The City of Richmond prevailed on the failure-to-accommodate claim because merely informing a supervisor about disabilities is not sufficient to trigger an interactive process. Background Plaintiff Tyrus Yerby alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Plaintiff alleges that the ...

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Where a law firm incurred costs and fees, including expert fees, during defense of the client’s case, and the client introduced no evidence to support its claim that those expenses were unnecessary, the client was liable for unpaid fees and ...

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Where a law firm incurred costs and fees, including expert fees, during defense of the client’s case, and the client introduced no evidence to support its claim that those expenses were unnecessary, the client was liable for unpaid fees and ...

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Where an agency of the federal government was the proper defendant, the former employee failed to exhaust his administrative remedies and the plain language of the Federal Tort Claims Act barred his claims, the government was dismissed from the case. ...

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Where the government agreed to dismiss certain counts in a superseding indictment after the defendant pleaded guilty to two counts related to robbery, the defendant’s successful argument, which he made years later, that he could not be held liable for ...

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Although the former registrar for the City of Hopewell alleged it did not  reasonably accommodate her “known physical impairments,” her claims for disability discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, were dismissed because ...

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A Virginia law firm is defending its litigation strategy in a bid to collect more than $165,000 in unpaid bills from a disgruntled client. The client – a defendant in a chemical exposure case – avoided liability with a statute ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Fees Contract fees Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Western District

A company that retained a law firm to represent it in a lawsuit, but then stopped paying the law firm’s invoices, is liable for attorneys’ and expert fees and costs, with the amounts to be determined at an evidentiary hearing. ...

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A libel suit against CBS brought by a “well known” Virginia legislator who ran for mayor of the City of Richmond was dismissed because the broadcast was a “political commentary protected by the First Amendment” and supported by a Supreme ...

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After police lawfully stopped defendant’s vehicle because of defective tag light, they had a reasonable suspicion that he was armed and dangerous based upon several factors, including a “large bulge” in his pocket, and they conducted a proper patdown. The ...

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