In a case involving a qui tam suit against four student loan corporations, the appellate panel rejected claims of error by the trial court for refusing to admit an audit of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Agency, and for faulty jury ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Tort

Because an aviation maintenance technician’s complaint failed to plead facts sufficient to infer that United Airlines presented false invoices to the federal government for payment, the district court correctly dismissed two claims under the False Claims Act. However, because the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Allyson K. Duncan Tort

Plaintiffs’ motion to amend their complaint against their employer and corporate officers was granted with respect to new federal claims, denied without prejudice with respect to a malicious prosecution claim and denies with prejudice with respect to the Bowman claim, ...

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

A former state employee’s claim that her employer publicized issues about her insubordination, attendance and incompetence was insufficient to state a claim under § 1983 because these statements all related to plaintiff’s job performance, which does not rise to the ...

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

Although the subcontractor’s lender’s conversion and unjust enrichment claims against a general contractor were barred by the economic loss rule, its fraud claims were not affected by the rule because they involved omissions prior to the contract. Background Defendant W.M. ...

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

The court refused to enter a permanent injunction, despite the jury’s finding that eight trade secrets were misappropriated, because the moving party argued to the jury that a reasonable royalty would adequately compensate it for the theft, and the jury ...

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

While the court dismissed some claims brought by an addiction recovery business that the defendant attempted to steal clients, it found allegations that the defendant changed the recovery business’s phone number on the Internet in order to redirect customers, were ...

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

Plaintiff’s allegations that a concrete production plant allowed spray paint to blow onto its property, causing damage to its buildings and cars, and that the plant allowed “slurry runoff” onto the property, were sufficient to state a plausible claim for ...

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

Facts alleged by the former executive director of the Peninsula Airport Commission suggest that colleagues made false and defamatory statements about his conduct that were not opinions and were made with actual malice. The court denied the defendant’s motion to ...

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

Where two parties modified their own real estate contract, allegedly to the detriment of a non-party, the lower court erred by ruling in favor of the non-party on its tortious interference claim because parties cannot tortiously interfere with their own ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Supreme Court of Virginia Tort