An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants defendant’s motion for a three-week continuance because the government improperly interfered with defendant’s access to witnesses and likely influence over witnesses resulting from the government’s requests that potential witnesses notify the government if they ...

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

Defendant financial services company can assert a bona fide error defense to plaintiff homeowners’ suit alleging defendants’ collection activity for plaintiffs’ homeowners’ association dues violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices, without conceding any violation of the FDCPA; the Alexandria U.S. ...

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

A patent attorney whose Washington state license to practice law was suspended after he failed to pay bar dues or complete mandatory CLE when he left law practice to become a patent agent, and whose former law firm filed a ...

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

A businessman loses his suit alleging defendant builder infringed his copyright for home plans drafted by an architect and copyrighted by the businessman, but the Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendant’s request for attorney’s fees as the plaintiff had a ...

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

In plaintiff DataCell’s suit alleging defendants Visa and MasterCard conspired to restrain trade in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act by ordering licensees to stop payment processing for DataCell  in connection with the WikiLeaks website, an Alexandria U.S. ...

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

Plaintiff Middle East Broadcasting Networks Inc. wins summary judgment in its contract action alleging defendant contractor failed to timely deliver a Blast Resistant Building to the network’s Baghdad business location, despite repeated extensions of the date of performance for the ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court upholds a bankruptcy court’s decision that the trustee may capture debtor’s $36,000 inheritance received after confirmation of her Chapter 13 plan, as debtor failed to present evidence of any necessity for retaining any portion of ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court agreed with defendant Native Americans that plaintiffs’ registered trademarks for the Washington Redskins professional football team “may disparage” a composite of Native American people who contend the Redskins name is a racial slur, and the ...

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

Employer wins summary judgment on a delivery truck driver’s suit alleging employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s prior leg injury requiring surgery and his on-the-job ...

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

Company documentation of progressive discipline and plaintiff’s failure to respond to counseling about staff management, implementation of FedEx Office’s “one piece workflow” model for obtaining customer approval of projects and repeated instances of working overtime without permission, indicate plaintiff was ...

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