A customer cannot survive summary judgment in his slip-and-fall suit against Wal-Mart with a late proffer of a purported conversation among store employees about the wet spot on the floor where he slipped and was briefly knocked unconscious; the Richmond ...

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A magistrate judge for the Richmond U.S. District Court says an African-American boat painter with 16 years experience who filed an EEOC charge after he was fired without explanation by Deltaville Boatyard LLC, can amend his Title VII lawsuit alleging ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A “summons” to answer debtor interrogatories issued by a Virginia state court to debtor is not a “pleading” and debtor cannot sue defendant law firm for an alleged violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, says a magistrate judge ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a bank’s lawsuit against a lawyer to cover the trust account overdraft that resulted after a wire transfer on a fake check deposited in a Chinese version of the “Nigerian Check Scam,” a magistrate judge for the Richmond U.S. ...

Tagged with: Banks & Banking Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

It wasn’t a Nigerian prince, but a Chinese CEO who tripped up an Ashland lawyer in a newer version of a familiar scam that has the victim forwarding his own funds to cover a fake check. In the Asian version, ...

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Defendant Verizon South wins summary judgment in this Title VII and § 1981 employment discrimination suit filed by an African-American woman who lost her job as part of a reduction in force, but who claims she was terminated in retaliation ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

With stashes and caches of documents to track and manage, litigators worry about “inadvertent disclosure” of documents to an opponent during discovery. To make a case for “clawing back” a document that got into the wrong hands, a lawyer has ...

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A Richmond federal jury has rejected a 60-year-old woman’s claim of age discrimination after she lost her top spot in a school system’s public relations office to her younger male assistant. After day-long deliberations on Nov. 19, the jury apparently ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Judge Dennis Dohnal

In this suit in which a contractor alleges injuries from the explosion of a ship’s propane tank as he refilled it on land for a commercial fishing operation, a Richmond U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss defendant ...

Tagged with: Admiralty Judge Dennis Dohnal Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A psychologist hired to assist a company with confidential 360 Evaluations for its senior executive staff may have expressed dissatisfaction with a company administrative assistant’s possible role in a “Lost Report Incident,” and have requested that another staff person be ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Dohnal Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District