Nearly two years after his wife’s death, Defendant Can Chau Nguyen could not be considered a “slayer” and was entitled to her life-insurance benefits, whether or not county sheriffs had officially “ruled him out” as a suspect in her death. ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies eight post-trial motions filed by defendant, the former treasurer for the city of Norfolk, and upholds defendant’s public corruption and perjury convictions at the conclusion of a five-week trial. Defendant has made the following ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A contentious condemnation case has produced a federal court ruling that the city of Virginia Beach is liable for violating the constitutional rights of a dentist and his practice. Among the judge’s findings is the conclusion that the city unlawfully ...

Tagged with: Condemnation Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A lawyer – and his law firm – have been disqualified by a Norfolk federal judge in a patent case because the plaintiff discov­ered its former lawyer among the defense firm’s newer partners. The court was hearing a patent dispute ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A dentist who alleges he was told by the city that he had to relocate from the building that had housed his practice for over 30 years because the city was buying the building, and that he would receive relocation ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A home care aide whose work shift had ended, but who said she was picking up a prescription as a “personal favor” for a client, did not have coverage for a traffic accident under her employer’s policy, a Norfolk federal ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr.

A defendant under investigation for re­ceipt of child pornography through the Play­pen website, available on the “Tor” network, cannot suppress evidence obtained through the government’s use of a Network Inves­tigative Technique to access his computer, nor is he entitled to ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A landscaping company whose driver rear-ended plaintiff can be sued for negli­gent entrustment and negligent retention based on allegations that the employer knew the landscaper had been involved in another recent collision with the same truck and trailer, and the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An owner of a 6.8-acre parcel along the waterfront of the Elizabeth River may sue defendant owner who allegedly has “overcrowded the waterway” with idle, rusting vessels, that fill with bilge water and discharge pollutants; the Norfolk U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff trustee’s ERISA suit alleging defendant, who sold her stock to a company she founded in order to set up an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and who allegedly based her sale price on a overvaluation of the stock, the ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District