An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies Hair Club for Men a preliminary injunction to prevent defendants from engaging in any hair replacement business in any capacity within a 20-miles radius of plaintiff’s Tysons Corner Hair Club Center, or otherwise soliciting ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a court battle between compet­ing hair replacement businesses, a federal judge has refused to bar a departed staffer from competing with her former employer while the case plays out. In the case, the judge openly ques­tioned whether claimed “trade ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady

In plaintiff investors’ suit alleging fraud and seeking the return of over $4 million they invested in defendant’s “global invest­ment fund,” the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses defendants’ counterclaim for breach of contract as “so vague that it falls far ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who was hired as defendant’s controller in 2002 and made a corporate officer in 2007, but who was told by letter in December 2012 that his employment would terminate on Nov. 18, 2015, with a possibility of work ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An African-American IT project manag­er for the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor­poration received multiple warnings about poor performance prior to failing to improve during a 90-day Performance Improvement Plan, and employer has demonstrated that his poor job performance, and not race ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A vendor who alleges he and his busi­ness suffered a humiliating ejection from a National Rifle Association gun show when a gun-case vendor appearing in plaintiff vendor’s booth discharged a firearm in violation of gun-show rules, and plaintiff consequently lost ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A bank wins summary judgment in this suit filed by a small-business banker who transferred from California to Virginia and who complained that when she sought a position in Alexandria, she was “racially steered” and told she “would be better ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An African-American woman who alleges she was demoted when she was transferred from the company’s Arlington, Virginia office to Maryland, and that she received $35,000 less than a Caucasian male under 40 years old who performed comparable work, can sue ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District