A rural mail carrier who asked a friend to email his union steward to state he would not return from his two and one-half weeks of annual leave because he was ill did not make a proper request for leave ...

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

A plaintiff’s suit for $95,000 in damages against a credit corporation that allegedly failed to file a certificate of satisfaction formally extinguishing a deed of trust the corporation held on plaintiff’s residence in 2004 is dismissed by the Alexandria U.S. ...

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

An Oregon company that developed new “SawStop” safety technology for table saws has failed to state antitrust conspiracy claims against a wide array of industry competitors, some of whom licensed plaintiffs’ technology, and who allegedly refused to deal with plaintiff ...

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

An inventor who currently has at least 399 patent applications pending in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has implemented special procedures for processing the applications, is not entitled to judicial review of the PTO’s decision that 35 U.S.C. ...

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

A security consultant who allegedly helped defendant contractor form a business relationship and enter into a Teaming Agreement with another company, TechnoSource LLC, for federal contracting work, could be terminated by the contractor because the security consultant was an at-will ...

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

An inventor cannot recover from defendant company for breach of a Nondisclosure Agreement, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says; Invention Notes from defendant’s employee show he invented the process for multiple adhesive points for a shingle for the company’s new ...

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

A plaintiff stopped for speeding who asked not to be issued a ticket as a “professional courtesy” and represented that he was a fire marshal with Fairfax and Stafford Counties cannot bring a civil rights suit against defendant deputy who, ...

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

A business project manager who took eight months’ medical leave in light of an alleged heart attack and who was granted work-from-home privileges and a reduced schedule during this period, loses her suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as ...

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

A candidate for a Ph.D. degree in organization and management from defendant Capella Education, who twice failed the exam to receive his doctoral degree and was found to have plagiarized a quotation in his submission, cannot sue defendant under the ...

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

Although plaintiffs, who lost their home to foreclosure, allege defendant Wells Fargo promised a loan modification if they made payments under a Trial Period Plan, plaintiffs have no contractual right to a loan modification, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court ...

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