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In plaintiff shareholder’s suit alleging defendants violated federal securities law by providing false, misleading and incomplete information in a proxy statement, and given the imminent shareholder vote on a proposed merger, the Richmond U.S. District Court will lift the discovery ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff software company’s suit against a competitor who allegedly decrypted former customer passwords to gain access to plaintiff’s confidential trade secrets, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s state law claims for false pretenses and encryption are not preempted ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses this securities fraud class action filed by a firefighters’ pension fund against defendant K12 Inc., a provider of online classroom services, whose stock price declined by nearly 40 percent on Oct. 9, 2013, following ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court will hear a declaratory judgment action filed by plaintiff Kettler International against Starbucks Corporation, which alleges defects in Kettler’s “Carlo” patio chairs Starbucks bought for its Arizona and California stores, which caused injury to a ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this dispute over a company’s contract with a university research fund, the contractor states a counterclaim for fraud with allegations that plaintiff university misrepresented whether its process for converting vegetable oils into biodiesel was ready for commercialization, but the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this litigation in which a shipping company seeks to enforce an arbitration award previously confirmed by a New York federal court, in order to allow the shipping company to seek maritime attachment of the M/V Cape Viewer, the Norfolk ...

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

In a contract for plaintiff VIA design firm to perform architectural services for development of a historical building in downtown Norfolk, defendant U.S. Development Company cannot now deny it was a party to the contract; the Norfolk U.S. District Court ...

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

In plaintiff’s suit seeking to terminate its requirements contract with defendant Ethyl Corporation for a lead-based fuel additive, the Richmond U.S. District Court says the contract’s arbitration clause commits questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, and the court dismisses plaintiff’s ...

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

A divided Supreme Court of Virginia reverses dismissal of a mechanic’s lien enforcement action filed by a subcontractor on a hotel construction project that was bonded off, for the sub’s failure to join the dissolved general contractor as a “necessary ...

Tagged with: Contract Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia

A limited liability company that invested with Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme was discovered in 2008, has received a settlement from the Madoff Securities’ trustee, and the Fairfax Circuit Court says the settlement should be distributed to LLC members in ...

Tagged with: Corporate Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Virginia Circuit Courts