Where a party challenging a settlement that resolved nine class action consumer lending cases lacked standing, delayed in seeking intervention and failed to show it had an interest in the litigation, its motion was denied. Background Eventide Credit Acquisitions LLC ...

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Although news organizations sought access to entire execution proceedings, the First Amendment does not support their argument that they must be allowed to witness the steps that precede an actual execution. Background The plaintiffs are news organizations that investigate and ...

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Despite efforts by U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes to keep his defamation and conspiracy suit against The Washington Post in the Eastern District of Virginia, the suit was transferred to the District of Columbia federal court. The article at issue was ...

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CNN won its motion to transfer the libel suit brought by U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes to the Southern District of New York on the grounds that the Eastern District of Virginia was not Nunes’ “home forum,” and most of the ...

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The newspaper lost its motion to quash a subpoena for a recording of an interview with the defendant in a suit brought by teachers. The information was relevant to the claims and could not be obtained by alternative means, there ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A suit challenging the use of Confederate names and imagery at Lee-Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School was dismissed because the Hanover County Unit of the NAACP lacked standing to assert the First Amendment claims of its members ...

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Where a Kroger manager of a store in which the shopper slipped and fell allegedly failed to take affirmative steps to prevent the fall, a negligence claim could be asserted against her. As such, she was not fraudulent joined and ...

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Although three cases arose from the same basic facts, one case was materially further along, involved a narrower set of claims and could serve as the bellweather for the other two. The risk of inconsistent verdicts was minimal because the ...

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Where a manufacturer of molded interior doors showed it was likely to prevail on its claim that a supplier breached a requirements contract and that it was suffering resulting damage to its reputation and goodwill, the supplier was ordered to ...

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Although the Virginia-based purchaser of a motorhome argued he would be “deprived of his day in court” or his ability to pursue claims under Virginia’s lemon-law if the forum-selection clause was enforced to transfer the case to Indiana, neither argument ...

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