Where a former medical assistant for the University of Virginia Medical Center alleged her termination was the result of race discrimination, at the motion to dismiss stage UVA could not rely on her termination document to argue that she was ...

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

Where the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, alleged companies who act as an intermediary between immigration detainees and sureties and their bond agents made misrepresentations, the court had subject matter jurisdiction. Although there are limitations in the scope of ...

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

Where an auto parts warehouse distributor sought to introduce a presentation by plaintiff, an automotive parts supplier, that discussed the results of the supplier’s annual audit of its business practices at trial, the presentation was excluded because the audit evidence ...

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

Where a jury is to decide the compensation due to landowners whose property was acquired as part of an easement for construction of an interstate natural gas pipeline, evidence of fear and stigma, and claims that the property was dangerous ...

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

Where a company handbook required an employee to be actively employed when a payment was received from the customer in order to be paid commission, and the former sales consultant was no longer employed when the company received payment from ...

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

Where an automotive parts supplier alleged that a warehouse distributor breached the parties’ contract, but the record showed the supplier committed the first breach by failing to keep the distributor competitive in the marketplace, the distributor was granted summary judgment. ...

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

Where the defendant argued that one of the two convictions used to sentence him as a career offender under then-mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.1 would no longer qualify as a crime of violence, but neither the Supreme Court nor ...

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

Where documents and a declaration from the IRS showed that owners of a pallet company failed to pay taxes withheld from employees’ salaries, and instead used the money to pay creditors, the owners were liable for over $400,000 in unpaid ...

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

Where the personal trainer for the former president of Liberty University alleged he was defamed in two articles published in 2019, his March 2021 suit was dismissed because it was filed beyond Virginia’s one-year defamation statute of limitations. Although one ...

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

Where a driver alleged a road repaving company was responsible for his auto accident, and the parties disputed where the accident occurred and whether the driver switched lanes despite a posted “stay in lane” sign, the company’s motion for summary ...

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