A plaintiff’s claim that defendant DIRECTV obtained his consumer report from  Equifax, despite the fact that plaintiff never had an account with DIRECTV, unaccompanied by any specific allegations of harm or actual damages to plaintiff, does not show that plaintiff ...

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A former Petersburg police officer who alleges he was dismissed in retaliation for alerting defendants, including the police chief, a police captain and an assistant commonwealth’s attorney, of alleged improprieties of another officer in conducting investigations, has failed to state ...

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A mortgage borrower who alleges that defendant bank scheduled a foreclosure sale on his home even though he complied with defendant’s representation that he could avoid foreclosure and become current in his loan if he gave the bank $11,000 in ...

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A plaintiff’s conclusory assertions of ownership of four identified patents that allegedly are infringed by defendant’s products that provide personal emergency communications systems, are dismissed by the Richmond U.S. District Court for failure to state a claim. Plaintiff’s complaint contains ...

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An agreement for royalty payments from coal mined on certain tracts of land in Wyoming is an executory contract that debtor may reject under 11 U.S.C. § 365, and the Richmond U.S. District Court affirms the bankruptcy court judgment allowing ...

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A transportation company can sue a former employee under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for allegedly, one year after leaving, accessing a Google account created by the employee to manage plaintiff company’s operations, and downloading an archive of nearly ...

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In a Chinese movie studio’s lawsuit against its former lawyer who negotiated film rights to “Birth of the Dragon,” a movie about martial arts legend Bruce Lee, with an entity that did not own the rights, the Richmond U.S. District ...

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In plaintiff ZUP’s suit alleging defendant Nash Manufacturing infringed plaintiff’s patent and design for its “ZUP Board” after a proposed business deal for a joint manufacturing venture turned sour, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants judgment for defendant. Patent claim Both ...

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A legal malpractice carrier won a default judgment against a lawyer’s unhappy client, even though the client said the carrier had served the wrong agent in the carrier’s declaratory judgment action. The carrier was suing for a declaratory judgment that ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court will not dismiss plaintiff’s suit alleging Fannie Mae violated her rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act by unlawfully obtaining her credit report under the false pretense of an “account review,” even though no account ...

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