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Although a bookkeeper for an account­ing firm had prepared and signed a letter of resignation, addressed to her employer, she had not turned in the letter but left it on top of her desk, and the employer was not entitled ...

Tagged with: Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jan L. Brodie Virginia Circuit Courts

The Court of Appeals affirms a commis­sion decision that claimant did not suffer a compensable injury by accident; appel­lant’s multiple procedural defaults pre­clude the appeals court from considering his claims on appeal. The court informed appellant by let­ter that his ...

Tagged with: Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

A school board wins summary judg­ment in Roanoke U.S. District Court in an assistant principal’s Title VII suit claiming he was retaliated against after complaining about an inappropriate rela­tionship between his wife, a librarian at the same school, and another ...

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

A plaintiff’s allegation that defendant coworker at the Radford Army Ammu­nition Plant sexually assaulted her on employer’s premises cannot support her respondeat superior claim against em­ployer; there is no allegation that the defendant employee was performing em­ployment duties at the ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court up­holds an arbitration award concluding that plaintiff employer, a security con­tractor for government installations, had violated a collective bargaining agreement by terminating without “just cause” a K-9 civilian employee who al­legedly had failed to disclose ...

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

A plaintiff fired from his job as senior vice president because he “overshared” information about the company’s finan­cial situation to defer hiring of a new college graduate the company CEO wanted to hire to help target millennial customers, cannot try ...

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

Plaintiff, a former senior director of business development for Triple Cano­py Inc., a subsidiary of Constellis Group Inc., is barred from suing defendant trust retirement company for engaging in ER­ISA-prohibited transactions by a Release plaintiff signed in order to secure ...

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

In this suit by a former assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) for law enforcement services at the Lynchburg office of the Department of Motor Ve­hicles, a Lynchburg U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recom­mendation to grant plaintiff’s motion ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Norman K. Moon Judge Robert S. Ballou U.S. District Court - Western District

A firefighter proved that he injured his cervical spine when he was assist­ing in removal of a 400-pound man who had fallen in the shower and broken his leg; the Court of Appeals reverses a decision of the Workers’ Compensation ...

Tagged with: Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

A 50-year-old female who alleges she was the first and only African-Ameri­can supervisor in the Franklin County Department of Social Services prior to her suspension and demotion has ex­hausted her age and race bias claims by naming the department in ...

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