A retail store wins summary judgment in a customer’s suit for brain injuries she allegedly suffered when she walked through a narrow corridor and her forehead suddenly struck the corner of a metal shelf, because she was focusing on a ...

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

A franchise consulting company wins summary judgment against defendant, a Canadian company that wanted to franchise its Freshii “healthy fast-food” restaurants in the U.S., for breach of an exclusive marketing and sales agreement to pay plaintiff consultant fees for its ...

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

A search of a package mailed from Bolivia to defendant’s home in Alexandria, after x-rays showed the picture frames and coasters inside the package had an unusual density, was a border search conducted within the government’s constitutional and statutory authority, ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denied a request to deliver a pro se closing argument, from a Jordanian who worked as a shipping supervisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, at the end of his six-day trial for embezzlement in ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says a Jordanian who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, as a shipping and customs supervisor responsible for facilitating shipments of personal property of embassy personnel in and out of Iraq, can be prosecuted ...

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

A qui tam relator proceeding on his own, after the government elected not to intervene in his suit under the False Claims Act, is subject to the automatic stay in bankruptcy where the two corporate defendants sued under the FCA ...

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

A woman suing Wyeth on allegations that its hormone replacement therapy drug, Prempro, caused or aggravated her breast cancer, cannot proceed on a claim that Wyeth had a duty to conduct additional tests or studies of the drug, says an ...

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

A group of buyers trying to get out of real estate contracts by relying on a little-used federal statute may have reached the end of their road in Alexandria U.S. District Court. The goal of the Interstate Land Sales Full ...

Tagged with: Contract Federal Courts Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Judge T.S. Ellis III Real Estate

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants defendant corrections official summary judgment in this suit by plaintiff, an inmate at Greensville Correctional Center and Sunni Muslim who suffers from a skin condition, who was prohibited from growing a beard. Plaintiff suffers ...

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

Prior to trial of plaintiff’s claim that defendant’s product for female hormonal replacement therapy promoted her breast cancer, an Alexandria U.S. District Court rules on the parties’ motions in limine. The court defers defendant pharmaceutical company’s motion in limine to ...

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