A Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff insurance carrier permission to deposit interpleader funds with the court in this contest between decedent’s son and her grandchildren over death benefits of an annuity policy purchased by decedent; the court also grants ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court declines to transfer this putative class action filed by a REIT investor to a federal court in New York; plaintiff, a New York resident, chose to file suit here and the pertinent factors counsel against ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a suit filed by an investor in a real estate investment trust alleging breach of fiduciary duties and negligence by boards of directors of the two REITs and their advisory entities, asserting the directors ...

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Plaintiffs’ loan agreements with an online lender on a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation stating arbitration is to be conducted by an authorized representative of the CRST can be enforced against plaintiffs by the third-party debt collector on the loans; ...

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A plaintiff who alleges his mortgage lender instructed him to skip two payments in order to apply for the Home Affordable Modification Program and then initiated foreclosure proceedings against him cannot amend his complaint to allege violations of the Fair ...

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In this litigation arising from the merger of three Virginia REITs into a single corporation, plaintiff shareholder of the corporation into which the other two was merged has stated derivative claims against defendant directors for breach of the duty of ...

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Plaintiff filed a class action suit alleging defendant Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona LLC failed to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681, et seq., including the disclosure procedures set forth in § 1681b when it ...

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A quadriplegic resident of a nursing home has stated a medical malpractice claim by alleging she was identified upon admission as a fall risk but defendant nursing home failed to have adequate staff or an adequate plan in place to ...

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The former CEO of a construction company who now lives in Maryland, and who is suing the Alaskan company that bought his shares and terminated him after three years, may not sue the company on their employment contract in Virginia ...

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In plaintiff’s class action suit alleging defendant Experian Information Solutions violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to disclose the true source of information for their credit reports, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to plaintiff on ...

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