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Employment: Court dismisses ERISA claims against Northrop Grumman
Where plaintiffs argued defendants violated ERISA when they failed to apply forfeited Plan contributions to Plan expenses or employees’ account restoration, but the Plan did not require to first use forfeitures to restore participants’ accounts or pay administrative expenses before the forfeitures may be used to reduce the company’s contributions, the ERISA claims were dismissed.
Employment: Former police officer’s due process claims dismissed
Where the former officer failed to plead facts making his due process claims plausible, they were dismissed.
Consumer Protection: Fairfax County School Board sued Virginia Employment Commission
Where the Fairfax County School Board alleged the Virginia Employment Commission and its commissioner unlawfully seized over $5 million from the school district’s student activity fund to cover unemployment insurance payments, and sought return of those seized funds, the school district did not plausibly allege ultra vires actions by or relief against defendants sufficient to overcome the protec[...]
Administrative: Government contractors are debarred
Where plaintiffs challenged the debarment decision, but some of their arguments were not raised at the administrative level and were thus waived, and they failed to show the government’s decision was arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with the law, it was affirmed.
Consumer Protection: Capital One allegedly misappropriated commissions through browser extension
Where the plaintiffs plausibly pleaded facts that the Capital One Shopping browser extension misappropriates commissions, their putative class action lawsuit largely survived Capital One’s motion to dismiss.
Employment: Notice authorized in FLSA delivery driver overtime suit
Where two delivery drivers made the “modest factual showing” that they were misclassified as independent contractors, the court authorized notice to an identified class of similarly situated persons.
Securities: Putative securities fraud class action suit is dismissed
Where former officers of a public company were sued for making 13 allegedly false or materially misleading statements or omissions that inflated the company’s stock price over a three-year period, but the statements were not actionable for a variety of reasons, the putative securities fraud class action suit was dismissed.
Antitrust: GoDaddy.com sued for negative tying restriction
Where a company plausibly alleged that GoDaddy.com violated Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and that its conduct tortiously interfered with the company’s existing business contracts and future business […]
Patent and Trademark: Marriott obtains $8M million default judgment
Where non-responding defendants willfully used Marriott’s trademarks in over 66 million robocalls between 2018 and 2022, they were enjoined from further infringing conduct and Marriott was awarded $8 million in […]
Retirement: Excessive fees suit is dismissed
Where the member of a retirement plan alleged her employer permitted excess fees to be charged to plan member accounts for managed-account services and legal fees, but she failed to […]
Prisons: Doctors prevail on inmate’s deliberate indifference claim
Where an inmate alleged two doctors were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, but one doctor was not personally involved or deliberately indifferent, and the other doctor had no direct […]
Antitrust: Sherman Act claims dismissed as untimely
Where plaintiffs alleged that defendants entered into an “unwritten gentlemen’s agreement” to not recruit others’ employees, in violation of the Sherman Act, but they did not file suit within the […]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Unicycle rider dies after being hit by car
- Premises Liability – Delivery driver injured by porch decking collapse
- Premises Liability – Fall down stairs at resort results in injuries, death
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with doctor in suit over rescue surgery
- Workers’ Compensation- Seasonal worker paralyzed in tobacco baler accident
- Medical Malpractice- Death from cancer followed stomach pain misdiagnosis
- Workers’ Compensation – Struck in face by forklift, woman suffers brain injury
- Negligence and Tort – Group home resident falls, sustaining femur fracture
- Medical Malpractice – Nursing facility patient dies after fracturing ankle in fall
- Medical Malpractice- Patient has bladder injury during colostomy reversal
- Premises Liability- Apartment guest burned by gas grill spewing fire
Opinion Digests
- The Most Important Opinions, January-June 2026
- Criminal – Court of Appeals wrongly vacated murder conviction
- Tort – U.Va. prevails on former professor’s claims
- Constitutional – Company’s due process claim against county is dismissed
- Administrative – Plaintiffs’ effort to enjoin ITC proceeding fails
- Patent and trademark – Amazon patent infringement suit transferred to New Jersey
- Tort – Chesterfield County dismissed from wrongful death suit
- Consumer Protection – Lawsuit over kratom survives motion to dismiss
- Criminal – Defendant convicted of attempted sexual exploitation of a child
- Evidence – Motion to exclude transmission expert is rejected
- Damages – Court awards pre-judgment interest following parties’ acquiescence
- Employment – Court approves overtime wage collective action settlement
