A judge’s discovery sanctions will hobble a seagoing security company in its bid for insurance coverage after its ship and crew were seized by Indian authorities. The sanctions include preclusion of evidence beyond the company’s limited discovery responses and an ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a plaintiff was entitled to an award of attorney’s fees and reasonable expenses because the court had granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel, fees charged by plaintiff’s counsel in relation to work unrelated to the motion to compel could ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In rejecting the attorney-client privilege argument made by a law firm that once represented two plaintiffs, the court found the defendant made a prima facie showing that plaintiffs committed fraud upon the court by producing altered emails and that fraud ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In an African-American female’s suit alleging race and age discrimination by defendant IKEA US East LLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge orders the pro se plaintiff to pay defendant $4,792 for its reasonable fees and expenses for plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this litigation over dissolution of a partnership and distribution of its assets, counsels’ assistance to a Special Master in the sale of certain properties at a handsome price prompts the Alexandria U.S. District Magistrate Judge to recommend a fee ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss plaintiff’s race and disability bias lawsuit under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, due to plaintiff’s repeated failures to respond to discovery requests and appear at court hearings; the ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Claude M. Hilton Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit by a produce company al­leging defendant catering company and its shareholders failed to fully pay invoic­es in violation of Section 5 of the Perish­able Agricultural Commodities Act and common law, an Alexandria U.S. District Court accepts a ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court Mag­istrate Judge awards a defense attorney with 31 years’ experience $788 in attor­ney’s fees for her 2.25 hours spent in con­nection with defendants’ two motions to compel discovery responses from plaintiff. As to the reasonableness ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Due to defendant interior design com­pany’s failure to respond to discovery and otherwise defend against plaintiff client’s suit, an Alexandria U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge awards plain­tiff a default judgment in her suit al­leging breach of contract, trespass and violation ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A federal magistrate judge in Virginia lacked jurisdiction to issue a warrant to deploy a computer hacking tool that enabled the government to identify a Massachusetts man as a user of an online child-pornography site, a Massachusetts federal judge has ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Criminal Judge Theresa C. Buchanan