A Virginia inmate who alleges he suffered severe mental anguish as a result of his participation in a medical study at the University of Virginia’s Center for Addiction Research and Education has not complied with the Virginia statutory requirement that ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court grants defendant insurance carrier’s motion to consolidate these two declaratory judgment actions, and realigns the defendants in the underlying tort suit as coplaintiffs in the declaratory judgment action. Plaintiffs brought separate actions against Western Heritage ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

In the wake of a Charlottesville U.S. District Court’s decision upholding a jury verdict for defendant in plaintiff’s suit claiming fraudulent inducement to make her responsible for mortgage, insurance and tax payments on a horse farm and breeding operation she ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who had a decades-long intimate relationship with defendant, with whom she also had a contract to operate a Nelson County horse farm and breeding operation, is not entitled to judgment as a matter of law on her claim ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

Having her car struck three times by a tractor-trailer that left the scene of the accident did not let a woman sue a trucking company for punitive damages, a Roanoke federal court said on Sept. 26. But the judge said ...

Tagged with: Alleghany County Circuit Court Federal Courts Judge Glen E. Conrad Personal Injury

In a suit filed by plaintiff company to recover rent payments defendants allegedly guaranteed under a loan from Lehman Brothers Bank FSB used to finance a Roanoke retail site that plaintiff purchased at a foreclosure sale, the Roanoke U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who arrived at a Lake Anna rental home to begin cleaning as defendants packed to leave can try her personal injury claim against defendants, owners of “Grendel,” a 110-pound German Shepherd, who bit plaintiff after defendants’ son-in-law told ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

In an investment company’s securities fraud suit alleging defendant made false representations about a medical device he claimed to have created to treat sleep apnea, causing plaintiff to invest over $3 million into an LLC it formed with defendant, the ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Securities Fraud U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who was wrongfully convicted in 2001 of murder may sue defendant law enforcement officials for suppression of exculpatory evidence, in violation of plaintiff’s civil rights, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court says. Plaintiff Michael Hash was convicted for the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A former employee of General Dynamics who alleges she suffers from severe depression and was terminated after she had taken leave because of her mental health condition failed to file her suit alleging Title VII and ADA violations within 90 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District