Where the court previously ruled that the employment agreement between an assistant professor and Eastern Virginia Medical School, or EVMS, precluded the professor from asserting a claim for misappropriation of the trade secret against EVMS, the professor’s motion for reconsideration ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where correctional officers moved for summary judgment against claims of gross negligence, willful and wanton negligence and deliberate indifference filed by the family of a detainee who experienced chest pains that ultimately resulted in his death, but there were inconsistences ...

Tagged with: Judge Roderick C. Young Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a doctor had maintained an active clinical presence in the defendant’s specialty, and had performed the contested procedure in the past, he satisfied the active clinical practice requirement to be qualified as an expert witness in Virginia. Background This ...

Tagged with: Judge Roderick C. Young Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the defendant, who was visiting an apartment, moved to suppress drug and weapons evidence seized from the apartment, but the leaseholder had given permission for the search and the defendant never expressly objected to the search, his motion to ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a company argued it was entitled to $396,832.59 in damages, instead of the $59,000 it was awarded after a jury found a former employee breached his duty of loyalty, the company’s arguments were rejected. There was no evidence the ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A boat manufacturer sued by the city of Norfolk following the capsizing of a maritime security vessel saw its motion for summary judgment denied by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The city’s product liability suit ...

Tagged with: Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where Hampton University School of Pharmacy challenged the decision of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, or ACPE, to withdraw Hampton’s accreditation, and the court denied Hampton’s motion for summary judgment, it now refused to certify its ruling for immediate ...

Tagged with: Administrative Law Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A dispute over an alleged breach of contract between a boat manufacturer and the city of Norfolk will proceed to trial after a federal judge denied the manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment. The suit was filed over a purported failure ...

Tagged with: Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a complaint alleged that the plaintiff and defendant were both citizens of Virginia, so there was no diversity jurisdiction, and the complaint did not clearly assert any claims that could serve as the basis for federal question jurisdiction, it ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a boat used in maritime security operations capsized during a test run, and the City of Norfolk then sued the manufacturer under a failure to test or failure to warn theory, the manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment was denied ...

Tagged with: Judge Roderick C. Young Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District