Defendant Social Security Administration has demonstrated that plaintiff analyst’s consistent inability to reach an agency-mandated level of productivity prompted her dismissal, and not any bias toward plaintiff for filing a 2005 EEO charge; the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary ...

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A law firm cannot enforce a forfeiture provision in its operating agreement that requires a departing partner to forfeit 50 percent of his equity interest if he takes clients with him; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the forfeiture provision ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court will consider plaintiff’s late-filed opposition in her suit alleging she was wrongfully discharged by defendant hotel after she was assaulted by a coworker, but the court grants summary judgment to defendant hotel. The court will ...

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In this suit by plaintiff company, a technology consulting business, against co-owners who allegedly formed a competing business and appropriated logos and content from plaintiff’s website, the Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s Lanham Act claim ...

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In the wake of a judicial panel’s decision that Virginia’s Third Congressional District reflects an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and the Virginia General Assembly’s decision not to devise a remedial redistricting plan, the court directs defendants to implement a redistricting plan ...

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The “Institute for Justice” wins a preliminary injunction from the Alexandria U.S. District Court against defendant “Independent Journal Review’s” use of an “IJ” logo in this trademark infringement case. Plaintiff Institute for Justice is a not-for-profit, non-partisan public interest law ...

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A law firm partnership agreement that requires a departing firm member to forfeit 50 percent of his Accrual Basis Account if he takes firm clients with him upon departure may be a violation of D.C. Rule of Professional Conduct 5.6; ...

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A law firm cannot enforce a 50-percent penalty clause in its payout contract for departing attorneys who take firm clients with them, an Alexandria federal judge has ruled. The Nov. 6 ruling could be worth as much as $150,000 to ...

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Plaintiff operators of a maritime security business who had a fee dispute with a lawyer hired to assist with crisis management when one of their crews was detained in India have stated claims for defamation against their former lawyer who ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court says a white female teacher hired to work at a Department of Defense School in Incirlik, Turkey, may try her Title VII retaliation and discrimination claims based on the manner in which the school’s African-American ...

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