A Roanoke U.S. District Court says two counts of defendant coal company’s contract action against Norfolk Southern Railway are barred by the parties’ 2009 settlement of their earlier contract dis­pute; the remaining counts in the coal company’s suit are not ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

It’s often the first sign that a busi­ness could be facing legal trouble. The worrisome news arrives with a vis­it by a U.S. Marshal or government inves­tigator. It’s a Civil Investigative Demand – a request for the company to turn ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Michael F. Urbanski Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District U.S. District Court - Western District

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court defers action on the government’s motion to enforce a Civil Investiga­tive Demand against Beam Brothers Trucking Inc. seeking documents re­lated to an ongoing civil investigation into whether Beam submitted false claims to the U.S. Postal ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

In the wake of plaintiff’s deposition of a state trooper who investigated plaintiff’s accident and testified that defendant was the driver of the tractor trailer that backed up and pinned plaintiff between his pickup truck and the tractor trailer, the ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

In the post-judgment phase of this lit­igation arising out of the unauthorized distribution of DIRECTV satellite pro­gramming to viewers at Massanutten Resort that resulted in a judgment of $2,393,000 against defendants Randy Coley and East Coast Cablevision LLC, a Harrisonburg ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

In a federal employee’s suit alleging a coworker defamed him by reporting to her supervisor that plaintiff “always carries a gun in the workplace,” the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court ac­cepts a magistrate judge’s recommenda­tion and says the U.S. can be ...

Tagged with: Judge Joel Hoppe Judge Michael F. Urbanski Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff’s allegation that defendant coworker at the Radford Army Ammu­nition Plant sexually assaulted her on employer’s premises cannot support her respondeat superior claim against em­ployer; there is no allegation that the defendant employee was performing em­ployment duties at the ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who settled her claims un­der the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act with a later owner of her consumer debt is bound by the confession of judg­ment executed by the parties and plain­tiff may not sue prior owners of ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

In a commercial food packaging com­pany’s suit alleging defendant insur­ance broker failed to acquire a stop loss insurance policy for the 2014-2015 coverage year, the company may sue the broker for breach of an insurance agency contract, but the Roanoke ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who alleges he was injured when an elevator he used dropped at a high rate of speed in the Poff Federal Building wins remand of his personal injury suit to state court; the Roanoke U.S. District Court says ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District