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

Ruling that concerns about latex exposure in a hospital workplace were mere speculation without testing, a federal judge has allowed the disability discrimination claim of a woman with a latex allergy to advance to trial. The decision last month by ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court overrules defendant’s objection to the court’s calculation of defendant’s base offense level of 22 in sentencing him on his guilty plea to firearm possession by a convicted felon; defendant’s prior robbery conviction counts toward this ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges defendant collection agency continued to note on her credit report a debt to a radiologist after plaintiff’s notice that the debt was disputed, fails to state how she was damaged by this alleged act, and the ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a defamation counterclaim filed by a lawyer who alleges he was defamed by statements defendant movie company made about the lawyer’s role in an effort to acquire the rights to make “Birth of the ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges defendant failed to note on a credit report that a debt was disputed has not alleged she suffered any damages and has no standing to sue under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, says an Alexandria ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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