The court declined to grant voters in Virginia House District 28 a preliminary injunction ordering the district’s election results of 2017 to be vacated, barring the Clerk of the House of Delegates from seating the winner, and ordering a new ...

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Defendant Media Research Center Inc. did not infringe on Plaintiff Larry Philpot’s copyright by obtaining his photos from Wikimedia and using them without attribution on the Center’s own website. Philpot is a professional photographer who, as part of his work, ...

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A political organization that used two photographs of famous musicians on its website – without credit to the photographer – was not liable to the lensman despite a creative commons license that required attribution, a federal judge has ruled. The ...

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Harry McPike wanted to a spaceman, that’s what he wanted to be. McPike, a native of Austria who now lives in the Bahamas, is an adventurer, a rich man who likes to push life to the limit. McPike is the ...

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Plaintiff Harald McPike, a wealthy adventurer seeking to become a space tourist, can proceed on claims of fraud and breach of contract against Defendant Zero-Gravity Holdings Inc., f/k/a Space Adventures, Ltd. In 2013, Space Adventures contracted to provide a circumlunar ...

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Rodriguez v. Capital Commercial Solutions LLC (VLW No. 017-3-450, 5 pp.) (Ellis, J.) 1:17-cv-112; E.D. Va. Holding: In an action concerning violations of the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, plaintiff-workers correctly asserted that the ...

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Fraternal Order of Police Metro Transit Police Labor Committee, Inc., v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) (VLW 017-3-447, 12pp.) (T.S. Ellis III, J.) 1:17cv644; E.D. Va. Motion to dismiss complaint for breach of contract arising from settlement agreement. Holding: ...

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In this dispute between a plaintiff and his company who subcontracted with defendant to supply labor on a Department of Defense contract, the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants defendant summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims for retaliation in violation of the ...

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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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