At a bench trial of a medical-malpractice claim, Plaintiff Eugene Gadson failed to prove his doctors’ negligence by a preponderance of the evidence because the parties’ respective experts offered diametrically-opposed testimony as to the appropriate standard of care. Three days ...

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

Employees of the federal judiciary are not entitled to the administrative and judicial review provisions of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA), the court held. Perteacher Drone, who had been a probation officer for the Eastern District of Virginia, was ...

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

On Plaintiff Sierra Club’s motion to recover fees and costs as the prevailing party, the court granted attorney fees of $457,718 and expert fees of $102,000, as well as certain litigation costs. Sierra Club had sued Virginia Electric & Power ...

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

Ruling that concerns about latex exposure in a hospital workplace were mere speculation without testing, a federal judge has allowed the disability discrimination claim of a woman with a latex allergy to advance to trial. The decision last month by ...

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

Even though the Honduran petitioner failed to seek asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., since his arrest by immigration authorities led to more violence against his family and threats against his associates in more Honduran cities, petitioner ...

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

While slowing to stop at a traffic signal on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, in the City of Newport News, plaintiff’s sedan was struck from behind at a high rate of speed by a work truck driven by the defendant driver, ...

Tagged with: Judge Lawrence R. Leonard Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Bowman v. ResCare, Inc.  (VLW No. 017-3-510, 14 pp.) (Gibney, J.) Civil Action No. 3:16-CV-601-JAG Holding: Where plaintiffs-employees claim their workplace conditions were poor, their supervisors ignored their complaints and treated them badly, and they were paid unfairly, and where ...

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McCray v. Infused Solutions LLC  (VLW No. 017-3-470, 13 pp.) (Doumar, J.) 4:14-civ-158; E.D. Va. Holding: Where plaintiff employee, a clerk placed at an Army recruiting center by the defendant subcontracting staffing agency, was terminated after a 90-day reprimand notice ...

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

Elhady v. Piehota (VLW No. 017-3-448, 20 pp.) (Trenga, J.) 1:16-cv-375; E.D.Va. Holding: Plaintiffs are 25 United States citizens, all Muslim, who claim they are included on the government’s terrorist watch list and contend that this status subjects them to ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Eggiman v. Ventures Trust 2013-I-H-R (VLW No. 017-3-449, 8 pp.)(Hilton, J.) 1:16-cv-01579; E.D. Va. Holding:  Where plaintiff property owner fails to allege that he had superior title through satisfaction of his loan obligations, he fails to state a quiet title ...

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