The court held that Mountain Valley Pipeline had the right to condemn affected easements, but could not possess them before determining fair value. On October 13, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a Certificate Order authorizing Plaintiff Mountain Valley ...

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

A federal judge rejected two claims of government misconduct before sending a prescription fraud case to trial last week. Washington lawyer John L. Brownlee, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, said his cellphone records had been ...

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

In this Title VII complaint alleging a hostile work environment and discrimination in termination, a Roanoke U.S. District Court finds sufficient evidence was presented by a white woman, married to a black man, with five biracial children, to let a ...

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

Plaintiff asserts three defendants failed to comply with the terms of the note and deed of trust on her home and seeks to rescind the sale of her property to a fourth defendant, all four of whom were involved in ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

In this lawsuit filed by three plaintiffs against the freight broker that hired a tractor-trailer driver who allegedly caused multiple crashes and the death of two persons and severe injury to a third person, the Roanoke U.S. District Court excludes ...

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

In this dispute between two producers of “wood-alternative decking,” a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses as “puffery” plaintiff’s Lanham Act claims based on statements that defendant is “number one” and the “preferred premium leader” in product categories, but refuses to ...

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

In this Miller Act suit arising from a subcontract between PAT USA Inc. and VT Milcom Inc. for VT Milcom to provide labor and materials for installation of telecommunications systems in Qatar for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, ...

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

In responding to discovery requests, a party cannot simply assert that a “document speaks for itself as the best evidence of its contents,” and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court deems “admitted” certain requests for admission and will award reasonable attorney’s ...

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

Defendants’ assertion that, despite no proper diversity or federal question jurisdiction, their counterclaim against plaintiff provides a basis for federal court jurisdiction does not persuade the Roanoke U.S. District Court, and the case is remanded to Virginia state court. Defendants ...

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

A customer who alleges defendant Wal-Mart knew, during roofing work at the store, of three separate instances of material falling from the ceiling and striking customers, but took no action to protect customers prior to plaintiff being struck by a ...

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