Defendant Sheetz wins summary judgment in a suit filed by a store manager who suffers from bipolar disorder and who alleges she was fired in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act, in this ...

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A title company suing as subrogee property owners who transferred property with language for an easement they could not convey has provided sufficient detail of the basis for its demand for $106,282 in damages that it paid to the buyers ...

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A Roanoke U.S. District Court affirms an order holding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated the automatic stay in bankruptcy when it applied a Chapter 7 debtor’s $4,200 federal tax refund, for which she filed a homestead exemption, to ...

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A Sheetz store manager who had been on a performance action plan after her store’s low ranking in a nationwide internal survey did not engage in protected activity under the Americans with Disabilities Act when she told a human resources ...

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In this interpleader action arising out of the unauthorized distribution of DIRECTV satellite programming to viewers at Massanutten Resort, the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court vacates its July 25, 2014 consent order requiring parties to submit to binding arbitration and grants ...

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Although the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court ordered plaintiff reinstated with defendant Virginia Panel Corporation when plaintiff won her claim that employer interfered with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act, relations between the parties since the reinstatement have ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses this declaratory judgment action filed by three FM radio stations asking the court to declare that broadcasts, made via a geofencing technology yet to be implemented, are exempt from liability for copyright royalties under ...

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A Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant Apple did not hire him for an “At-Home Advisor” position because he is a white male, based on defendant having interviewed him over Skype and allegedly made its hiring decision ...

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Although plaintiff amended her employment discrimination complaint to omit a state-law wrongful discharge claim but keep a sexual harassment claim, and then filed her state-law wrongful discharge claim in state court, the employer can’t win dismissal of both claims from ...

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ROANOKE — The manufacturer of a pain medication infusion pump will pay $900,000 and also conduct a review of warnings and instructions on its product in order to settle a lawsuit over the 2011 death of a Roanoke radio figure. The ...

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