A prime contractor for operation of Army family health center facilities who had to renegotiate its prime contract after a successful bid challenge, and a subcontractor on a subcontract awarded before the original prime contract award who asserts the original ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In reviewing a bank’s fraud suit against defendants, who entered into agreements in 2009 to transfer assets of an excavating company to an employee stock ownership trust, but who failed to make payments to plaintiff bank, an Alexandria U.S. District ...

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In this dispute between two competing providers of a specialized insurance service over a confidentiality and licensing agreement for proprietary software for one provider to administer the service to the other provider, the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court says it has both subject matter and personal jurisdiction over this suit seeking confirmation of a $2.8 million arbitral award in favor of plaintiff insurance company and against the Argentine Republic, but the court transfers ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss with prejudice a plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant school system “forced” her to leave and discriminated against her on the basis of age by causing her to resign prior ...

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

A collections lawyer is not liable for false representations that violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act just because she made “immaterial technical errors” when responding to a debtor’s counterclaim. Alexandria Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III rejected the ...

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A collections’ lawyer’s legal responses to a debtor’s TILA and usury counterclaims do not violate the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, merely because they are “unsuccessful or contain immaterial technical errors,” and an Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses FDCPA claims ...

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Immigrant’s fully expired state court conviction for attempted sexual battery is not a basis for habeas corpus relief to prevent deportation, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says: immigrant is not in custody within the meaning of 28 USC § 2254,  ...

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The parties are the estranged parents of a minor child. Respondent-mother had relocated with the child from Geneva, Switzerland, to Alexandria in April 2011, and petitioner-father sought the return of the child to Switzerland under an international treaty (the Hague ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Federal Courts Judge T.S. Ellis III

An Alexandria U.S. District Court certifies this case for direct appeal to the 4th Circuit so it may determine whether U.S. or German insolvency law should apply to the many patent licensing agreements at issue for debtor Qimonda AG, which ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District