A Richmond U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to defendant employer on a job applicant’s claim that the employer violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to provide a proper notice of adverse action in a disclosure form that ...

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A plaintiff who alleges he has not received from defendant consumer reporting agency required information and disclosures under the Fair Credit Reporting Act during a job-application process and that a consumer report included dismissed charges that were too old to ...

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In this patent infringement suit filed by Australian companies against defendants including one located in Michigan, a Richmond U.S. District Court weighs the factors favoring the Eastern District of Virginia versus the Eastern District of Michigan, and grants motions to ...

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An employee cannot sue “Denny’s” under Title VII in Richmond U.S. District Court after filing an EEOC charge that named “RREMC LLC,” the Florida company that owns Virginia Denny’s franchises, but the complaint’s allegations that Denny’s is a “joint employer” ...

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A 1981 Virginia statute that governs ownership of mine voids is not retroactive and does not apply to plaintiff’s mine voids, which she acquired under a deed executed in 1887; the Richmond U.S. District Court says plaintiff has standing to ...

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On remand from the 4th Circuit, a Richmond U.S. District Court reviews the elements for determining class certification in this suit alleging defendant Equifax violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it allegedly failed to remove from her credit report ...

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In this lawsuit challenging 12 Virginia House of Delegates districts as the product of unlawful racial gerrymandering, a Richmond U.S. District Court orders selective disclosure of the assertedly privileged documents in the House’s possession. Plaintiffs have challenged 12 Virginia House ...

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An African-American FedEx driver who alleges he was on a “hit list” for termination, was disciplined more harshly than white drivers for similar infractions, and racially harassed and  threatened by another FedEx employee has exhausted his discrimination claims other than ...

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In the wake of a $2.99 million settlement for a Richmond City Jail inmate disabled by a heat stroke, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies the plaintiff inmate’s request to determine the value of a lien filed by one law ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class of employees with two sub-classes in this suit alleging defendant companies violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by terminating more than 100 employees without providing the ...

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