In this negligence action filed by a woman who was injured when she stepped into an elevator on the 12th floor of the tower at One Commerce Place in Norfolk and the elevator suddenly and violently dropped a number of ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court remands to state court multiple suits against defendant physicians, a corporation and a pain-management clinic alleging defendants acted negligently, fraudulently and in violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by obtaining a contaminated injectable steroid ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court remands to state court an estate’s suit against defendant physicians, a corporation and a pain-management clinic alleging defendants acted negligently, fraudulently and in violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by obtaining a contaminated injectable ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

Lawyers are concerned that discovery is getting out of hand. The masses of data that are part of everyday operations in modern organizations are generating ever-more complicated discovery demands, even in simple cases. Responding to concern from litigators nationwide, the ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Discovery Federal Courts

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court remands to state court plaintiff administrator’s wrongful death suit against a health and rehabilitation center. Because plaintiff is a citizen of Virginia, it is now clear that there is no longer complete diversity ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says the probate exception to federal court jurisdiction does not apply to a suit that seeks to invalidate an inter vivos trust, and it denies plaintiff’s motion to remand this suit back to a Virginia ...

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

In this suit to enforce the parties’ settlement of alleged breaches of an agreement between a Virginia business and a German corporation, the Alexandria U.S. District Court, on remand from the 4th Circuit, awards defendant, as prevailing party, $893,771.64 in ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In the wake of defendant AOL’s $5 million offer to settle class claims by AOL members who allege defendant violated electronic privacy laws by releasing for download 20 million search queries conducted by people using over 600,000 AOL screen names, ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The family of a former naval commander who worked as a private security contractor and who was killed in a 2008 terrorist bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, is entitled to heightened deference to their decision to sue ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Procedure Judge Roger L. Gregory

Defendant foreign banks cannot be sued in a Virginia federal district court for an alleged global cyber-crime conspiracy to collect funds from the sale of illegal counterfeit prescription drugs over the Internet to American consumers; the 4th Circuit affirms dismissal ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Procedure Judge Paul V. Niemeyer