A defendant cannot suppress evidence of the $145,850 in U.S. currency discovered in his luggage when security screening at Dulles Airport disclosed “unknown masses” in his suitcase, an Alexandria U.S. District Court holds. Bound in large bundles by rubber bands, ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A private security guard cannot sue a Pentagon police officer under the Federal Tort Claims Act for an alleged assault after their workplace dispute over the right ammunition for an assault rifle, as an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Liam O'Grady Tort

Plaintiffs who admit they stopped paying the refinanced mortgage on their home cannot avoid foreclosure with their challenge to the “splitting, selling, trading and insuring” of parts of the Note on the secondary market, or claim that defendant mortgagor or ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a Bangladeshi citizen’s appeal arising from denial of his temporary resident application. Appellant applied to change his legal status pursuant to the amnesty program established by the Immigration ...

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

Given the transitory nature of plaintiff’s injuries – on the job and in an automobile accident – as well as the types of restrictions placed on her during a period of temporary disability, plaintiff, a fabric worker for the military, ...

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

The only female employee of a Northern Virginia remodeling firm has won a discrimination suit against her employer for denying her health insurance coverage after calling her a “breeder.” Sandra Porter, a single mother, worked as general manager for the ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Insurance Judge Liam O'Grady

Where a homeowner refinanced his property through two loans from SunTrust, with a title insurance policy from First Alliance Title, underwritten by First American Title Insurance, but First Alliance’s president diverted funds SunTrust designated to pay off the original mortgage, ...

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

In this ongoing dispute between a developer and a contractor in this $92 million condominium project in Arlington, an Alexandria U.S. District Court awards $8,769,000 in liquidated damages and $2,964,002 in direct damages to plaintiff Comstock Potomac Yard LC against ...

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

A plaintiff states a claim against a deputy for liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for arresting plaintiff for a misdemeanor not committed in the officer’s presence, allegedly in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and a state law claim of ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiffs’ claim alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and other state law claims against defendant creditor, the substitute trustee and the mortgage servicer, in an effort to challenge defendants’ authority to ...

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