A consultant hired by a two-man dental practice is facing a claim for treble damages and attorney’s fees under Virginia’s business conspiracy statutes. Last month, a Harrisonburg federal court refused to dismiss the suit filed by Frederick Broadhead, DMD, against ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses an assistant female prosecutor’s Title VII retaliatory termination claim against the commonwealth’s attorney, who is not an “employer” subject to  Title VII; plaintiff may proceed with her Equal Pay Act claim against the commonwealth’s ...

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An Abingdon U.S. District Court transfers venue in a hospital med-mal insurance carrier’s subrogation action against the remaining defendants in a wrongful death suit alleging failure to timely diagnose a woman’s lung cancer; the suit is transferred to the Eastern ...

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Plaintiff was employed from May 2010 to Aug. 29, 2012, as a support staff and as instructor of electronics at one of the defendant’s private school called Shenandoah Academy. The school, located in Harrisonburg, provided educational services to elementary through ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court says a female student has stated a plausible Title IX claim against James Madison University with her allegations that while a JMU student, she was sexually assaulted by three male JMU students, one of whom ...

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In approving settlement of a wrongful death action arising from the death of a 34-year-old tractor-trailer driver, the Roanoke U.S. District Court awards the bulk of the $395,000 settlement to the driver’s aunt and uncle with whom he had lived ...

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A pro se plaintiff who alleges he was fired by UPS after his supervisor failed to forward to management his text messages saying he was ill and could not work unloading trucks for several days during the busy holiday season ...

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Property owners in Augusta County who challenge defendants’ proposed entry onto their property as authorized by Va. Code § 56-49.01 to survey for construction of natural gas pipeline across plaintiffs’ land cannot sue for trespass; the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court ...

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Property owners in Nelson County lose their constitutional challenge to defendants’ assertion of a right under Va. Code § 56-49.01 to enter onto plaintiffs’ property to survey for a natural gas pipeline should proposed routes for the pipeline change to ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss this pro se suit filed by an engineer who alleges his hours were reduced when his certification was suspended due to defendant accrediting organization’s failure to identify a ...

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