Where a subcontractor providing laundry and linen services to a general contractor under that party’s contract with the University of Virginia sought liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees when its subcontract was ended early after UVA terminated the main contract, its ...

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Where the defendants were sued for negligently recommending a company to transport show horses, one of which was injured in an automobile accident, the claim failed because there can be no negligent hiring claim where there is no injury to ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the former line mechanic for a power company could no longer perform the essential functions of his position because of his shoulder injury and restrictions associated with his surgery, his failure to accommodate claim failed as a matter of ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

A federal jury awarded a Roanoke County couple $430,000 in an eminent domain case on May 14, the first such verdict among cases related to the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. The verdict was reached after a four-day trial in federal ...

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Where there were disputed issues of material fact over whether the highest and best use of a tract of land in Roanoke County was single-family residential, the motion of a company constructing a natural gas pipeline was denied. The court ...

Tagged with: Commercial Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where counsel for a defendant accused of money laundering never formed an attorney-client relationship with another defendant, never obtained any privileged information from that defendant nor was ever consulted or communicated with his lawyer, there was no conflict of interest ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where reference to comparable sales was wrong or speculative, possible pipeline hazards are not inherent in an easement and the substance of other appraisals was inadmissible hearsay, the landowners’ expert was barred from testifying on these topics in a condemnation ...

Tagged with: Commercial Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where trial counsel for a defendant challenging his incarceration for malicious wounding of a police officer relied on a then-recent mental competency exam and the defendant’s own denial of mental illness history, his performance was not constitutionally deficient. The defendant’s ...

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Where a former auto dealership employee argued she first saw the arbitration agreement when it was attached to the company’s motion to compel arbitration over her sex bias, harassment and hostile work environment claims, and said she had no memory ...

Tagged with: Arbitration Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the prime contractor’s breach of contract claim would resolve whether a subcontractor failed to meet deadlines and whether the prime contractor suffered damages, its declaratory judgment claim was dismissed as redundant. Background In May 2011, the United States Army ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District