Where a federal loan servicer offered evidence suggesting a law firm operated a fraudulent scheme to create lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, the firm was ordered to produce documents because of the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client ...

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

A federal judge’s ruling on attorney-cli­ent privilege has brought to light a novel Virginia lawsuit claim: Lawyers alleged­ly induced student loan debtors to stop making payments in order to trigger ac­tionable collection calls. A student loan debt servicer claims the ...

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

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