Defendant government contractor wins summary judgment in this pregnancy discrimination suit filed by the founder and sole employee of a subcontractor who alleges she was terminated because of her pregnancy; defendant was not plaintiff’s joint employer, says an Alexandria U.S. ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies an insured’s request that it abstain from deciding a carrier’s suit for a declaratory judgment that it can deny coverage to an insured for causing the death of a child, when the insured babysitter ...

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

In this trade secrets and unfair competition case, an individual defendant who did not sign an arbitration agreement nevertheless can enforce the arbitration clause in his employer’s dealer agreement to require plaintiff to mediate claims against the individual, based on ...

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

A Honduran citizen’s references to family members being threatened or harmed for refusal to cooperate with drug traffickers, and threats made against him, are not sufficient to find him eligible for withholding of removal; petitioner has failed to demonstrate that ...

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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court orders a 59-year-old optician to pay defendants attorney’s fees after he dismissed his suit alleging age bias led his former colleagues not to rehire him as practice manager when they purchased the optometry practice for ...

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

In plaintiff’s False Claims Act suit against defendant student loan agency, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Escobar does not warrant reconsideration of the court’s earlier decision that plaintiff has stated a plausible ...

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

Plaintiff, a native of Azerbaijan, who is Jewish and who alleges national origin and religious discrimination and hostile environment in violation of Title VII, wins a stay of her Title VII case to allow the trustee in her reopened chapter ...

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

A defendant sentenced to probation after a DUI conviction, who was not served with a Dec. 28, 2015, warrant on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a firearm, cannot be charged with a probation violation after he faced a new charge ...

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

A public school academic coach can sue defendant school officials for defamation and harm to her reputation for discontinuing her involvement in Standards of Learning testing after reporting an “inconclusive” result of an investigation into SOL testing irregularities; however, the ...

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

A school employee who took medical leave and leave to care for her husband, and who was not excused for all the leave she took, has not shown that her absence from work for over two months was a pretext ...

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