Where there was a one year gap between a store manager’s alleged protected activity and his termination, a few instances of the silent treatment and a single reprimand were insufficient to show his termination was causally connected to his protected ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where incarcerated persons at two Virginia maximum security prisons alleged that solitary confinement deprived them of a basic human need, and that the risk of prolonged detention was obvious from the medical and scientific literature and a prior Fourth Circuit ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a former public service employee’s discrimination claim did not expressly allege “quid pro quo” harassment, but it did allege that her supervisor demanded she endure his harassment in exchange for continued employment, and reassigned her because she refused, those ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a man directed by his probation officer to perform community service at a landfill was stuck and injured by a vehicle, he plausibly alleged the landfill’s owner breached a duty to provide training, warnings, supervision or signage, and that ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the police saw a man placing a firearm in the trunk of his car, that act alone did not provide a reasonable basis for the stop because possession of the firearm was not unlawful and there was nothing suspicious ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where there were no factual allegations showing a company’s use of the trademark “REJUVenate” for disinfectants caused past lost sales, future lost sales or harm to reputation to another company that uses the trademark “Rejuvenate” for cleaning products, the false ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Despite a missed service deadline, an Abingdon federal judge allowed an employment discrimination lawsuit to go forward while noting concern that the same lawyer had allowed the service deadline to pass in a similar action only a few months before. ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A defendant convicted of distributing oxycodone and cocaine and possession of firearms who received three 300-month sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), had his total 1,020-month sentence reduced to 300 months because the stacking of the 924(c) 25-year sentences, and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Testimony from the defendant’s former roommate, and well as evidence from coconspirators, supported the conclusion in the presentence report that the defendant’s methamphetamine-related conduct involved more than 4.5 kilograms of Ice methamphetamine. Background James Skyler Sebastian pleaded guilty without a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm failed to show how he was prejudiced from the court’s failure to communicate the knowledge requirement for the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) charges, his habeas ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District