Although related False Claims Act suits against defendant Halliburton and other defense contractors were dismissed by two other federal courts and this particular relator’s FCA complaint had been amended, the “first-to-file” rule for bringing FCA action nevertheless required dismissal of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Judge Henry F. Floyd

In this dispute over payments under a construction contract, defendant waited too long to object to admission of a Payment Application listed as one of plaintiff’s trial exhibits and admitted into evidence, and the Norfolk Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court

In this dispute over a drilling company’s demand for $14 million for drilling rig standby charges under a contract and addendum that plaintiff claims revived a 2008 contract, retried to a jury verdict for plaintiff and counterclaim defendants on remand ...

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

In this diversity case involving a contract dispute about delays to the design phase of a product relating to pulsar technology, the Lynchburg U.S. District Court grants defendant’s motion to compel arbitration; although the parties’ contract requires the parties to ...

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

In this litigation that arose after VDOT required a contractor to remove and replace a deck on a bridge construction project in Rockbridge County, the Lynchburg U.S. District Court says the ambiguous terms in plaintiff contractor’s subcontract with the company ...

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

In this Miller Act suit arising from a subcontract between PAT USA Inc. and VT Milcom Inc. for VT Milcom to provide labor and materials for installation of telecommunications systems in Qatar for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, ...

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

A government contractor that received payments from federal agencies cannot be sued under the False Claims Act for allegedly making false statements on a form identifying the contractor as a participant in the Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) Business Development ...

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

In this litigation over dissolution of a partnership and distribution of its assets, counsels’ assistance to a Special Master in the sale of certain properties at a handsome price prompts the Alexandria U.S. District Magistrate Judge to recommend a fee ...

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

In this litigation over dissolution of a partnership and distribution of its assets, the Alexandria U.S. District Court adopts the magistrate judge’s recommendation to award two law firms, respectively, $67,690.50 and $176,614.49, to be paid from the undistributed share of ...

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

An arbitration clause in a Strategic Alliance Agreement between plaintiff and defendants as a framework for ongoing construction of reinforced concrete domes is not superseded by a later Master Subcontractor Agreement between two out of the three parties; the Charlottesville ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District