Where the plaintiff was terminated as treasurer by one company and was not hired by a successive employer, his suit alleging age discrimination failed because he presented no evidence that his age was the reason for the employment decisions. Background ...

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

Where a defendant failed to respond to the breach of contract complaint, and the record showed the defendant had breached a contract, the plaintiff was awarded almost $950,000 in damages. Background On May 15, 2019, plaintiff filed this lawsuit alleging ...

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

Where the facts showed a former employee was terminated after the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, or MWAA, conducted a legitimate internal investigation into his conduct, that his complaints about the workplace were normal disagreements or managerial judgments and that he ...

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

Where the evidence was insufficient to find an executive of a company co-owned by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn acted as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and engaged in a conspiracy, the court vacated the jury’s findings. ...

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

Where the current post-inclusion process of challenging being listed in the federal government’s Terrorist Screening Database, or TSDB, does not provide a constitutionally adequate opportunity to rebut evidence relied upon in assigning a person TSBD status, it violates the Due ...

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

Where the owner of two government contract companies withdrew monies from those companies so that they were unable to pay two law firms for legal work they performed, the facts were found sufficient to pierce the corporate veil and the ...

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

Where an employee had received negative performance reviews for five years before her termination, and her termination occurred at least five months after she engaged in any protected activity, she could not pursue claims of retaliation against her employer. Background ...

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

Where a plaintiff provided a defendant of a draft of its motion for sanctions under Rule 11 only nine days before the case was stayed, and the stay was not lifted before the case was dismissed, the plaintiff’s motion for ...

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

Where a three-member American Arbitration Association panel awarded the petitioner more than $10 million based on the respondent’s default of a subcontract between the parties, and the respondent failed to answer or respond to the properly served and timely petition ...

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

Where a defendant’s in-house counsel told the plaintiff that they were not planning to object to the federal court’s subject matter jurisdiction and their outside counsel later discovered that the defendant’s corporate citizenship negated the complete diversity of the parties, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Practice Judge Anthony J. Trenga