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

The plaintiff was involved in a motor vehicle wreck on Oct. 6, 2015 on Route 220 in Franklin County when the defendant pulled out from a side road. When the front of the plaintiff’s vehicle crumpled, it dislocated his right ...

Tagged with: Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Clyde H Perdue Jr. Tort Verdict

The plaintiff was a 16-year-old high school student who suffered a suspected right patellar dislocation playing softball on April 14, 2014. There was evidence that the plaintiff was back to exercising and playing basketball during the summer of 2014. On ...

Tagged with: Auto Accident Judge David B. Carson Salem Circuit Court Tort Verdict

A woman who received a bill from a hospital, even though she was not a patient, can sue the hospital for defamation after it referred the erroneous bill to a debt collector. Background In August 2015, Children’s Hospital of the ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts