An insurance carrier that had to pay a bond to an estate after debtor, conservator of the estate, forfeited the bond by failing to show cause why he did not file a final accounting, must return to bankruptcy court to ...

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In this case arising out of the receipt and unauthorized distribution of DIRECTV satellite programming to thousands of viewers at Massanutten Resort, a vendor who was assigned the Massanutten DIRECTV account but never received commissions does not have standing to ...

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

Although a former manager for plaintiff traffic control company is not a named defendant, he is a co-conspirator in his alleged scheme to take plaintiff company’s trade secrets and methods and first, form his own competing company, and upon discovery, ...

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A driver who initially denied any knowledge or ownership of the $119,030 in U.S. currency discovered in his rental car during a traffic stop on I-81 cannot now persuade the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court that the currency was money his ...

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A Roanoke U.S. District Court rejects defendant’s jurisdictional and constitutional challenges to a charge that he failed to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250. Among his other challenges, defendant takes ...

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A federal judge has unceremoniously dismissed a lawsuit over the rights to a lucrative but risky website set up to connect customers with “escort services” and similar shady undertakings. One of the business founders claimed he was ripped off by ...

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A petitioner who says his lawyer failed to communicate an earlier, more favorable plea deal from the prosecution has stated a colorable Sixth Amendment claim, and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court will hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner’s motion for ...

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In a subcontractor’s Miller Act claim on a payment bond issued by defendants, the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses the claim as time-barred. Plaintiff TopSource filed a warrant in debt in a Virginia general district court on June 20, 2012, ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court orders a defendant who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes to pay the full amount of restitution of $1,737,360 to the State of New York, but orders a nominal payment schedule as ...

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A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court upholds a bankruptcy court’s fee award to debtor’s counsel for work that included adversary proceedings and a motion to sell a parcel of real estate, based on the bankruptcy court’s interpretation of the Rule 2016(b) ...

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