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

In this action arising from the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 in the Port of Aden in Yemen, filed by surviving family members of sailors killed in the attack, a Norfolk U.S. District Court says on remand ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses defendant Kolon Industries’ second amended counterclaim, but grants it leave to amend once more to allege a relevant geographic market and anticompetitive conduct, which may be severed for separate adjudication. This action arises out ...

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

A former Henrico County police investigator, terminated after conflicts with the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney and Henrico police officials over the investigator’s role in a criminal investigation allegedly involving several high-level Richmond government officials, can sue the commonwealth’s attorney and defendant ...

Tagged with: Hanover County Circuit Court Judge Jay T. Swett Tort

In this contract and tort litigation arising from defendants’ departure from employment with plaintiff specialty insurance company to form their own company, a Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiffs’ claim for restitution/unjust enrichment, but declines to dismiss plaintiffs’ claims for ...

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

A law firm avoids liability on a claim of tortious interference with contract rights today because the plaintiff business failed to allege that the law firm intended to cause the alleged harm. The ruling in DurretteBradshaw, P.C. v. MRC Consulting, ...

Tagged with: Contract Law Firms Supreme Court of Virginia Tort

Personal injury defendants enjoy the protection of certain caps on damages in Virginia. At times, defendants have been able to invoke that protection sooner, rather than later, by getting trial courts to reduce ad damnum clauses to cap levels before ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia Tort