Although defendant employer says its former chief legal counsel’s Bowman claim based on successive salary reductions and failure to pay a severance package is barred because executives are not protected by the Virginia Wage and Payment Act, a Richmond U.S. ...

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

On recommendation of the magistrate judge, a Richmond U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss plaintiff mortgage company’s suit for specific performance to require defendant to repurchase four loans plaintiff bought during the past seven years that allegedly were subject to ...

Tagged with: Judge M. Hannah Lauck Judge Robert E. Payne Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this products liability suit arising from death of the mother of the owner of a GM Envoy Denali in a rollover crash after the vehicle was rear-ended, a Richmond U.S. District Court accepts the magistrate judge’s report and denies ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge M. Hannah Lauck Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff sports production company that had a license agreement to show on closed-circuit television a professional boxing championship match may sue defendant restaurant for allegedly intercepting the broadcast and allowing its patrons to see the match; the magistrate judge for ...

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

Plaintiffs who lost their homes to foreclosure have not stated claims for a trustee’s breach of an alleged duty of impartiality, but the Richmond U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge will allow plaintiffs to amend their claims for breach of fiduciary ...

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

A post-conviction prisoner sought damages under 42 U.S.C. Sec.1983 for excessive force. Prisoner claimed that after being yanked from his bunk, and after being handcuffed, defendant jail deputies repeated struck him in the head in a malicious and intentional violation ...

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A former state employee who alleges she was harassed and subjected to adverse employment actions when she could not repay a $400 loan from her supervisor, and that she was discriminated against due to her pregnancy, cannot state a claim ...

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

As snow had fallen during the two mid-December days before plaintiff went to the post office to mail her Christmas cards, the postmaster had the lot plowed twice, including less than two hours before plaintiff’s arrival, and had repeatedly spread ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court magistrate judge grants summary judgment to plaintiff mortgage company against defendant broker on a claim defendant broker breached a provision of the parties’ Mortgage Broker Agreement that required defendant to indemnify plaintiff. SunTrust alleges it ...

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

In this contract litigation between a mortgage company and defendant loan broker, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants defendant, who says it is “out-of-state, defunct and assetless,” extra time to respond to discovery requests, but no extra time to object ...

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