In this suit for money damages filed by the surviving parent and sibling of two family members who died when a German pilot deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 into a mountainside in the Alps, plaintiffs may sue defendant Germanwings and ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court has personal jurisdiction over United Airlines in this lawsuit filed by plaintiffs, whose family members died in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, which was deliberately downed on a mountainside by its copilot; the court ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court revokes bond for a former CIA agent accused of spying for the People’s Republic of China, as the government has shown by clear and convincing evidence that defendant is a flight risk and represents a ...

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A network engineer of Nigerian national origin who alleges defendant wrongfully terminated his Consultant Agreement cannot sue for breach of contract, as that claim is time-barred under Virginia law, but he has a chance to amend his personal and corporate ...

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A defendant convicted of kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender under USSG §§ 4B1.1 and 2 in 2000 is not eligible for resentencing in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), ...

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An El Salvadoran citizen’s detention for 10 months pursuant to a reinstated removal order does not violate the Due Process Clause when the alien’s petition for relief under the Convention Against Torture is pending before the immigration judge following the ...

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Plaintiff Goodwill Industries wins a default judgment and injunction against defendant, who allegedly breached their contract allowing defendant to place and service Goodwill-branded donation bins in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area; an Alexandria U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s ...

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In plaintiff home buyers’ action to enforce a Settlement Agreement for a sum of money to settle their contract action against defendant home builder, an Alexandria U.S. District Court refuses the buyers’ request to reform the Agreement to allow them ...

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A police officer and a prosecutor who failed to revoke arrest warrants after learning that no crime was committed – leading to the arrests of an Alexandria couple – are immune from civil rights claims, a federal appeals court has ...

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An applicant for a special agent position with the FBI loses his Title VII suit challenging as sex discrimination the FBI’s gender-normed physical fitness test that requires men to perform 30 pushups, but passes women with only 14 pushups; on ...

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