An insurance carrier that provided Indemnity & Liability coverage to Protection Strategies Inc., a global security management and consulting company and government contractor, can recoup its defense costs incurred during the government’s fraud investigation of the company after company officers ...

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

Although supermarket video surveillance footage shows plaintiff stepped over a black hose as he entered the store, he exited in a slightly different direction and the view was obscured as he exited the store until after he fell, and the ...

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

In this suit alleging defendant Handi-Foil has infringed registered trademarks for Reynolds’ Wrap and engaged in false advertising, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to plaintiff Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. on its “tacking” defense to Handi-Foil’s claim that ...

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

Plaintiff, a training school for massage therapists, wins $429,016 in damages against defendant, an accrediting body, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court orders defendant to vacate its revocation of plaintiff’s accreditation and grant it continued accreditation until the next normal ...

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

Two survey firms in Alexandria went to court in a contest over a bankrupt firm’s assets, including telephone numbers and web addresses, in a new case that uses Virginia state law to fill a local gap in bankruptcy law. The ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Federal Courts Judge Liam O'Grady

A technology services company did not violate the Family and Medical Leave Act by requiring plaintiff IT consultant to work her reduced 20-hour schedule as a block of five mornings a week from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., instead of ...

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

The Patent and Trademark Office wins summary judgment in plaintiff’s suit alleging the PTO improperly calculated the patent term adjustment for the ‘374 patent, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the PTO’s construction of 35 U.S.C. § 154(b)(2)(C) is ...

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

The Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to the Federal Trade Commission in this FOIA suit filed by a law firm seeking information about the FTC’s interactions with representatives of the alcoholic beverage industry, on behalf of a firm ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court vacates an arbitrator’s award reinstating plaintiff utility company’s terminated employee, as the arbitrator acted beyond his discretion under a union contract when he interpreted the contract to reject the company’s efforts to strike him from ...

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

A county school board wins summary judgment in this disability discrimination suit filed by an instructional aide whose shoulder injury allegedly prevented her from performing a job requirement that she be able to physically restrain autistic students in the classroom, ...

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