A nurse may sue her employer for defamation based on another employee’s allegations that plaintiff nurse made derogatory comments about a number of patients, and for “publication” of additional allegations of unprofessional conduct to plaintiff’s personnel file; the Norfolk U.S. ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A real estate investor who says his name was forged on loan documents in a scheme to sell memberships with sham benefits has stated a claim for violation of Virginia’s business conspiracy statute, says the Lynchburg U.S. District Court. Plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who alleges slander and defamation by her supervisor and a U.S. Navy civilian employee related to plaintiff’s work ethic has her suit dismissed with prejudice by the Norfolk U.S. District Court, as plaintiff failed to exhaust her administrative ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A female civilian contractor at Fort Lee, who was assigned defendant, a U.S. Army captain and Catholic chaplain, to be her “advocate” to assist her as her husband tried to obtain an annulment through the Catholic church, has stated claims ...

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

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