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A construction company hired to build a fire station in Charlottesville that alleges numerous problems with the contract documents and the city, which significantly increased the duration of the project and the costs associated with its completion has stated claims ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court refuses to enforce an agreement transcribed from the parties’ settlement conference with the magistrate judge in this dispute between defendant government contractor and its subcontractor over work performed at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses as time-barred a breach-of-contract suit filed by a plaintiff who sold a 2.14-acre parcel to defendants under an Aug. 28, 2000, contract. Plaintiff is a Virginia resident. Defendant DRHI Inc. is a Delaware Corporation ...

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

The 4th Circuit revives a shareholder’s suit alleging a pharmaceutical company violated federal securities laws by making materially misleading statements and omissions about the development and likely approval of a new drug, Northera; defendants’ failure to disclose critical information about ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Corporate Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

Plaintiffs, sureties that issued numerous construction payment and performance bonds and are suing debtor Truland Entities to enforce collateral security and indemnification provisions in their Indemnity Agreements, win dismissal of defendants’ counterclaims, which are essentially restatements of defendants’ affirmative defenses, ...

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

In plaintiff’s contract action against an individual and two corporate defendants, none of whom filed a grounds of defense, but in which the individual defendant appeared on the initial return date, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the individual defendant’s request ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Junius P. Fulton III Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiffs, sureties that issued numerous construction payment and performance bonds and  are suing debtor Truland Entities to enforce collateral security and indemnification provisions in their Indemnity Agreements, may allege both tort and contract claims, based on alleged misrepresentations in financial ...

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

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses this declaratory judgment action filed by three FM radio stations asking the court to declare that broadcasts, made via a geofencing technology yet to be implemented, are exempt from liability for copyright royalties under ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment for defendant U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in this suit by a patent holder alleging the PTO’s inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board are unconstitutional because they ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A bank that sold loans to SunTrust Mortgage, who in turn sold loans to Fannie Mae, must indemnify SunTrust after Fannie Mae demanded that SunTrust repurchase a loan discovered to have inadequate documentation; a Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary ...

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