Employees settled Fair Labor Standards Act claims regarding overtime pay after the court required removal of “unreasonable” provisions on confidentiality and liquidated damages. Background On July 14, 2015, plaintiff Wayne Brockman filed his initial complaint against defendants Keystone Newport News ...

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Although an inmate had an exemplary record during his 22 years in prison, the court denied his motion to vacate his conviction because the government opposed it. Background On March 5, 1997, after a week-long jury trial, Marty Lorenzo Wright ...

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On a motion for default judgment, the court found a manufacturing company established that the corporate defendant breached a contract to deliver a crane, and its owner was personally liable for the resulting loss. Background Plaintiff Bauer Compressors, Inc. accepted ...

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An ADEA class was conditionally certified in a suit asserting that a school system declined to rehire older employees for IT positions. Background Plaintiff Joseph Andreana has been employed with Defendant Virginia Beach City Public Schools for over 28 years, ...

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An ADEA class was conditionally certified in a suit asserting that a school system declined to rehire older employees for IT positions. Background Plaintiff Joseph Andreana has been employed with Defendant Virginia Beach City Public Schools for over 28 years, ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Civil Rights Class Action Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In addition to the judgment of approximately $750,000 entered against a municipality for failing to reinstate an employee after FMLA leave, the county will also be liable for over $200,000 in pre-judgment interest and attorneys’ fees and costs. Background In ...

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Officers’ search of a defendant’s bag while he was speaking with officers in another room was not incident to lawful arrest, as there was little chance he could reach the bag or control its contents at the time. The firearm ...

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The court denied Defendant Orbital ATK Inc.’s motion to dismiss several claims related to trade secrets and computer crimes, arising from its employee accessing Plaintiff Space Systems/Loral LLC’s proprietary information on a NASA server used by both companies. Space Systems ...

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A philanthropy guide’s publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group” designation for Plaintiff Liberty Counsel is not grounds for liability under the Lanham Act, the court held. Liberty Counsel is a nonprofit education, advocacy, and legal defense organization ...

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After a jury found Defendant Main Industries Inc. liable for employment discrimination and awarded Plaintiff Louis E. Warren Jr. $150,000 in compensatory damages, the court added an additional total of $167,256 in back and front pay. According to the evidence ...

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