A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses this suit by a male African-American hospital pharmacist who claims he was not afforded progressive discipline for alleged work errors prior to his termination, in contrast to Caucasian employees who received suspensions prior to ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court adopts a magistrate judge’s recommendation and denies dismissal of plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by falsely reporting a balance on her home mortgage loan, which plaintiff asserts had been paid ...

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

In this case arising out of purported internet communications and third-party conversations by defendants between over an 11-month period that allegedly defamed plaintiff, the Richmond U.S. District Court says it can only exercise personal jurisdiction over defendants concerning plaintiff’s claim ...

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

A service member who alleges his landlord in Washington State continued to charge rents after he terminated his lease upon his transfer to Fort Eustis in Virginia, and involved a collection agency to collect unpaid rent, has his suit charging ...

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

A bank employee cannot sue the bank for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on allegations that she was constructively discharged after seven years for posting on her private social media account a photo from behind of a male pedestrian ...

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

A Department of Defense employee who received an accommodation of working a shorter work week with unpaid leave on orders of her neurologist for an injury suffered in a vehicular accident, failed to exhaust her current claim under the Rehabilitation ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiffs’ two class claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act alleging defendant “sham business” obtained millions of computer reports on plaintiff consumers, without their permission, to target them for high-interest loans; plaintiffs have standing ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court says plaintiff contractor, in fulfilling up to 19 separate purchase orders for renovation work on defendant’s plant in South Carolina and submitting invoices for its work, is bound by an arbitration clause included as part ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s claim alleging defendants improperly provided and/or used a credit reporting agency’s “consumer report” against her in an adoption-related proceeding, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Plaintiff’s amended complaint alleges violations of ...

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

A plaintiff who claims defendants borrowed heavily from his 2008 book for the first season of their Fox television series Empire cannot sue defendant creators and producers of the series for copyright infringement, as his allegation that a Virginia lawyer ...

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