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Relators who alleged in their first-amended complaint that defendant security training company defrauded the government by falsifying weapons qualification scores for their security contractors are not barred from pursuing their False Claims Act suit by the subsequent discussion of the ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to reconsider its earlier decision that a new U.S. Supreme Court decision will not save relator’s qui tam action dismissed as barred by the first-to-file rule, as the law of the case and 4th ...

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

A medical coder has failed to state a claim under the False Claims Act against an oncology practice group with allegations that defendants, including defendant breast surgeon, filed false claims for payment by the government for unnecessary breast exams, by ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant Bransen Energy Inc. breached a series of contracts governing the quality of coal it was to send to plaintiff Dominion for use in its “new environmentally friend and technologically sophisticated power plant,” the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center; the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Charlottesville U.S. District Court overrules a university patent foundation’s objections to the magistrate judge’s amendment of a protective order governing the scope allowed for plaintiff’s expert to review defendant’s confidential materials. The underlying technology in the case involves magnetic ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

In plaintiff MVB Bank’s suit alleging defendant Stifel Bank & Trust breached a loan sale agreement by misrepresenting that two particular loans were cross-collateralized, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says plaintiff may enforce the contract’s loan buy-back remedy as neither ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A law firm cannot enforce a forfeiture provision in its operating agreement that requires a departing partner to forfeit 50 percent of his equity interest if he takes clients with him; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the forfeiture provision ...

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

An oil and gas lease that gave the lessee certain rights to engage in alternative activities, including exploration or production of gas or oil; or storage of gas or protection of gas storage, on a 180-acre tract in West Virginia, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Judge Allyson K. Duncan

It’s My Party Inc., a regional concert promoter that owns venues such as the Merriweather Post Pavilion, loses its antitrust suit against national concert promoter Live Nation Inc., owner of the Nissan Pavilion and a competitor in the relevant local ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Corporate Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

In plaintiff Verisign Inc.’s Lanham Act suit alleging defendant XYZ and its founder and CEO, Daniel Negari, made false statements during an NPR radio interview and in a YouTube video about defendant’s relative success as a domain name registrar and ...

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