An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to plaintiff company in its suit seeking indemnification for a New Mexico tax assessment for an office that defendant seller allegedly concealed from plaintiff in the parties’ Stock Purchase Agreement; the uncertain ...

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In plaintiff Seale & Associates’ suit against Ingersoll-Rand Company for payment for its services as exclusive agent to assist with the sale of the Cal-O-Rex water heater business, the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to Seale, finding the ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court says res judicata does not bar plaintiff’s Title VII suit; although the summary judgment decision was a final judgment on the merits in plaintiff ’s prior suit against the FDIC and the parties are the ...

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

In this dispute over insurance coverage for collapse of a wall at a Washington, D.C., row house under renovation, the workmanship exclusion precludes cover­age because plaintiff contractor’s acts in excavation of the basement coupled with failure to install underpinning to ...

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

In this contract dispute between plain­tiff purchaser of all stock in the TDG com­pany and the seller who was sole owner of the stock, over tax indemnification and attorney’s fees for a lawsuit against TDG, an Alexandria U.S. District Court ...

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In this Lanham Act suit by plaintiff Se­lect Auto Imports Inc. against Yates Se­lect Auto Sales LLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court finds that all nine factors in the likelihood of confusion analysis weigh in favor of plaintiff or are ...

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

Lawyers looking for a catalogue of comments offensive to Arab-Americans in the workplace can consult a new source: a federal appeals court decision that says it’s up to a jury to decide whether remarks such as “camel people” can create ...

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A 54-year-old male construction worker cannot sue for disability discrimination based on his employer’s alleged termination of him because of his hernia because he failed to raise this claim in his EEOC administrative charge alleging age discrimination; the Alex­andria U.S. ...

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

Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali passed away last Friday, prompting former Fairfax Bar President Paul Terpak to recall the day that the Greatest appeared in Fairfax to salute firms that participated in a minority hiring program.

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Alexandria U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee is the recipient of the 2016 Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference’s Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award. Lee is being honored for fostering, encouraging, and facilitating diversity and inclusion in the bar, the ...

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