A long running court battle over claims of race discrimination and breach of contract in a Danville public construction project is headed for a third trial in the wake of a hung jury last month. The case of Carnell Construction ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Million-Dollar Verdicts

An Alexandria U.S. District Court awards defendant lender $20,000 in attorney’s fees that plaintiff borrower will have to pay should he bring a new lawsuit against defendant, after determining defendant was entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees for defendant’s costs for ...

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

A Montgomery County Circuit Court dismisses, on res judicata grounds, Virginia Tech’s university president as a defendant in this negligence suit filed by the estates of two students who were fatally shot on April 16, 2007, but says plaintiffs’ claims ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge William N. Alexander II Montgomery County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s request for a TRO to keep defendants from using any confidential information misappropriated from plaintiff company, based on testimony from a computer consultant about a defendant’s removal of technical information from a company ...

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

After imposing attorneys’ fees for noncompliance with discovery in an action for misappropriation of trade secrets, the Alexandria U.S. District Court magistrate judge reduces plaintiff’s requested attorneys’ fees by 65 percent from $32, 257 to $11, 404; spending 83.10 hours ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Ivan D. Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a federal employee’s suit challenging the revocation of his security clearance on various constitutional grounds; review is barred by Dep’t of Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), ...

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

As a sanction under Rules 37 and 41 for continued noncompliance with its discovery orders, the Richmond U.S. District Court magistrate judge recommends dismissal of a pro se employment discrimination suit and directs employer’s counsel to file a motion under ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In an action for misappropriation of trade secrets, the Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant foreign corporation’s motion for a protective order to prevent deposing three employees in Richmond, Virginia: Defendant’s counterclaim qualifies as a claim under Local Rule 30(a) ...

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

In this dispute over the scope of Freedom of Information Act protection for Army documents related to the Army’s decision to terminate plaintiff as property manager for Army housing, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants in part the Army’s motion ...

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

The House Courts committee has killed a bill designed to keep evidence in district court civil cases from the eyes of circuit judges hearing the cases on appeal. House Bill 284 took aim at circuit judges inclined to prejudge a ...

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