A woman who claims defendant Sears Auto Center damaged her transmission by draining the differential fluid and driving the vehicle without any fluid, may sue Sears Auto Center and Subaru under an extended warranty it sold her, but the Abingdon ...

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A plaintiff’s personal injury complaint alleging negligence per se when defendant’s tractor-trailer truck allegedly struck plaintiff’s vehicle during a sudden lane change on Interstate 81, survives defendant’s motion to dismiss; the Abingdon U.S. District Court also refuses to dismiss plaintiff’s ...

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

A 32-year-old defendant who persuaded an 18-year-old girl with whom he had a prison correspondence to smuggle quarter-sized bags of heroin and transfer them to him through good-by kisses after a prison visit is convicted of possession with intent to ...

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A plaintiff’s suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arising out of his sexual assault by a cellmate while incarcerated at Bristol City Jail will go forward as defendant city has failed to show plaintiff did not exhaust his administrative remedies. ...

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A former Cedar Bluff town employee who was fired after objecting to the town’s alleged mishandling of withheld earnings may have a wrongful discharge claim under Virginia law, a federal judge has ruled. The decision by U.S. District Judge James ...

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An assistant town clerk who alleges she was fired after her husband appeared on her behalf before the town council to ask for an explanation as to defendant town manager’s alleged acknowledgement that moneys deducted from the clerk’s paycheck were ...

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In this dispute over defendant drilling company’s demand for $14 million for drilling rig standby charges under a contract and addendum, the Abingdon U.S. District Court says there is a latent ambiguity in the terms of the addendum, and denies ...

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

In plaintiff A&G Coal Corporation’s contract action claiming defendant Elkem Materials Inc. failed to take the entire quantity of coal it had agreed to purchase, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court will not dismiss defendant’s counterclaim alleging damages from ...

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Pro se plaintiffs may not sue defendant automobile dealership for fraud based on a denial of credit to purchase a vehicle of their choice, despite the dealership’s television commercial advertising a goal of “100 % financing”; the Abingdon U.S. District ...

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Plaintiff owners of land in Buchanan County, including natural gas reserves and coal bed methane, may amend their complaint against defendant mining company for alleged damage to plaintiffs’ property by causing polluted water to be “secretly placed” in underground mine ...

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