The district court did not err in holding a childcare center in contempt for violating the terms of an injunction related to use of the word “rainbow.” The center was liable for liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees, plus the cost ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Attorneys Attorneys Fees Civil Practice Civil Procedure Contract Corporate Intellectual Property Judge G. Steven Agee

General-liability insurers could enforce their policy limits as to completed-operations and products hazard claims against the insured, stemming from decades-old asbestos exposure. Background This insurance-coverage dispute involves the applicability of two insurers’ policies to past, pending, and future asbestos-related bodily ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Corporate Evidence Insurance Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Personal Injury Regulated Industries

In advance of an upcoming jury trial, a plaintiff could not prevail on claims related to one of its asserted patents, and the court refused to present its proffered theory of damages to the jury. Background In this patent-infringement case, ...

Tagged with: Corporate Intellectual Property Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Telecommunications U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Dominion Virginia Power’s lawsuit to enforce a large judgment against a company that sold it “black mud” instead of coal will proceed against the company’s owner and president, with punitive damages potentially available. Background In 2014, Plaintiff Dominion Virginia Power ...

Tagged with: Business Law Corporate Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Financial documents submitted to a valuation company and later sought by subpoena were not privileged under either attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine. In any event, the defendant’s motion to quash the subpoena was untimely filed. Background This action revolves ...

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

Pursuant to Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act, Petitioner Transparent GMU requested from Respondents George Mason University and the George Mason University Foundation Inc. records relating to donations made or offered, directly and indirectly, to the University by certain private entities ...

Tagged with: Corporate Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A financial services company, WS Wealth, was a successor to Bluemont, a financial services company that filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of an arbitration award in favor of plaintiff Charles Schwab & Company, under the “de facto merger” ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who owned stock in each of two corporations at the time they merged has standing to bring this derivative sharehold­er action alleging defendants breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders of Apple REIT Ten Inc. in the merger of ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A bank that has a judgment against a heavy equipment company and its prin­cipal shareholder cannot using a “veil piercing” theory to enforce that judgment against a separate Virginia limited lia­bility company owned by the sharehold­er’s fiancée, “with whom he ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court

A preferred stockholder does not re­tain the right to inspect Freddie Mac’s corporate records where a conservator succeeded to “all rights, titles, powers and privileges” of any stockholder with respect to Freddie Mac and its assets; the Alexandria U.S. District ...

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