In this bankruptcy case filed by the Free Lance-Star Publishing Company, the Richmond U.S. District Court denies plaintiff acquisition company’s motion for review of issues including the bankruptcy court’s limits on plaintiff’s credit bid in advance of the auction of ...

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Plaintiff, a Virginia aviation company, cannot sue defendant airplane seller, a New York company, on tort and contract claims in Virginia federal court for allegedly agreeing to sell its Citation II airplane on eBay for $125,100, then refusing to complete ...

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

A proposed plaintiff class of mechanics paid under a “flat rate” compensation scheme are on a commission plan that is exempt from overtime pay requirements under § 207(i) of the Fair Labor Standards Act; federal courts are split over this ...

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Plaintiff, an African-American male hired in 2009 as deputy county administrator, may sue the county, a member of the board of supervisors and the county administrator for an alleged racially-based, concerted campaign to remove plaintiff and other African-American senior county ...

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A plaintiff’s bare-bones products liability complaint alleging injuries caused by a defective folding cane states a claim for breach of an express warranty under Virginia law, but the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s claims for negligent design, failure to ...

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A state employee notified he would be laid off from the Department of Conservation and Recreation in 2009, and who resolved his state grievances in a Settlement Agreement that stated it was “the complete understanding and agreement of the parties” ...

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A county mental health evaluator who responded to a request from law enforcement to evaluate plaintiff, a former Marine, for online threats of violence, and who petitioned for an order for plaintiff’s temporary detention, wins summary judgment in Richmond U.S. ...

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The Richmond U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s request to file a second amended complaint alleging his unlawful seizure and detention “upon the pretext that he was mentally unstable” and as “the result of animus against him because of his speech ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court says a Colonial Beach police officer has qualified immunity from a civil rights suit filed by a law graduate who alleges the officer conspired with a local prosecutor to charge plaintiff with attempted murder of ...

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A law school graduate’s civil rights claims against a prosecutor and a police officer arising from an attempted murder charge have foundered in federal court. The former law student, Peter S. Willis of Fredericksburg, spent a year in jail before ...

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