Defendant Media Research Center Inc. did not infringe on Plaintiff Larry Philpot’s copyright by obtaining his photos from Wikimedia and using them without attribution on the Center’s own website. Philpot is a professional photographer who, as part of his work, ...

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

The court denied Defendant Linda Howard’s motions for judgment as a matter of law after a jury found her liable for numerous violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Howard, a U.S. citizen employed by the State Department at the ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After a jury found Defendant Main Industries Inc. liable for employment discrimination and awarded Plaintiff Louis E. Warren Jr. $150,000 in compensatory damages, the court added an additional total of $167,256 in back and front pay. According to the evidence ...

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

The court granted summary judgment to Prince William County School Board on discrimination claims by Plaintiff Kwame Yeboah-Kankam, an African-American male originally from Ghana. The court also dismissed Yeboah’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Yeboah was hired as ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this Fair Credit Reporting Act class action, the court concluded that it could consider a spreadsheet created by Defendant GEICO containing information it received from the credit reporting agency it used to conduct background checks on job applicants. GEICO’s ...

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

To be sexually explicit for purposes of federal child-pornography crimes, an image need not depict an affirmative sexual act by the child and may be considered “lascivious” based in part on the anticipated audience response or the motive of the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A political organization that used two photographs of famous musicians on its website – without credit to the photographer – was not liable to the lensman despite a creative commons license that required attribution, a federal judge has ruled. The ...

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

Harry McPike wanted to a spaceman, that’s what he wanted to be. McPike, a native of Austria who now lives in the Bahamas, is an adventurer, a rich man who likes to push life to the limit. McPike is the ...

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

Plaintiff Harald McPike, a wealthy adventurer seeking to become a space tourist, can proceed on claims of fraud and breach of contract against Defendant Zero-Gravity Holdings Inc., f/k/a Space Adventures, Ltd. In 2013, Space Adventures contracted to provide a circumlunar ...

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

Plaintiff Delcie Farmer, a medical employee with a severe latex allergy, may proceed to trial on claims that Defendant HCA Health Services of Virginia subjected her to illegal discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Farmer had been employed ...

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