A plaintiff who served as Installation Supervisor for the Installation Department of defendant’s heating and air conditioning business qualifies under Department of Labor regulations as an executive employee exempt from overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, says ...

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

In this litigation arising out of the dissolution of intellectual property law firm Jacobson Holman PLLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants plaintiff firm member’s motion to dismiss the firm’s counterclaims against two other firm members for payments into firm ...

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

In light of a new Virginia Supreme Court case interpreting tortious interference law, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says a maritime security company can amend its complaint alleging tortious interference against a maritime lawyer who allegedly defamed the company in ...

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

Defendant airline wins summary judgment in plaintiff reservation representative’s suit alleging he was fired after 24 years with the company in retaliation for taking Family and Medical Leave Act leave when he suffered a panic attack; the Alexandria U.S. District ...

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

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

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A Virginia law firm may not sue the Supreme Court of Virginia for refusing to review a Fairfax Circuit Court’s dismissal of the firm’s lawsuit against a former employee and the employee’s wife; the Alexandria U.S. District Court has no ...

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

In a hearing-impaired plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit against a bank that discharged her during her probationary period as a bank teller, an Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to award costs against the plaintiff who lost her case on summary judgment. ...

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

A plaintiff business engaged as a manufacturer’s representative in the office furniture industry made no effort to keep its client list, fee rates and other allegedly proprietary information secret, other than reference to an “unspoken ethical standard,” and the Alexandria ...

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

Police who entered plaintiff’s bedroom and seized his personal computer acted with apparent authority when a woman who said she was his roommate allowed them to enter and showed them defendant’s computer search history with suspected child pornography; plaintiff’s testimony ...

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

A plaintiff’s suit alleging his former employer, a government contractor, defamed him by stating during a contract bid that plaintiff was not an employee of a competing contractor, is barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel; the Alexandria U.S. District ...

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