An applicant for a special agent position with the FBI loses his Title VII suit challenging as sex discrimination the FBI’s gender-normed physical fitness test that requires men to perform 30 pushups, but passes women with only 14 pushups; on ...

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

A male Busch Gardens employee must arbitrate his claim that he was sexually and racially harassed by female supervisors; the Newport News U.S. District Court rejects plaintiff’s contention that he is not bound by an arbitration clause in his written ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this business conspiracy and tortious interference suit, a single defendant’s notice of removal indicating that all defendants consented to removal “as evidenced by the Joinder of defendants …” can plausibly be read to require the non-removing defendants to file ...

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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants two habeas petitions and orders resentencing for Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted of capital murder in 2003 for his role in the Beltway Sniper murders, and vacates Malvo’s sentences of life imprisonment without parole, imposed ...

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

A lawyer who owns a nationwide tax relief service has agreed to a public admonition from the Virginia State Bar coupled with promises to revise his pitch to taxpayers and to work to resolve complaints from four disgruntled customers. The ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Judge Harold W. Burgess Jr. Judge Liam O'Grady Judge Margaret P. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District Virginia State Bar Wall & Associates

A man can bring a claim for violation of the Stored Communications Act against his ex-girlfriend, who he alleges accessed his personal email after telling her not to do so. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled in Hately v. ...

Tagged with: Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Stored Communications Act U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff company’s declaratory judgment action seeking insurance coverage for asbestos-related claims, a Newport News U.S. District Court will not transfer venue to a New York federal court, where some of the same parties filed a second suit, but will ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant federal correctional officials win summary judgment in this medical malpractice action filed by a former inmate who alleges he did not receive adequate medical treatment for his condition of Peyronie’s disease, as his experts have indicated he would not ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court upholds a two-year suspension of plaintiff patent attorney’s license to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on charges including his having signed a paper filed with the USPTO without first conducting a reasonable ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s claim alleging defendants improperly provided and/or used a credit reporting agency’s “consumer report” against her in an adoption-related proceeding, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Plaintiff’s amended complaint alleges violations of ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District