A Norfolk Circuit Court sua sponte vacates its order, entered one day earlier, prohibiting defendants “May4thCounts.com” and a “Disgruntled Citizen” from using the website, and ordering its removal from the Internet. According to the complaint, the website publishes “certain information ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles E. Poston Norfolk Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

An employee at a VA Medical Center who alleges the Center director initiated criminal prosecution of the employee, even though she left the center when her companion, who had been banned from Center property, was told she must leave or ...

Tagged with: Judge James R. Spencer Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former employee suspected of publicizing managers’ salaries and social security numbers during a labor strike can sue under Virginia’s “insulting words” statute on an allegation that she was falsely accused of criminal conduct, says an Abingdon U.S. District Court. ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a $1 million defamation suit against a leading advocate of child vaccination, holding that defendant physician’s statement, “She lies,” in reference to an anti-vaccination advocate, was not actionable. Plaintiff Barbara Loe Arthur is the ...

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

A former Navy officer who nonsuited his claim that The Virginian-Pilot defamed him with an editorial that attacked his “openly racist and anti-Semitic” writings, cannot relitigate his status as a public official and public figure in his re-filed suit, says ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman A. Thomas Norfolk Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

The 4th Circuit has reversed a $323,957 judgment against the president of a computer security company for abuse of process and intentional interference with business expectancy. Worldwide Investigations & Research Inc and BNX Systems are both corporations that provide computer ...

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Although plaintiff incurred expenses to develop a new domain name, Web site and e-mail account after her former husband and business partner allegedly accessed her e-mail account during their divorce proceedings, plaintiff has not alleged the requisite threshold jurisdictional “loss” ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A government contractor has absolute immunity from civil liability for defamation for statements about plaintiff’s billing practices in response to a government contracting officer’s immunity, and defendant contractor’s consultant agreement with plaintiff also allowed defendant’s contracts manager to make the ...

Tagged with: Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although plaintiff business has filed a complaint with the FCC in regard to defendant’s alleged release of a toll-free number the business used to market its products to an “adult” phone hotline, plaintiff nevertheless can pursue its state law claims, ...

Tagged with: Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge Marjorie T. Arrington Tort

A bank employee who alleges she was defamed when her employer stated she was terminated for “job abandonment” does not get another chance to try her case after a jury rejected her claim, a Richmond U.S. District Court holds; the ...

Tagged with: Judge James R. Spencer Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District