In this Fair Credit Reporting Act suit filed by plaintiffs who allege they were denied employment based on allegedly inaccurate and incomplete criminal his­tories supplied by defendant CoreLogic National Background Data LLC, a Rich­mond U.S. District Court denies plaintiffs’ renewed ...

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

In this Fair Credit Reporting Act suit filed by plaintiffs who allege they were denied employment based on alleged­ly inaccurate and incomplete criminal histories supplied by defendant Core­Logic National Background Data LLC, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion ...

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

In this suit challenging defendants’ use of employment background checks, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants reconsideration of its earlier decision in order to dismiss claims of some plain­tiffs, but denies reconsideration as to additional claims. Plaintiffs allege in count ...

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

Lawyers have been warned: Thieves are out to take your mon­ey with their internet confidence games. One lawyer who spotted a suspected email fraud still ended up burned when his mail account was later commandeered to work a scam on ...

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

Although plaintiff’s lawyer’s email account was hacked and plaintiff’s $63,000 settle­ment of his job bias suit was misdirected to an overseas bank account, plaintiff still must dismiss his suit because his lawyer failed to exercise ordinary care to notify oppos­ing ...

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

An assistant attorney general suing under the Equal Pay Act has a claim for retaliation based on her firing 10 weeks after she last complained of unequal pay; her role as lead counsel in two ongoing prosecutions served as a ...

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

In this class action asserting defendant employer violated the Fair Credit Report­ing Act with inadequate disclosures about obtaining pre-hiring consumer reports, the Richmond U.S. District Court says the Safeco “objective reasonableness” test does not ap­ply to defendant’s action and any ...

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

A lawyer who claimed she was kept on the job until she finished two important trials, and then fired 10 weeks after she complained about unequal pay, can sue her employ­er for retaliation. The lawyer, who worked for Virginia At­torney ...

Tagged with: Attorney General Mark Herring Employment Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this patent infringement suit, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants a mistrial because plaintiff failed to dis­close all of the materials relied upon by its expert in his reverse engineering reports, in violation of the Stipulated Discovery Order; the ...

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

A former Director of Food Services for defendant public school system has stated a claim for defamation per se based on defendant school superin­tendent’s statements to a reporter that plaintiff had been suspended and that, “if an employee is suspended, ...

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