A Roanoke U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Volvo Trucks of North America in this suit filed by three female employees who allege the company violated Title VII by denying plaintiffs promotion to the position of product quality ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses a military prisoner’s motion for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 from his life imprisonment after a general court-martial for conspiracy to commit murder and premeditated murder for the hanging death of a ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses a charge of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 514 against a defendant who allegedly defrauded Hammersley Motors when she mailed an IRS Form 1099-OID, as that form is not an “actual security or other ...

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

A debtor who was upside-down on her mortgage and didn’t take a homestead exemption in her real estate nevertheless can avoid a judicial lien in favor of claimant credit union, says a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court in this case of ...

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

Although a Roanoke U.S. District Court has jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1503 to hear plaintiff’s request for a declaration that she is a U.S. citizen and her demand for a U.S. passport, which had been denied, the court holds ...

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

Furnishings for a bankrupt hotel are not “improvements” that can be claimed under a mechanic’s lien, and a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court reverses a bankruptcy court order allowing the furniture to be claimed in a supplier’s mechanic’s lien. Summit argues ...

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

Employees of the Alliant Ammunition & Powder Company who were called back to work on their regularly scheduled days off are entitled to overtime pay under their union contract, and a Roanoke U.S. District Court affirms an arbitration award in ...

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

A defendant’s Rule 11 hearing demonstrates his knowing and voluntary guilty plea to an agreement that included a waiver of his right to collateral attack, and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court denies his § 2255 motion challenging a sentencing enhancement ...

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

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses a lawsuit filed by a sports-advocacy group against James Madison University alleging that JMU violated Title IX and the federal constitution by eliminating 10 varsity athletic teams in 2007, including men’s cross-country, track and ...

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