A Richmond federal jury returned verdicts this month totaling $58.6 million for a door manufacturer that claimed it was getting unfairly squeezed by a supplier. The jury found that Oregon-based JELD-WEN violated both antitrust law and a supply contract when ...

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The court largely dismissed with prejudice the claims of two former homeowners seeking rescission of the foreclosure sale of their property, finding that their legal theories were not viable. However, the court granted the plaintiffs leave to amend as to ...

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In this Fair Credit Reporting Act class action, the court concluded that it could consider a spreadsheet created by Defendant GEICO containing information it received from the credit reporting agency it used to conduct background checks on job applicants. GEICO’s ...

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Alexander Rice, Individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated, et al., v. Genworth Financial Incorporated, et al. (VLW 017-3-428, 36pp.) (Robert E. Payne, S.J.) 3:17cv59; E.D. Va. Two motions in a consolidated securities fraud action seek appointment as ...

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In plaintiff door manufacturer’s antitrust suit against defendant producer of interior molded doorskins, for allegedly terminating a Supply Agreement, merging with another doorskin producer and restricting its production of doorskins to use in its own manufacture of doors, the Richmond ...

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A defendant sentenced to probation after a DUI conviction, who was not served with a Dec. 28, 2015, warrant on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a firearm, cannot be charged with a probation violation after he faced a new charge ...

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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s dismissal of an appeal of a three-judge panel’s decision that Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District reflects an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, the panel lifts the stay on its earlier award of $779,189.39 in attorney’s ...

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A defendant charged with participation in an MS-13 gang-related murder cannot take Rule 15 depositions of three witnesses who are in the country illegally, based on their alleged fear they could be arrested if they come to court to testify, ...

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A former manager of capital markets for defendant BB&T Securities can sue the company for breach of contract in two Restricted Stock Agreements, on two theories, and for a declaratory judgment invalidating noncompete provisions in the RSAs, for allegedly failing ...

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

After a bench trial, a Richmond U.S. District Court will grant an insurance carrier a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend or indemnify an insured under a homeowners policy against a suit filed by his stepdaughter seeking ...

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