A pro se plaintiff who defaulted on her mortgage payments cannot forestall foreclosure on her home with allegations that defendants have engaged in unfair and deceptive lending practices in violation of the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A credit reporting agency may face a trial on a claim for “willful” violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act because it did not come clean on sources of information for a plaintiff’s damaging credit report. Michael Dreher learned about ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Federal Courts Judge John A. Gibney Jr.

A Social Security claimant had no credible reasons for missing the extended deadline to file his civil suit challenging a denial of benefits, and the Richmond U.S. District Court denies his request for relief. The court’s ultimate decision has nothing ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Kroger’s customer who alleges she was injured when a security guard tried to apprehend a suspected shoplifter who shoved plaintiff into a metal sign may have a claim against the security guard, and because the security guard and plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant credit reporting agency cannot escape liability for a “willful,” or “objectively unreasonable” violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act for its failure to identify one of three sources of information for its erroneous reporting of a debt that affected ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

(AP) Virginia’s law prohibiting out-of-state residents from circulating petitions for third-party presidential candidates is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled May 29. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Elections Federal Courts Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Judge Robert B. King

Plaintiff lender wins summary judgment against defendant guarantors on loans to develop a retail site in the Richmond area; once the borrower defaulted on its loan payments, it owed plaintiff the remainder of the rent payments after paying property-related expenses, ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Applying Florida law, a Richmond U.S. District Court says plaintiff lenders are entitled to summary judgment finding defendant developers of retail stores liable for conversion of rent payments the lenders were entitled to collect, but the case will go to ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although plaintiff delayed disclosing to a bankruptcy judge that he had filed an EEOC charge against his employer, the Richmond U.S. District Court denies employer’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s Title VII suit based on employer’s arguments that only the bankruptcy ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies a writ of habeas corpus in this capital murder case in which defendant was convicted on four counts of capital murder and related felony charges in the murder of a woman, her two daughters ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District