Four franchisees alleging a national tax preparation company violated the Sherman Act by including certain no-hiring and no-solicitation clauses in standard franchise agreements will have to pursue their cases in a New Jersey federal court after a court held venue ...

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

A Massachusetts plaintiff who alleges a credit card company improperly charged her, and others, for purchases will have to litigate her claims in Virginia because various factors, including the location of witnesses and a choice of law provision, favor Virginia ...

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

A defendant failed in her attempt to set aside a default judgment – arising from the illegal download of a movie – because she did not show diligence in her conduct and provided no explanation for her delayed response. Background ...

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

A copyright dispute over competing weight-loss books will be heard in Virginia, instead of Tennessee, because the suit was properly filed in Virginia by the Virginia-based plaintiff, and because the interests of justice did not substantially favor moving the case ...

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

A Virginia-based company cannot sue its New York-based advertising agency in Virginia because the agency did not have sufficient contacts with Virginia to be subject to personal jurisdiction here. Background New Venture Holdings LLC is a Virginia corporation and operates ...

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

Where a pipeline company was unable to obtain necessary easements through an agreement with the affected landowners, and the affected landowners failed to respond to the company’s complaint in condemnation, the company was entitled to take possession of the easements ...

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

The Commonwealth of Virginia was entitled to intervene in an action to approve a proposed consent decree to which it was a party and other parties with obligations under the proposed settlement agreement were joined in the action because they ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an action in Texas against two Virginia companies resulted in an award of damages against only one of the defendants and a receiver for one of the plaintiffs demanded payment from the other defendant based on a litigation cost ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where plaintiffs challenging Mississippi’s death penalty practices subpoenaed the Virginia Department of Corrections in the hopes of gathering information that would help them prove deficiencies in Mississippi’s practices, the subpoena was quashed because the department had already produced relevant information ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Practice Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where bifurcation of defendant’s misappropriation of trade secrets claims did not prejudice the defendant’s ability to defend against plaintiff’s antitrust and breach of contract claims and the verdict in the antitrust and breach of contract trial was amply supported, a ...

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