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In plaintiff’s suit alleging defendants caused his resignation as CEO of Otto Industries NA Inc. in retaliation for a discrimination lawsuit plaintiff’s wife had filed against defendants, an Alexandria U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion to exclude an expert report ...

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

In this Lanham Act suit involving competing companies’ challenges to various advertising claims relating to both parties’ grass seed and combination grass seed products, a Richmond U.S. District Court reaffirms that defendant Pennington Seed’s “twice the seed” and “2X the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit seeking a multi-million dollar finder’s fee allegedly owed to him following the $600 million acquisition of Trinity Coal Corporation by defendant, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to require plaintiff to select either ...

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

A Norfolk Circuit Court says Va. Code § 13.1-1041.1 allows it to enter a charging order against a member of an accounting professional limited liability company on behalf of a creditor who is not a member of the PLLC. Under ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A West Virginia trial court did not err in holding that plaintiff developer could not sue defendant construction company for negligence in construction of a fill slope because the alleged negligence arose solely in the context of the parties’ contractual ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Virginia Court of Appeals

In this “straightforward” dispute involving the registered trademark “Two Men and a Truck,” a Norfolk U.S. District Court awards plaintiff attorney’s fees and costs of $24,804.92; the court cuts fees for block billing and questions lawyers’ hourly rates based on ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit seeking a multi-million dollar finder’s fee allegedly owed to him following the $600 million acquisition of Trinity Coal Corporation by defendants, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies defendants’ motion to exclude plaintiff’s expert coal industry ...

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

The 4th Circuit vacates summary judgment for a plaintiff pursuing an accounting of four mining partnerships and remands this matter, in light of the response of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to a question of state law ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert B. King Partnerships Virginia Court of Appeals

In this dispute between a cloud-based computing services company and a software start-up, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says defendant software company may counterclaim against plaintiff for conspiracy, but dismisses its counterclaims for aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary ...

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

Relators, a former emergency room administrator and a former billing supervisor for defendant health care providers, allege varying degrees of detail in their allegations regarding billing government payors for services not rendered and drugs not administered, and for “upcoding services,” ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District