Although plaintiff’s auto accident and back surgery affected her ability to work and pay off her student loan debt of nearly $20,000, she spent thousands of dollars on gambling trips to Atlantic City, and the Richmond U.S. District Court upholds ...

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

A woman cannot sue a prosecutor and two deputies, who allegedly violated her civil rights by seeing that she was charged with child neglect and marijuana manufacture and distribution, in order to pressure her husband to agree to the commonwealth’s ...

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

A former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan may sue county police officers and a county-employed psychotherapist on a claim that, without being confronted with an emergency situation and without knowing anything about him other than his expression ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a plaintiff who spent nearly a year in jail prior to being acquitted of attempted murder charges based on a woman’s statements that plaintiff attempted to murder her may sue a Westmoreland County assistant ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a race discrimination complaint filed by plaintiff electrical utilities worker, who was fired by defendant school board after he threatened co-workers he suspected of placing screws near his truck to cause a flat tire, ...

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

A Richmond federal judge has refused to throw out allegations of misconduct against a Virginia prosecutor in a civil lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was arrested and jailed for almost a year based on false accusations supported ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Commonwealth's Attorneys Federal Courts Judge Henry E. Hudson Westmoreland County Circuit Court

An auto parts company wins default judgment against its former product development director who was assigned to spearhead business development in China, but who instead formed a new competing company, misappropriated numerous trade secrets and broke into plaintiff company’s facility ...

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

Although a Richmond U.S. District Court overturned two securities fraud convictions after defendant’s prosecution for a scheme to induce investors to support defendant’s company purportedly developing a hyperbaric-chambers treatment for HIV/AIDS, the “spillover” effect of the jury hearing evidence on ...

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

On the magistrate judge’s recommendation, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies dismissal of claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 alleging defendant school superintendent discriminated against plaintiff, an African-American male computer technician and coach, by not renewing his contract ...

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

Although plaintiff, a male Caucasian professor, points to two other Caucasian professors who were denied tenure by defendant Virginia State University, a historically African-American institution, he has not stated a plausible claim of employment discrimination based on race and the ...

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