Where a conflict of interest disqualified a law firm from representing a Russian bank that sought discovery in aid of an alleged fraud, its subpoenas were quashed. The bank could seek them again through conflict-free counsel. Background VUZ Bank JSC ...

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

A federal jury will hear the claims of a life-long hunter who fell 20 feet to the ground when corroded support cables for a treestand snapped during installation. The manufacturer argued that the hunter lacked evidence of defective design. Further, ...

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

Where a detainee sued the United States Postal Service, or USPS, for failing to respond to his requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, but the record showed he sent his requests to the wrong component of the ...

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

In a takings case involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, a federal court has excluded a landowner’s experts who sought to establish the fair market value of her condemned land and the expected depreciation of her remaining land. Judge ...

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

Where the plaintiff was resisting arrest, directed vulgar threats towards a sheriff’s deputy and then shoved him to the ground, and the deputy reasonably perceived the plaintiff to be a threat, his use of a barehand takedown maneuver was rationally ...

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

A federal court has dismissed a male student’s claim that a university’s disciplinary board discriminated against him because it found both he and his ex-girlfriend were responsible for misconduct, but gave him a harsher penalty. The student contended that the ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Western District of Virginia

Where one expert for the landowner in a condemnation damages trial offered an opinion that was not reliable, a second expert’s opinion was not adequately supported by data and a third expert’s report did not disclose his actual opinions or ...

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

Where a former employee alleged, upon information and belief, that his age contributed to his termination, and his information and belief was based upon his own personal knowledge and an alleged conversation with another employee, that was sufficient to plead ...

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

Where the former employee alleged that his race was the reason why he was terminated for taking sick leave while another employee was not, but there were no allegations that his comparator’s health issues stemmed from COVID-19, the comparator’s instances ...

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

Where a former employee of the Virginia Department of Transportation, or VDOT, argued that he was terminated and subjected to a hostile work environment because of his race, and he sought large swatches of social media evidence from current and ...

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