Several genuine disputes prevented summary judgment in a door manufacturer’s antitrust suit against the company that provided its manufacturing equipment. Background Plaintiff Steves and Sons Inc. and Defendant Jeld-Wen are both participants in the U.S. interior molded doorskin market. Doorskins ...

Tagged with: Business Business Law Contract Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Virginia buyer could not bring suit in the Commonwealth against a Los Angeles-based Porsche franchise because, although the transaction was within the scope of Virginia’s long-arm statute, the dealer did not purposefully avail itself of the privilege of conducting ...

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

The court held that the Defendant, the City of Buena Vista, Virginia, had no legally enforceable obligation to make payments pursuant to agreements with Plaintiff UMB Bank. This case is about soured financing for a municipal golf course in the ...

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

By asserting that a contractor’s employee’s own fault contributed to her slip-and-fall, Appellant Dominion Nuclear Connecticut triggered its indemnity agreement with the contractor, Appellee Securitas Security Services USA, the high court held. Jennifer Brandenburg, a Securitas employee, allegedly slipped and ...

Tagged with: Contract Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia Tort Unpublished Opinion

Analogizing to federal arbitration jurisprudence, the court held that a jury waiver was enforceable even in an agreement alleged to be fraudulently induced, since the challenging party did not allege that the waiver provision itself was procured by fraud. On ...

Tagged with: Contract Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Virginia Circuit Courts

The court granted an injunction to corporate entities seeking to force the removal of their manager, who had agreed to resign by a certain date identified in the companies’ operating agreements. Corporate entities 139 Riverview Manager LLC and 139 Riverview ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Michelle J. Atkins Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

An exotic dance club could not enforce arbitration agreements it obtained from its entertainers when it used those agreements as an “insurance policy” for merits-based litigation, the court of appeals said. Plaintiff/Appellee Alexis Degidio performed as a dancer at Defendant/Appellant ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

The court reversed an award of attorneys’ fees, finding that the fraud claim on which they were based arose solely from obligations under the parties’ agreement, the court held. JB&A was a government contractor that provided services to U.S. intelligence ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Contract Supreme Court of Virginia

This litigation arose over the rental of a single-family home in McLean, Virginia. In January 2016, the Evans family decided to relocate to McLean from Texas for Mrs. Evans’ employment. Because they had not yet sold their home in Texas, ...

Tagged with: Contract Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Virginia Circuit Courts

In 2007, Johnson purchased 100 shares of MBA Consulting Services Inc. for a price of $100,000. Coleman represented that, because 600 shares of MBA existed, Johnson’s purchase would make him an approximate one-sixth owner of MBA. Yet for the tax ...

Tagged with: Contract Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard Virginia Circuit Courts