Where the summons and complaint was received at the defendant’s house on Aug. 29, that date started the 30-day clock for removing the case to federal court. Although the defendant argued he was not home on Aug. 29, did not ...

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Where an “all risk” policy included accidental or fortuitous “direct physical loss[es],” and it is plausible that a fortuitous “direct physical loss” could mean the property is uninhabitable, inaccessible or dangerous because of intangible or nonstructural sources, a spa that ...

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Where emails, conversations and deposition testimony, as well as the plaintiffs’ expert, suggested collusion among the defendants in the peanut selling industry resulted in approximately 12,000 farmers being underpaid, a class was certified. Background Plaintiffs are a group of peanut ...

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Where an employee was terminated for refusing to tell his employer the results of a COVID-19 test after he had been exposed to his mother who tested positive, his lawsuit against based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

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Although it was error to accept the defendant’s guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition without first establishing he knew of his prohibited status, the error was harmless because there was overwhelming evidence that ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The state cause of action for reverse passing off is preempted by copyright infringement claims under the Copyright Act. The state conspiracy claim is preempted by the Copyright Act because it was not qualitatively different from the underlying copyright and patent ...

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Although the expert opinions of psychiatrists and psychologists are that a defendant charged with kidnapping resulting in death can no longer be restored to competency in order to stand trial, the indictment will remain pending in the event he may ...

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Where two cases involving a total of eight defendants had been joined because of similarities in the indictments, the interrelationships of the defendants and duplication of various allegations, the challenges of social distancing and limited staff due to COVID-19 prompted ...

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Two defense attorneys for a man charged in a multi-count drug, money laundering and racketeering conspiracy were disqualified because they were being paid, in part, by a potential co-conspirator, giving rise to “an actual serious conflict” that could not be ...

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Lawyers who were paid in part by a potential co-conspirator in an alleged Hampton Roads drug distribution ring have been disqualified from representing a key defendant. U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson removed both an Atlanta lawyer and a Norfolk ...

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