Plaintiff company wins attorney’s fees and costs of $342,819.55 under Virginia and federal computer crimes statutes, after winning a jury verdict in its suit alleging its former human resources director sabotaged company computers and disclosed confidential information in violation of ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

“You’re dead to me,” is a curse that strikes hard. It hits hard too when a federal judge tells a lawyer her client’s case is “dead,” even as the lawyer argues that it is “alive and kicking” despite a dispute ...

Tagged with: Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Federal Courts Judge Gerald Bruce Lee

Although a Virginia state court vacated a nonsuit order, entered on plaintiff’s nonsuit motion filed one day before expiration of the one-year statutory service period, service of process on defendants one day after the nonsuit was vacated was defective and ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiffs’ suit challenging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s denial of his application for a patent relating to a method for treating tumors with formic acid, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment for the PTO’s rejection of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit by an Algerian citizen against former government officials alleging abuse, mistreatment and torture by U.S. military personnel during plaintiff’s detention in multiple countries, the suit is dismissed because, among other reasons, the Military Commissions Act bars courts ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Lasership Inc. in this suit filed by a purported class of delivery truck drivers who allege they were misclassified under the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Statute, M.G.L. 149 § 148B. Though ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Here’s how missing the Super Bowl can get your case into federal court. Residents of two NoVa subdivisions chafed under contracts that said they could subscribe to one, and only one, cable provider. The folks in Lansdowne on the Potomac, ...

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In this dispute between an Afghan company that subcontracted logistics services for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a Virginia global logistics services contractor, a counterclaim is not barred by the parties’ earlier “agreement to agree,” and the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says although the parties’ loan documents allow a bank to collect attorney’s fees for expenses “incurred to enforce” the loan documents, the documents’ fee-shifting provisions do not cover the bank’s legal fees for defending a ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this race discrimination case against a commercial lender, plaintiff entrepreneur and his companies have failed to raise any genuine issues of material fact about defendant bank’s denial of loan extensions, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District