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 ...

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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 ...

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The Transportation Safety Administration wins summary judgment in Alexandria U.S. District Court in this age discrimination suit filed by a 58-year-old employee who says the government discriminated when it refused to extend a salary-offset waiver that allowed plaintiff to collect ...

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A woman convicted in 2001 of ecstasy distribution cannot show the required “good moral character,” even though the distribution was not for commercial gain, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court says denial of her application for naturalized U.S. citizenship was ...

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A defendant convicted of illegal reentry into the U.S. after removal for conviction of an aggravated felony will not be subjected to a 16-level enhancement under the federal sentencing guidelines for a “drug trafficking offense”; the Alexandria U.S. District Court ...

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The rumors started to swirl just as jury selection got underway, rumors that the defendant company had spurned an offer to just “walk away” from the whole messy lawsuit. The purported offer, coming three years before trial, would have let ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court will allow an interlocutory appeal of a bankruptcy court order that granted injunctive relief and sanctions in this dispute between a condo unit owners’ association and a debtor company that owns condos; the bankruptcy court ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court says a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court requires some changes in application of this circuit’s rules on making fee awards, and the district court awards a plaintiff, who had partial success in his Truth-in-Lending Act suit, ...

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