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Plaintiff T&B Electric Company has stated a breach of contract claim against defendant subcontractor for delayed installation of a security system, which plaintiff alleges delayed the entire project and damaged plaintiff; defendant says the purchase order did not specify a ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies reconsideration of its grant of summary judgment to defendant, a former president and CEO of a company sold after bankruptcy, who is attempting to disavow contracts he signed in connection with sale of the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The former director of community health services for a counseling business has failed to state claims under the federal False Claims Act and the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act with allegations that the business systematically used unqualified personnel to perform ...

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

After revival of plaintiff’s False Claims Act suit against defendant armored car manufacturer and its owner, the Danville U.S. District Court denied defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment on multiple claims relating to alleged lack of ballistic protection on and ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to plaintiff Dominion Virginia Power against defendant coal company for its delivery of 43,361 tons of coke breeze in breach of contracts to provide plaintiff Dominion Virginia Power with a specialized coal ...

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

In this dispute between a cloud-based computing services company and a software start-up, the Alexandria U.S. District Court reconsiders its earlier ruling allowing defendant software company to counterclaim for conspiracy, and dismisses all of defendant’s counterclaims; given the proximity of ...

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

The 4th Circuit vacates an injunction to halt a foundation’s use of “NAACP,” the trademark of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to represent an anti-abortion message about the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People”; ...

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

The 4th Circuit upholds an order requiring a “dissatisfied applicant in an ex parte trademark proceeding” to pay attorney’s fees and expenses of $36,320.49, including salary expenses of PTO attorneys and a paralegal, to the director of the Patent and ...

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

A Virginia coal company that engaged an Australian-based logistics company to arrange shipping of multi-million dollar coal shovels from Australia, through the Panama Canal to Norfolk, with below-deck storage for protection from the elements, may sue the logistics company in ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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