to his wife, who worked at a local news station and then lied to internal investigators ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge G. Steven Agee

Where the trial judge overseeing the defendant’s trial for first-degree murder and armed robbery was aware of a juror’s hearing impairment, and took steps to address it, including repeatedly questioning the juror and confirming with counsel that they could proceed, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

Where Liberty Tax, the tax preparation franchisor, failed to show that the confidential information its former in-house counsel obtained during his six-year tenure was substantially related to the issues in the case, its motion to disqualify him was denied. Background ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the company moved to disqualify counsel representing an employee in her civil rights case because it was representing a co-defendant in a separate case involving the company’s successor corporation, the motion was denied because there was no actual or ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a company argued a prior release with the employee barred his Title VII claims, it was denied judgment on the pleadings because the employee argued that he never obtained the $100 consideration required by the agreement, the consideration was ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the disabled resident alleged that she was denied a handicap parking space, and that the property manager failed to clean pet waste that exacerbated her respiratory issues, she plausibly alleged a claim under the Fair Housing Act. The same ...

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

Although the plaintiff suing for unlawful termination produced two documents eight days after discovery closed and two days before the dispositive motions’ deadline, the defendants’ motion to exclude the documents was denied because they were on notice as to their ...

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

Where the doctor argued he was simply following prison guidelines when he treated a detainee suffering from Hepatitis C, but the record showed he failed to order additional testing when the patient’s bloodwork exceeded the thresholds in the same guidelines, ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the record suggested that some detainees with Hepatitis C were excluded from treatment until they got sicker, the jury will decide if the medical director and chief physician for the Virginia Department of Corrections, or VDOC, violated the Eighth ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a man directed by his probation officer to perform community service at a landfill was stuck and injured by a vehicle, he plausibly alleged the landfill’s owner breached a duty to provide training, warnings, supervision or signage, and that ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District