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

A businessman who witnessed first-hand the devastation of 9/11 from his Manhattan office has sued the companies he hired to build a million-dollar underground shelter in Augusta County to protect his family. The businessman has won the latest round in ...

Tagged with: Defamation Federal Courts Judge Michael F. Urbanski

Under the controlling Ohio law, a Note that gives the lender an “option” to take an equity interest in the borrower does not make the equity interest an exclusive remedy for the lender, and the Roanoke U.S. District Court refuses ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s request for a TRO to keep defendants from using any confidential information misappropriated from plaintiff company, based on testimony from a computer consultant about a defendant’s removal of technical information from a company ...

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