Where a woman sued her former attorneys for providing deficient legal advice in a suit over an alleged sexual assault, her claims for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty were dismissed as redundant of her claim for breach of contract. ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where plaintiffs’ counsel were awarded more than $10 million in attorneys’ fees for their role in settling a class action arising out of Lumber Liquidators’ sale of allegedly defective flooring products, objectors failed to show that the award was excessive ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert B. King Tort

Where a customer sued Mercedes-Benz for $150 billion because of its alleged conduct during her request for roadside assistance, her intentional infliction of emotional distress, or IIED, claim was dismissed because she did not show the conduct was intentional or ...

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

Where a member of a limited partnership that managed assets of a family trust alleged the person controlling the partnership acted improperly, but the claim was not brought derivatively on behalf of the partnership, the “novel” pleading strategy was rejected. ...

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

Where an attorney acting pro se sued an Eastern District of Virginia judge and his judicial assistant for their alleged ultra vires actions in connection with a lawsuit in which the plaintiff is a party, including for their alleged participations ...

Tagged with: Judge Paul W. Grimm Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an individual sued his former girlfriend and a police offer for their alleged involvement in his arrest and incarceration for a burglary he did not commit, and the former girlfriend did not join in the notice of removal, the ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth Hanes Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiff sued to recover paintings taken under duress by the Nazis following the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, the Ministry of Education, Culture & Science of the Netherlands was entitled to sovereign immunity under the Foreign ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael F. Urbanski Tort

Where apartment building management allegedly failed to repair the loud door of the plaintiff’s rental unit, which his disabled son opened and closed repeatedly throughout the day and night, there was no violation of the Fair Housing Act because such ...

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

Where a high school student alleged a male nurse practitioner assaulted her during a medical exam, and the medical facility argued the alleged assault and battery was not within the scope of his employment, discovery was required to determine whether ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a mother failed to show a child would be in grave danger of harm if she was returned to Canada to live with the father, the child was returned to Canada. Background Nina Lynn Nowlan appeals the district court’s ...

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