A Virginia Beach military support contractor wins a preliminary injunction against its former regional account manager for Hawaii and Korea, for his alleged violation of a nonsolicitation clause in his Employment Agreement that covers his continued contacts with the U.S. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Applying Greek law, the Norfolk U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to plaintiff, who is seeking a maritime lien for unpaid fuel services. Tramp Maritime Enterprises Ltd., located in Greece, chartered the M/V Hebei Shijiazhuang, registered in Hong Kong, from ...

Tagged with: Admiralty Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit alleging a former employee illegally used plaintiff’s trademark through a website and converted plaintiff’s software product in breach of their employment contract, the Norfolk U.S. District Court says the pro se defendant has stated a counterclaim for ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit alleging defendant breached a contract governing defendant’s removal of “equipment and assets” from a building owned by plaintiffs, plaintiffs have violated the Newport News U.S. District Court’s Local Rules and offered only conclusory asserts to support its ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants the government’s motion to strike a “Reservation of Rights” clause in an answer filed by a defendant to this action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in which defendant purports to reserve the ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this litigation over a patent for a “self-propelled figure” used to give water toys a life-like motion, the Norfolk U.S. District Court issues its claim constructions after the court’s Markman hearing. The court construes the disputed terms as follows: ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A company that sells medical equipment may sue a competitor that hired two of plaintiff’s former employees for tortious interference with contract and statutory business conspiracy; the Supreme Court of Virginia’s recent opinion in Dunlap v. Cottman Transmission Systems LLC ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit for breach of a contract to buy commercial real estate for construction of a restaurant, the Norfolk U.S. District Court denies each side’s motion for summary judgment as there remain many material factual disputes over each side’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Investors in a bank that collapsed have sufficiently pleaded “control person” liability claims against defendant bank executives and director defendants, based on allegations of conduct such as defendants signing at least two financial statements that were purportedly fraudulent; the Norfolk ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Securities U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses this race, age and gender bias suit filed by a 66-year-old male African-American associate professor of mathematics against Norfolk State University, with leave to amend. Plaintiff’s age bias claim is dismissed without prejudice. The ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District