In a Petersburg company’s suit alleging defendant, its former customer, violated a confidentiality agreement by appropriating plaintiff’s formula for a plant nutrient defendant markets as “Voodoo Juice,” a Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant on plaintiff’s claims ...

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

A Fredericksburg entrepreneur and small businessman was involved in a criminal tax case in federal court. The IRS and the Department of Justice charged the businessman with willfully filing false tax returns for the years 2006-2009 by understating his Schedule ...

Tagged with: Criminal Federal Courts Judge John A. Gibney Jr.

A military reservist ordered to active duty who lost the hardware store she and her husband had purchased, cannot collect money damages under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act for a bank’s foreclosure on their business loan and sale of corporate ...

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

A law firm attempting to collect credit-card debt can invoke the mandatory arbitration clause in debtors’ credit-card agreements, and a Richmond U.S. District Court orders arbitration of this class-action lawsuit against the law firm under the Fair Debt Collection Practices ...

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

In this patent infringement case involving a dog breed test kit, a Richmond U.S. District Court says defendant’s purchase of the company that manufactured the kits, advertised them online and sold them in Virginia, confers personal jurisdiction on defendant company ...

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

Even if defendant Simmons National Bank’s Loan Purchase Agreement of 2001 may have lacked mutuality of obligation at the outset, the parties performed under the Agreement for the next 10 years and the Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant loan ...

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

The Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses an action by a church challenging the denial of its request for a special use permit to lease its space to the for-profit operator of a private day school for children with disabilities; the ...

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

The former utilities director terminated by the town of Blackstone cannot sue the town for violation of his First Amendment rights, based on years of internal communications about town business between plaintiff and his supervisor, the town manager, complaining about ...

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

In this dispute between plaintiff gas transmission company and defendant property owners over the scope of an easement over defendants’ land, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff partial summary judgment on defendants’ claim that the suit is barred by ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a store manager who faced progressive discipline for multiple instances of failing to follow company policy requiring him to make at least one daily bank deposit before 2:00 p.m. cannot overcome the employer’s defense ...

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