State court class actions on behalf of owners of stock in an electric and gas utility, which alleged that the company’s CEO and board members breached their fiduciary duties by agreeing to a merger with an energy-based utility company and ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Practice Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

Employees who were laid off when the manufacturing facility they worked at was closed and claimed that their employer failed to provide adequate notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act could bring a class action suit against their ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Defendants sued by Dinwiddie County for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic will have to litigate in the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie County after the federal court held it lacked jurisdiction over the removed case. Background Dinwiddie County filed ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the addition of a new defendant destroyed the court’s diversity jurisdiction and the plaintiff had already obtained a preliminary injunction against another defendant, the non-diverse defendant was severed from the case because, despite having an agency relationship with a ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

A defamation verdict for plaintiff is reversed because the complained-of statement expressed an opinion. The claim should not have been submitted to the jury. Overview Defendant Sroufe, the division superintendent for Patrick County Public Schools, removed plaintiff Waldron from her ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Published Order Supreme Court of Virginia

Where a statute gave a court discretion to award attorney’s fees and costs on behalf of any party, the court was not barred from awarding such fees to a party who was represented by legal services and, as such, did ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a student’s claims against her university were based on allegations that students and professors at the university falsely maligned her as being mentally disturbed, the potential harm to the student’s professional reputation did not outweigh the public’s interest in ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a defendant was entitled to an award of attorney’s fees because the court had granted the defendant’s motion to compel, the requested fees were reduced because the amount of time defendant’s counsel spent on the motion was excessive given ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Pamela Meade Sargent U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiffs were entitled to a default judgment on their claims that defendant breached a collective bargaining agreement by failing to make required contributions to employee benefit plans and failing to submit necessary documents to conduct a payroll review because the ...

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

Where a plaintiff was entitled to an award of attorney’s fees and reasonable expenses because the court had granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel, fees charged by plaintiff’s counsel in relation to work unrelated to the motion to compel could ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District