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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Albert Diaz Judge Liam O'Grady Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Police who were investigating a fellow police officer accused of sexually molesting a young girl violated defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights when they seized defendant’s tablet and laptop computers under a warrant that authorized a search for evidence related to the ...

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

In plaintiffs’ suit seeking rescission of a foreclosure sale, defendants timely removed the action after a Virginia state court issued a letter opinion dismissing claims against the non-diverse defendants, but the “voluntary-involuntary rule” bars removal, and the Richmond U.S. District ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants defendant university’s motion to dismiss a professor’s claim alleging her department chair defamed her by accusing her of speaking disparagingly about the department, having “meltdowns” and “temper tantrums” and complaining that she did not ...

Tagged with: Employment 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 plaintiffs’ renewed ...

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