A tenant’s suit alleging injury from significant mold levels in her apartment is remanded from Richmond U.S. District Court to Virginia state court; defendants failed to show fraudulent joinder of the apartment complex manager, as plaintiff alleged she relied on ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies a preliminary injunction to plaintiff Kroger Company to stop defendant Lidl, a supermarket chain based in Germany, from using its “Preferred Selection” mark for its store brand of products, which Kroger says can be ...

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

An administrator for the estate of a pretrial detainee who died at Richmond City Justice Center after medical staff allegedly placed him on an opiate, rather than a benzodiazepine, withdrawal regimen, states plausible claims for negligence and deliberate indifference by ...

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

A Richmond fed­eral judge has unsealed specif­ics of legal mal­practice claims leveled against Richmond-based law firm of LeClairRyan PC in connection with the federal prosecution and bankruptcy of Health Di­agnostic Laboratory Inc. Approving LeClairRyan’s $20.375 million settlement of those claims, ...

Tagged with: Health Diagnostic Laboratory Judge John A. Gibney Jr. LeClairRyan Legal Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A video production company’s editing of a broadcaster’s interview with members of a gun rights advocacy group to present an eight-second silence before the interview subject responded to a question about keeping terrorists from getting guns without background checks was ...

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

A VCU professor who specialized in pediatric infectious disease has not shown that his termination for failure to comply with VCU’s Investigational New Drug/Investigational Device Exemption Policy was a pretext for age discrimination, and he loses his suit on summary ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court says Dominion Virginia Power has violated the Clean Water Act by storing ash from burnt coal in piles and lagoons on its Chesapeake Energy Center site, allowing arsenic to leach into groundwater and surrounding surface ...

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

A defendant who provides consumer reports for employment purposes wins summary judgment in this class action suit alleging defendant violated Section 1681k of the Fair Credit Reporting Act with its “PEER Letter” notices informing affected consumers about the public record ...

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

A public school academic coach can sue defendant school officials for defamation and harm to her reputation for discontinuing her involvement in Standards of Learning testing after reporting an “inconclusive” result of an investigation into SOL testing irregularities; however, the ...

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

A school employee who took medical leave and leave to care for her husband, and who was not excused for all the leave she took, has not shown that her absence from work for over two months was a pretext ...

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