After granting defendant’s motion to compel, an Alexandria U.S. District Court awards defendant’s lawyer attorney’s fees, based on Northern Virginia rates, not New York rates. Defendant’s attorney represents that the hourly rates for him and his New York attorneys and ...

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

Although plaintiff contends defendants improperly instituted a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding on her home, an Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses her complaint with prejudice. Two cases with near identical facts were brought in this district and dismissed on similar grounds, Merino ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s employment discrimination case against the Fairfax County Public School Board because service was untimely, as the unperfected service attempted while the case was pending in Maryland was insufficient to satisfy Rule 4(m) and ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant National Head Start Association Inc., in this wrongful termination suit filed by the NHSA’s former president and CEO, who alleges NHSA board officers breached her contract and defamed her when ...

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

In this decision from an Alexandria U.S. District Court, a construction company wins its suit alleging fraudulent inducement and false advertising by defendant with regard to its policy for allowing premium refunds on a surety bond plaintiff company needed to ...

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

In this patent infringement case involving direct competitors in the business of making and selling air cushion products and apparatus, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants defendant Free-Flow Packaging International’s motion for summary judgment as to the FPI-Pactiv agreement because ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants plaintiff Citigroup’s claim for injunctive relief in this in rem action pursuant to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and orders that defendant registrants’ actions have violated the ACPA and VeriSign Inc. Is ordered to ...

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

A government contractor has absolute immunity from civil liability for defamation for statements about plaintiff’s billing practices in response to a government contracting officer’s immunity, and defendant contractor’s consultant agreement with plaintiff also allowed defendant’s contracts manager to make the ...

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