A Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to a defendant officer who was part of a SWAT team attempting to arrest a murder suspect who had barricaded himself in a bathroom of his father’s house and threatened to shoot ...

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

An inmate who suffered a body temperature of 108.5 degrees and a heat stroke that caused permanent injury, after personnel at the Richmond city jail allegedly failed to allow inmates housed on the Medical Tier access to air-conditioned portions of ...

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

In this class action alleging defendant law firm’s collection letter violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, defendant firm’s Rule 68 Offer of Judgment did not moot plaintiff’s suit, and the Richmond U.S. District Court finds a factual dispute as ...

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

In the wake of a Richmond U.S. District Court decision that the 2012 redistricting plan implemented by Virginia violates the Equal Protection Clause, the court grants the intervenor defendant’s motion to postpone the remedial deadline for a new plan until ...

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

The City of Richmond will pay a record $2.99 million to resolve a civil rights claim by a former inmate who claimed he was left disabled from heat stroke suffered at the old city jail in 2012. Evidence in the ...

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An African-American customer who alleges he observed a white Home Depot clerk allow a white customer to return cans of spray paint without a receipt, but the same store clerk refused to allow plaintiff to return unopened spray paint cans ...

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

After dismissing plaintiffs’ suit alleging defendant schools, their principals and teachers, and their lawyer discriminated against black and special education students, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants the school board lawyer’s motion to sanction plaintiffs’ counsel for the complaint’s lack ...

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In a Libertarian political candidate’s suit challenging Virginia laws and practices that assign small-party and independent candidates a lower place on voting ballots, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants the commonwealth’s motion to dismiss; Virginia has articulated a sufficient reason ...

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

A plaintiff who failed defendant hospital’s family medicine residency program who alleges race and gender discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation for working hours in excess of established guidelines under the American Council for Graduate Medical Education, has not stated claims ...

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In this suit alleging defendant law firm’s form collection letter violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Richmond U.S. District Court rejects plaintiff’s motion to certify a class of Henrico County residents and grants defendant’s motion to certify a ...

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