Two U.S. Magistrate judges have won top recommendations from bar groups for the federal judgeship now held by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, who took senior status June 1. Magistrate Judge David J. Novak of Richmond was in the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After filing a charge of discrimination, a Bed Bath & Beyond manager sent a separate letter alleging that her supervisor encouraged her husband to cheat and retaliated when she complained. A federal court held that these claims weren’t part of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After filing a charge of discrimination, a Bed Bath & Beyond manager sent a separate letter alleging that her supervisor encouraged her husband to cheat and retaliated when she complained. A federal court held that these claims weren’t part of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Civil Procedure Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A law student who was denied testing accommodations by the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners should have sought state-court review. In addition, the Board was immune from the disability claims, and the student failed to state a Fourteenth Amendment claim. ...

Tagged with: Administrative Attorneys Civil Rights Disability Equal Protection Fourteenth Amendment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Because the plaintiff stated a claim against the only defendant to share her citizenship – the substitute trustee that executed foreclosure on her home – the court lacked diversity jurisdiction, and remand to state court was required. Background Plaintiff Norma ...

Tagged with: Banking Civil Procedure Judge Henry E. Hudson Mortgage Real Estate Real Property Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A felon convicted in Richmond Circuit Court did not suffer cognizable violations of his constitutional rights when he was confined in jail, rather than by home electronic monitoring as he believed his sentence directed. Background Plaintiff Roy Black was convicted ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Criminal Judge Henry E. Hudson Sentencing U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A disbarred Richmond lawyer once accused of stripping assets from her own law office in advance of a visit by federal regulators was sentenced March 12 to a year in prison for bankruptcy fraud. Nnika E. White also was convicted ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson

The court dismissed claims by a professor at Defendant Virginia State University that it paid her less on the basis of her sex and retaliated against her after she complained. Plaintiff Zoe Spencer earned a master’s degree in social work ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to consider claims by Plaintiff Oscar Ozfidan (Husband) against both his ex-wife and Henrico Circuit Judge John Marshall, who presided over the couple’s state-court divorce proceedings. After Marshall entered the couple’s divorce, Husband moved ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff Delcie Farmer, a medical employee with a severe latex allergy, may proceed to trial on claims that Defendant HCA Health Services of Virginia subjected her to illegal discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Farmer had been employed ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District