After a two-week jury trial in which plaintiff music publisher won $25 million in damages against Cox Communications for contributory copyright infringement, the Alexandria U.S. District Court awards plaintiff $8,383,368 in attorney’s fees, after excluding nontaxable expenses and applying a ...

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

An employer lost its opening bid to stop a former manager from working for an alleged competitor in a multi-state home-building business, when an Alexandria federal court denied the employer’s motion for a preliminary injunction on Feb. 14. In arguing ...

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

On remand of a 4th Circuit’s affirmance of this court’s decision that a tenant breached a 1991 lease by failing to meet extended construction deadlines for a Zoroastrian worship center in Vienna, Virginia, the Alexandria U.S. District Court rejects defendants’ ...

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

A 68-year-old woman who was told in July 2013 that she would not be selected for a position in her employer’s restructured division waited too late to sue for discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges he had an agreement with defendants to invest in a business offering pedal-powered tours of bars in cities and towns has failed to state fraud or breach of contract claims against defendant business partners; although plaintiff ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court imposes a constructive trust against a woman’s niece and former attor­ney-in-fact who allegedly used $573,729 of the woman’s personal funds to pay for home improvements and personal ex­penses; plaintiffs, the woman’s current attorneys-in- fact, have ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies a preliminary injunction to plaintiff credit union, who alleges de­fendants have conspired to establish a new business to compete with the credit union’s previously acquired divi­sion to promote government loans, pur­chased from several of ...

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

A police officer who responded to a dispatch call that plaintiff’s boyfriend reported that she was taking increased medication for anxiety and had left his car to walk three miles to her home, and who found plaintiff crying, slurring and ...

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

In the wake of a jury verdict against defendant, a former employee of plain­tiff Hair Club for Men who left to start a competing business, on plaintiff’s claims for breach of contract, trade secret misap­propriation, breach of fiduciary duty and ...

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

A woman who was shot in the leg in a club parking lot by a man who had been escorted from the bar by security after he became hostile when told to dispose of his alcoholic drink after 2:00 a.m., ...

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