A factory fabric cutter who alleged the married owner of the business made repeated sexual advances toward her and fired her after she complained about his inappropriate behavior has stated a Bowman claim for wrongful discharge based on Virginia’s public ...

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A woman can use Virginia’s statutes on adultery and aiding and abetting criminal activity to support a wrongful discharge claim against a married man, a federal judge in Newport News has ruled. She used the public policy against adultery, which ...

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A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion for default judgment in its suit alleging defendant breached two service contracts to ship cargo on plaintiff’s vessels by failing to pay $101,765 in outstanding costs resulting from freight charges, detention and ...

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

A hearing-impaired physician assistant wins the right to sue the Navy and the Navy contractor who hired her under the joint employer doctrine for an alleged failure to accommodate her hearing impairment under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ...

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

In plaintiff’s suit alleging infringement of plaintiff’s patented method of creating electronic maps of utility line in Virginia, a Norfolk U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge orders plaintiff to pay defendant $42,464 in attorney’s fees and costs incurred by defendant to ...

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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court overrules defendants’ objections to its order granting plaintiff’s motion for execution sale and setting forth a proposed procedure for conducting a judicial sale of the property, modified to account for defendants’ objections to a sale ...

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A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies plaintiff summary judgment due to plaintiff’s “blatant violation” of Local Rule 56(B) by submission of a statement of undisputed facts devoid of any facts upon which it relies in its summary judgment motion, and ...

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

The 4th Circuit upholds two defendants’ convictions arising from their roles in an enterprise engaged in interstate prostitution, except that the court vacates one defendant’s conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for use of a firearm in relation to a ...

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

In plaintiff Global Touch Solutions LLC’s patent infringement suits against Toshiba, Vizio, Apple, Motorola and Microsoft, a Norfolk U.S. District Court says each defendant has demonstrated that at the time each suit was filed, the U.S. District Court for the ...

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Although defendant FedEx asserts that plaintiff driver was an independent contractor, not an employee, the Norfolk U.S. District Court says plaintiff has stated a plausible claim for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act by alleging 14-hour workdays, as ...

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