An Alexandria U.S. District Court awards United Airlines summary judgment in this Title VII hostile environment suit filed by two African-American flight attendants who allege they were subjected to insinuations that they were involved in a prostitution ring run out ...

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

A physician may not sue his former employer, ExxonMobil, and other ExxonMobil employees for fraud, emotional distress and wrongful discharge, based on his allegation that he was fired in retaliation for his discovery that ExxonMobil had been operating illegal pharmacies ...

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

A former client who says a law firm administrator absconded with funds the client transferred to the firm may not sue the firm on claims of negligent hiring, retention and supervision, nor does he have a separate claim for vicarious ...

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

A patent assignee cannot pursue an interlocutory appeal of a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute inter partes review proceedings on claims relating to its patent involving simulation, prototyping and debugging of integrated circuits, an Alexandria ...

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

Plaintiff Deutsche Bank, assignee of an IndyMac loan, is not entitled to obtain priority over a government lien to satisfy a judgment of restitution against the mortgage borrower, which was recorded in the Fairfax County land records but overlooked by ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A group of drivers for a car service could not be certified as a collective class under the Fair Labor Standards Act because their claims require individual factual inquiries, according to a federal judge in Alexandria. The case – which ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Judge Claude M. Hilton Labor

On the parties’ post-trial motions after a jury resolution of patent infringement claims by plaintiff against defendant,  involving technology that enables one computer to access another computer remotely, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the jury found the subject patent ...

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

Defendant Federal Aviation Administration has met its obligation to respond to a FOIA request filed by a former employee who requested “all documents pertaining to a May 14, 2010 Request for Interpretation” from an identified individual of COMAIR Inc.; the ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses relator’s remaining False Claims Act counts against alleged coconspirators who purportedly defrauded the government on contracts to employ severely disabled workers, in the wake of a government settlement with relator on his FCA claims ...

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

Although a disability income rider to plaintiff’s group term life insurance initially did not indicate a maximum benefit period per single disability period, the late provision of a corrected certificate specifications page stating a two-year maximum benefit period did not ...

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