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

In this diversity case claiming damages for failure to properly design a building foundation, the individual defendant, a principal in the defendant engineering firm, wins judgment on the pleadings because the damages claim is barred by Virginia’s economic loss rule ...

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

In plaintiff’s suit seeking at least $8.6 million as a finder’s fee owed to him following the $600 million acquisition of Trinity Coal Corporation by defendants, an international conglomerate and its related entities, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court ...

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

After a three-day bench trial, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court concludes the Nation of Gods and Earths poses a security threat in state prisons and plaintiff state inmate may not sue  correctional officials under the Religious Land Use ...

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

In plaintiff Plum Creek Timberlands LP’s suit seeking a declaration that it is the lawful owner of certain natural gas interests located in Buchanan County and that a 1930 deed purporting to convey the property was void, the Abingdon U.S. ...

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Plaintiff landowners who claim defendant mining company, in order to get rid of excess wastewater from an underground coal mine, diverted water into the underground voids in another mine it controlled located beneath plaintiffs’ land, have standing and may replead ...

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An African-American employee at a Sprint call center who was terminated for a history of discipline that included counseling for her frequent use of profanity, has not demonstrated that her termination was attributable to racial bias, and the Abingdon U.S. ...

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

In this tax evasion and structuring prosecution, defendants are not entitled to handwritten notes by government agents of interviews of various government witnesses, the Abingdon U.S. District Court says, but defendants may obtain notes of their own interviews by agents. ...

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

A psychiatrist under investigation for unlawful drug distribution waived any attorney-client privilege as to the contents of a Notebook he gave to a grand jury witness who shared it with federal prosecutors, and the government’s trial team did not review ...

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