Where three employees formed a company and competed with their current employer for a contract from another company, they did not breach a duty of loyalty owed to their employer because they were preparing for work that would begin after ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the government seized cigarettes from a store as part of an investigation into alleged trafficking of contraband cigarettes, and kept them as evidence at trial, the store owners couldn’t sue the government for the value of the cigarettes. Background ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Where one business partner alleged the other partner conspired to fraudulently obtain service-disabled veteran owned small business set-aside contracts, a RICO conspiracy claim survived the motion to dismiss. Background Plaintiff has asserted two RICO counts against Neil Parekh, his business ...

Tagged with: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a customer alleged he was falsely accused by a Walmart employee that he wanted to fight her, his defamation claim was dismissed because the allegedly false statement was not defamatory. Background Ernest J. Wall alleged that a Walmart employee ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where information about the banks’ realty-referral programs was publicly disclosed, that information was the subject of the relators’ suit and the relators weren’t original sources, their False Claims Act suit was dismissed. Background Relators are real estate agents who allege ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Although an individual allegedly told the plaintiff that his minor daughter had been assaulted, the intentional infliction of emotional distress claim was dismissed because such conduct isn’t sufficiently outrageous. Background Momolu Sacker Sirleaf alleges that in 2005, while he was ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas T. Cullen Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Where automobile repair shops alleged that insurance carriers steered customers away from their businesses because they refused to comply with certain terms, because they failed to show a business expectancy that was lost or that carriers used improper methods, their ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the defendant publicly accused the owner of a company of providing the governor’s wife with a “no-show” job, but he based his statement on a Washington Post article and there was no evidence he harbored serious doubts about its ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tort

Although the defendants argued they weren’t liable for alleged violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, because the government failed to prosecute them for defrauding plaintiffs and didn’t order restitution in a related criminal matter, that ...

Tagged with: Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiffs alleged that defendants promised to deliver highly trained service dogs to customers that they never intended to deliver, the RICO, fraud and consumer protection act claims survived the motion to dismiss. Background This case involves an allegedly ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District