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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Costco Fadwa Safar Jan Eshow Judge Albert Diaz Judge Henry F. Floyd Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Judge T.S. Ellis III Stephanie Rodriguez

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 ...

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

In this business conspiracy and tortious interference suit, a single defendant’s notice of removal indicating that all defendants consented to removal “as evidenced by the Joinder of defendants …” can plausibly be read to require the non-removing defendants to file ...

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

An attorney’s fee award case that has ping-ponged between Alexandria federal court and the 4th Circuit has been lobbed back to the lower court. But this time the trial judge has not been asked to reconsider its $1.2 million fee ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Attorneys Fees Judge Roger L. Gregory Judge T.S. Ellis III

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies an insured’s request that it abstain from deciding a carrier’s suit for a declaratory judgment that it can deny coverage to an insured for causing the death of a child, when the insured babysitter ...

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

In this trade secrets and unfair competition case, an individual defendant who did not sign an arbitration agreement nevertheless can enforce the arbitration clause in his employer’s dealer agreement to require plaintiff to mediate claims against the individual, based on ...

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

A chief operating officer for a consulting firm that works with public sector entities cannot rebut his employer’s claim that he was demoted, then fired, for his failure to investigate a client agency’s complaint against an employee and failure to ...

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

Defendant mobile home park wins summary judgment in this fair housing suit filed by plaintiffs from El Salvador and Bolivia who alleged defendant discriminates against them by requiring tenants who seek lease renewal to present certain documents relating to their ...

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