The Western District of Virginia was the improper venue for a dispute over whether a former employee was properly terminated and paid because the employee resides in Maryland and none of the relevant events occurred here. Rather than transfer the ...

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Where the transcript showed the defendant’s corporate designee was not prepared to testify about several topics listed in the corporate deposition notice, a second deposition was ordered and defendant has to pay reasonable expenses and attorneys’ fees. Background Willie Henderson ...

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A corporation being sued over student loan collection practices must produce an executive for a second round of questioning after two federal judges agreed the executive failed to properly prepare for his first corporate designee deposition. The second Rule 30(b)(6) ...

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The disposition of a nonparty subpoena to Twitter issued in a defamation action in the Eastern District of Virginia was transferred to that court because decisions on motions to quash are intertwined with the underlying matter, transfer avoids inconsistent results ...

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Where a former employee failed to plead facts showing Food Lion denied her requested accommodation and conceded that her defamation claims were time-barred, those counts were dismissed. But because she plausibly alleged she experienced a hostile work environment due to ...

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Where a former employee did not show severe or pervasive harassment or that she was constructively discharged, Virginia Tech and the state prevailed on hostile work environment, discrimination and retaliation claims. Background On June 19, 2018, Dr. Kimberly Renae Andrews ...

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Where the Southern Environmental Law Center pleaded that policies and practices of the Department of the Interi­or were being used to violate the Freedom of Information Act, and that it was being injured by those policies, it had standing to ...

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Where the buyer of a car was involved in an accident before title was delivered to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, he was not covered by the seller’s insurance policy because ownership had already transferred and he was not ...

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Where an instructor at a Virginia-based truck driver training and job placement program alleged she was subjected to lewd and lascivious comments by multiple employees, that she stepped down from her position after she complained about the harassment and that ...

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Where a company sued for alleged employment discrimination has been on notice since July 2019 that new counsel was required but no new counsel had entered an appearance, the company was given until Jan. 10, 2020, to find new lawyers ...

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