In this suit alleging a U.S. Navy employee was negligent in stopping his vehicle to ask highway workers if he could use a closed exit because he was late getting to the airport, and decedent struck the stopped vehicle from ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit for his torture and shooting at the hands of defendant, a colonel in the Somali National Army, in their Somali homeland during 1987 and 1998, the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s claims under the Alien Tort ...

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

The prospective buyer of a Ford dealership does not have standing to sue a manufacturer-franchiser, who exercised its right of first refusal under the franchise agreement, for tortious interference with contract and business expectancy and violation of a Virginia statute ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge G. Steven Agee Tort

An Oregon company that developed new “SawStop” safety technology for table saws has failed to state antitrust conspiracy claims against a wide array of industry competitors, some of whom licensed plaintiffs’ technology, and who allegedly refused to deal with plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A father who is suing the Albemarle County Social Services Department and a private therapist who allegedly manipulated his daughter into accusing him of molesting her, can compel the private therapist to produce records of her work with his daughter, ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert S. Ballou Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses this suit against a parent corporation headquartered in Virginia and its Cameroonian subsidiary alleging liability under the Alien Tort Statute and Virginia common law for injuries stemming from alleged power failures in Cameroon. Plaintiffs ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An employee of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard who drove a government vehicle from his worksite to an onsite parking lot to carpool home in a personal vehicle, but who suffered a stroke en route and caused multiple accidents while still ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this diversity case claiming damages for failure to properly design a building foundation, the individual defendant, a principal in the defendant engineering firm, wins judgment on the pleadings because the damages claim is barred by Virginia’s economic loss rule ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiff demolition company wins its false advertising claim and a refund of its premium for a surety bond, as defendant surety’s sales brochure misrepresented that the bond in question would meet all requirements of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations for plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

In addition to the judgment won by plaintiffs against the Republic of Sudan under the Death on the High Seas Act, for the deaths of American service members in the 2000 Al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole, the Norfolk ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert G. Doumar Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District