In a case involving the alleged denial of medical treatment, the court denied the regional jail authority’s request to certify to the Virginia Supreme Court whether it is a municipal corporation entitled to sovereign immunity. The question was not dispositive ...

Tagged with: Judge M. Hannah Lauck Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Efforts by pharmaceutical defendants to quickly dispose of a suit alleging they didn’t use commercially reasonable efforts to market and sell a prescription drug failed because the complaint plausibly alleged they were liable under a successor liability theory and breached ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a transgender plaintiff alleged that one DMV employee specifically adopted a dress code policy that was directed at her, and that a second employee forced her to resign shortly after she “begin presenting” as a female, those allegations  were ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An employee’s interview performance for one position and her lack of qualifications for a second were the reasons she was not promoted to either of the two positions, rather than her age or race. Background This employment discrimination matter arises ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A school board, supervisors and a football coach have been sued after an incident in which middle school football players allegedly battered and assaulted Black teammates in the locker room, videotaped the incident and posted it on social media. The ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a water treatment service provider had knowledge prior to obtaining the policy that claims had been threatened after an explosion at a facility where it provided services, the insurer has no duty to defend the underlying suit filed after ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a similar case had just concluded in the Central District of California, a majority of factors under 28 U.S.C. § 1404, including the plaintiff’s choice of forum and interests of justice, did not favor transfer to that court, in ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the government’s complaint identified the mental health provider’s fraudulent conduct, claimed the provider acted with deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of that conduct, plausibly alleged the government would not have paid the false invoices and provided examples of false ...

Tagged with: Commercial Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Uninsured motorist coverage did not apply to injuries suffered by the plaintiff as a result of a physical fight with a customer at a gas station. The other combatant was neither the owner nor the operator of an uninsured motor ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A critically injured Virginia truck driver is not covered by his employer’s uninsured motorist policy, even though the 2015 assault that put him in the hospital arose from a dispute over the way he was fueling his truck. The injured ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck Motor vehicles Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Eastern District