A Virginia trial court may not enforce a subpoena served on the Virginia registered agent of  Yelp, a consumer review website based in California, asking Yelp to identify “John Doe” posters who allegedly assumed false identities as customers and defamed ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Supreme Court of Virginia

In this litigation arising from a collision of a vehicle and a tractor-trailer with defendant’s tractor-trailer which he allegedly had crashed on I-81, the Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses count I, a survival personal injury claim, with plaintiffs’ consent, and ...

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

A plaintiff’s suit alleging his former employer, a government contractor, defamed him by stating during a contract bid that plaintiff was not an employee of a competing contractor, is barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel; the Alexandria U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendants, including a corporation which is attempting to appear pro se, have failed to show any good cause or excusable neglect why the Alexandria U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge should change its previous recommendation that default judgment be granted against ...

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

In plaintiffs’ ERISA suit against an employer who allegedly promised plaintiffs pension credits if they returned to work for the employer after an eight-year stint with the CIA, the Alexandria U.S. District Court denies plaintiffs’ motion to compel production of ...

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

In this dispute between two Episcopal clergymen who each claim to be the proper leader of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, the 4th Circuit vacates the district court order abstaining from considering plaintiff’s Lanham Act ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Procedure Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

In this action filed by the Virginia Department of Human Services, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the lawyer for respondent and her court-appointed guardian ad litem should decide which of them will be permitted to cross-examine the department’s witnesses and ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A trucking company that has less than 11 percent of its work force in the city of Roanoke, where it has only one client and in 2014 generated only 2 percent of its total revenue, does not conduct “substantial” business ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge David B. Carson Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion to quash defendant’s notice of removal based on a description of defendant bank extracted from lending documents between the parties. Plaintiff relies on an incorrect description of defendant SunTrust Bank as a ...

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

In this dispute arising from an alleged partnership to operate an international exchange program with China, an Alexandria U.S. District Court will not consider the parties’ lengthy and self-serving affidavits on defendant’s motion to dismiss; plaintiff’s allegations are sufficient to ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Western District