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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Albert Diaz Judge Liam O'Grady Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

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