A Danville U.S. District Court grants a new trial, setting aside a $3.17 million jury award to a construction company on its claim against the Danville Redevelopment and Housing Authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...

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A funeral home employee who alleges she was required to volunteer her time in community service to generate business for her employer, to respond to calls after hours and to work through or be interrupted during their scheduled meal breaks, ...

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An African-American hair stylist at a Danville salon does not have a prima facie claim for disparate treatment under Title VII with her bare assertion that the white stylist with whom she had a physical altercation on the job was ...

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A photographer for Trader Publishing who regularly worked at defendant Danville Toyota, taking and posting online photos of defendant’s cars for sale, can sue the car dealership for her injuries from allegedly stepping into a grass-covered drainpipe hole; a Danville ...

Tagged with: Judge Jackson L. Kiser Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

A jury in federal court in Danville awarded $3.17 million in damages to a construction company on a Title VI claim against the Danville Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The authority said it removed Carnell Construction Company from a project because ...

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In a suit in which the Danville U.S. District Court already granted summary judgment to plaintiff lender on the issue of liability, the court enters judgment for $400,043.94, plus per diem interest of $51.67 and awards attorney’s fees of $22,100.26, ...

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The plaintiff Virginia Brands is a cigarette manufacturer and produced cigarettes for the defendant Kingston Tobacco under a contract in which Kingston Tobacco agreed to pay for the cigarettes and associated regulatory charges incurred by Virginia Brands. After Kingston Tobacco’s ...

Tagged with: Contract Federal Courts Judge Jackson L. Kiser Million-Dollar Verdicts

A Danville U.S. District Court awards $5.25 million to a Virginia cigarette company against a North Carolina company on the Virginia company’s contract to distribute “Kingston” brand cigarettes manufactured by the Virginia company. The manufacturing stipulated in the contract implicates ...

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A creditor on a promissory note is not obliged to sue the guarantor on the note first, and a Danville U.S. District Court enters judgment for plaintiff creditor, as defendant maker of the note admits he is in default and ...

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A Danville U.S. District Court reverses a bankruptcy court’s denial of debtor’s motion to avoid a judgment lien of Beneficial and Beneficial Discount Company on debtors’ Danville real estate, as Beneficial “silently stood by without so much as a scintilla ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District