Where employees suing their former employers for wrongful termination related to alleged criminal activity failed to plead facts sufficient to fit within Virginia’s narrow exception to at-will employment, they may try again based upon their representations they had additional facts ...

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

Where a company did not show it was damaged by an employee who breached his employment contract by retaining company documents after his termination and was ordered to return them, the company recovered no monetary damages. Background Defendant Christopher Steinke ...

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

Where a former employee of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles sought over $1.8 million in fees and costs, the magistrate judge reduced the amount to approximately $938,000. The parties then reached a settlement on the amount of fees, costs ...

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

Where a servicemember’s claim was brought under Virginia’s codification of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, or SCRA, resolution of that claim did not involve federal law as to provide federal question jurisdiction. Background This is a civil action alleging a ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where defendant acquired plaintiff employer’s trade secrets through proper means, retained them after she was discharged and has not used or disclosed them or threatened to do so, she has not violated the Virginia Uniform Trade Secrets Act. However, defendant ...

Tagged with: Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where a former employee had no property interest in continued employment, her claim for deprivation of due process under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 failed as a matter of law. Background In this § 1983 action, Crystal P. Grant, a former ...

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

High-level employee alleged that she was promptly placed under investigation and adversely transferred out of her position in retaliation for providing unfavorable testimony against the COO of the organization in an EEOC complaint that was filed by a subordinate employee. ...

Tagged with: Employment Settlement

The Supreme Court of Virginia has recognized a church’s “special relationship” duty to protect children from a known dangerous employee. The new opinion also offers a host of guidance in other aspects of pleading a case. The decision builds on ...

Tagged with: Criminal Employment Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Supreme Court of Virginia News

Even though he appealed his termination from a state grievance process, a fired Virginia State Police special agent did not lose his right to sue in federal court for discrimination under federal law, a federal appeals court has ruled. The ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Employment Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

Where an employee signed an offer letter extended by the company that had acquired the company she had been working for, her agreement to the jury waiver contained within the offer letter was voluntary even though she would have missed ...

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