A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court will hold an evidentiary hearing to allow a policyholder to develop her claim that stress and “general incapacity” rendered her unable to timely file her suit against an insurance company she says did not fully ...

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

A former employee of Pilgrim’s Pride poultry processing company who is suing the administrative committee of the company’s Retirement Savings Plan under ERISA for failure to produce Plan documents has her case transferred from the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court to ...

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

Although decedent’s mother has not filed an answer in this interpleader action to determine who gets proceeds from decedent’s life and AD&D policies, a Roanoke U.S. District Court will not enter default judgment in this interpleader action, as the court ...

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

A Danville U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motions to proceed using pseudonyms and for a protective order in her lawsuit challenging defendant county board of supervisors’ regular practice of opening its meetings with explicit Christian prayer as invalid under U.S. ...

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

A Danville U.S. District Court grants plaintiff a preliminary injunction in her suit challenging a county board of supervisors’ regular practice of opening its meetings with explicit Christian prayer. The court finds plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits ...

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

A Danville U.S. District Court denies defendant county board of supervisors’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the board’s regular use of explicitly Christian prayer to open its twice-monthly meetings. Plaintiff regularly attends board meetings and objects to the Christian ...

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

A plaintiff who received a reduction in his home mortgage payment as part of the Home Affordable Modification Trial Period Plan (TPP) cannot pursue a claim under the Truth in Lending Act after the lender cancelled his participation for deficient ...

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

A former civilian employee of the Army who failed to check on the status of her age and sex discrimination case for the seven and one-half years it languished in another federal district court after an order transferring venue to ...

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

In this case alleging defendant Randy Coley, through his business East Coast Cablevision, contracted with DIRECTV to have cable service delivered to 168 units at Massanutten under an account assigned to plaintiff Sky Cable, but cable service actually was provided ...

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

A plaintiff who hired two companies to construct and install on his Augusta County property an underground shelter for up to 250 persons, at a total cost of $2.4 million, cannot be sued for defamation for his statements to the ...

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