A defendant prosecuted for immigration fraud for allegedly swearing that he had a sponsored job with a limousine business, when he had only worked in the U.S. since 1990 for the government of Saudi Arabia, cannot obtain additional information about ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A government contractor for translation services to the U.S. Army, sued by plaintiff linguists who worked for the contractor in Kuwait, cannot avoid application of Virginia law under modern choice-of-law provisions, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss ...

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Plaintiff, an Asian male of Vietnamese descent, who was terminated from his job as a part-time letter carrier after he failed to comply with demands that he stopped sending unwanted messages to a female coworker, loses his Title VII suit ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A defendant who settled plaintiff carrier’s suit to recover disability benefits paid to defendant on a claim that he failed to disclose his multiple sclerosis symptoms at the time he sought disability coverage cannot overturn the Alexandria U.S. District Court’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a woman’s suit for injuries from falling down the stairs at the Franconia-Springfield Metro Station, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion to exclude from defendant WMATA’s witness list individuals not identified within the discovery deadlines; disclosure of ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses this suit against a parent corporation headquartered in Virginia and its Cameroonian subsidiary alleging liability under the Alien Tort Statute and Virginia common law for injuries stemming from alleged power failures in Cameroon. Plaintiffs ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The National Organization for Marriage, a tax-exempt group that promotes heterosexual marriage may sue the IRS for compensatory damages from an employee’s unintentional disclosure of the group’s donor list, to include legal fees NOM paid to investigate the disclosure, the ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Taxation U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A confidential list of donors leaked by the IRS may have been a fund-raising bonanza for the National Organization for Marriage Inc., once the list showed up on the Huffington Post. The Internal Revenue Service is trying to turn that ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge James C. Cacheris Taxation

In this False Claims Act suit, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the first-to-file bar prohibits later-filed FCA actions while a related case awaits a decision on a grant of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court; the court grants defendant ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In an employee’s suit for long-term disability benefits under an ERISA plan, defendant carrier/claims administrator must respond to an interrogatory asking it to identify the number of cases in which MES Peer Review Services found a claimant suffering from restrictions ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District