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 ...

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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

A credit union that alleges defendants used improper tactics to recover its debt failed to establish that its suit was properly filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. The court found that 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c) does not apply to ...

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

Where an individual was found with funds containing traces of controlled substances while going through security at an airport and was unable to provide documentation to support any of his inconsistent claims regarding the source of those funds, the funds ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges he suffered injuries during spinal fusion surgery did not abandon his claims against non-diverse defendants, and because the removal occurred more than one year after the suit was filed in state court without a showing of ...

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

Finding no sign of a bad faith effort to prevent removal, a federal judge has remanded a medical products liability action to state court and said he would award fees and costs to the plaintiff’s attorneys. The decision sends a ...

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

An air conditioning contractor that allegedly failed to make required contributions on behalf of journeymen and apprentice plumbers and pipefitters was found liable to the pension fund for liquidated damages, interest from the date the payments were due and attorney ...

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

A patent lawyer’s legal malpractice claim against his bankruptcy lawyer has been revived by the Supreme Court of Virginia, offering some hope of recovery for the patent lawyer after a long series of setbacks, in and out of court. Mark ...

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