Where an air traffic controller previously sued the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, alleging that a training disparity was the result of sex discrimination, and the FAA prevailed, res judicata barred his new suit alleging the same conduct was the ...

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

Where a change to the admission requirements of a highly-selective high school had a substantial disparate impact on Asian American students, racial balancing is not a compelling interest and the school board’s actions were not narrowly tailored, the new admission ...

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

Where a gas station placed a sign warning customers about a wet floor, the water was open and obvious and it wasn’t clear if the wet floor or outside rain were the reason for a slip-and-fall, the gas station prevailed ...

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

Where one government contractor alleged a competitor misappropriated trade secrets in order to create a copycat website, but there was no evidence that the defendant government contractor directly shared trade secrets or acquired trade secrets through improper means, the defendants ...

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

Where a transgender detainee alleged a nurse practitioner was liable for the cessation of her hormone injections while she was incarcerated at the Fairfax County adult detention center, her claim was dismissed because there were no allegations showing the nurse’s ...

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

Where the Fairfax County sheriff issued a policy that incarcerated persons at a detention center are classified and housed according to his/her genitalia, the gross negligence claim of a transgender woman who maintains male genitalia was dismissed because the sheriff’s ...

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

Where a homeowner argued the mortgage noteholder lacked standing to initiate foreclosure proceedings because of irregularities in the process by which it was assigned the mortgage, and that claim depended entirely on the interpretation of federal law and federal regulations, ...

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

The project manager’s Miller Act claim failed because any minor physical work he performed was incidental to his contractual duty to supervise, which is a clerical function that falls outside the Miller Act. Background Plaintiff worked as a project manager ...

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

Where the Russian-based operator of two websites that provide “stream ripping” of commercial sound recordings had US -based lawyers, more than 1.5 million web visitors from Virginia, collected visitors’ personal information and Virginia had a strong interest in not becoming ...

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

Although a photographer argued he had standing to challenge the Virginia Values Act because he cannot publish his beliefs about same-sex unions on his website or in his editorial policy without risking a civil fine, this argument was rejected because ...

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