The federal court could not exercise jurisdiction over a state-law claim because it lacked a sufficient connection to the federal claims upon which the court’s jurisdiction is based. Background Manuel Milian, Karla Guzman and Ruth Tobar bring this action against ...

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Cassidy, a woman in her mid-20s, was hit by a car while using a crosswalk in Newark, New Jersey, where she had been in Rutgers law school until a few days before. The driver fled the scene. According to the ...

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Plaintiff was awarded total disability from the Railroad Retirement Board in 1998 for degenerative spine disease weakness, pain of his right shoulder and gout. Plaintiff entered the defendants’ hardware store from a public entrance and slipped and fell on a ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Negligence Settlement U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Notwithstanding his claims that bank representatives misled him, the president of a Richmond-based energy company signed loan agreements and guarantees that clearly stated his personal liability for his company’s obligations. Background In 2009, Defendants Dominion Energy Management Inc. and its ...

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Claim on behalf of Petersburg Police Department officers up to the rank of lieutenant for failure to pay overtime. The Virginia Gap Pay Act (§9.1-700 et seq.) requires localities that employ a minimum of 100 law enforcement officers to pay ...

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In a first for Magistrate Judge Novak in the role of mediator, attorneys representing a liquidating trust were subject to sanctions for not complying with his order to submit a settlement memorandum detailing specific allegations to support claims against 27 ...

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Four candidates – two lawyers and two federal judges – have received high marks from the Virginia State Bar in their applications for an Alexandria federal judgeship. The VSB and other statewide bar associations ranked as many as 15 candidates ...

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Plaintiffs who used defendant marina owner’s 1999 Jeep to tow a dinghy up from plaintiffs’ rented boat slip, and who allege they were injured when the Jeep, placed in Park, rolled back into plaintiffs as they attempted to secure the ...

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In this consumer class action alleging de­fendant law firm’s communication violated certain requirements of the 30-day validation notice disclosure in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Richmond U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge approves the par­ties’ amended Settlement Agreement settling ...

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Plaintiff offers only her bare assertion that a curb in a Wawa parking lot creat­ed an unsafe condition that caused her to fall and suffer injury, and she cannot rebut defendant’s expert evidence or oth­erwise demonstrate a genuine issue of ...

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