A Norfolk U.S. District Court says the Eastern District of Virginia is a proper venue for this action by plaintiff shipyard against the City of Key West, Florida, seeking payment of over $1 million for repair work performed on the ...

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

Defendants, a federal contractor and a Miller Act surety, win summary judgment in a tile subcontractor’s suit for payment of an additional $75,703 for replacement of floor tiles in a cafeteria in the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, ...

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

A defendant cannot suppress evidence of the $145,850 in U.S. currency discovered in his luggage when security screening at Dulles Airport disclosed “unknown masses” in his suitcase, an Alexandria U.S. District Court holds. Bound in large bundles by rubber bands, ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this products liability and med-mal suit against multiple defendants alleging defendant Bayer’s birth control drug Yaz caused decedent’s pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis and death, a Richmond U.S. District Court says defendant manufacturer’s notice of removal was defective because ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Swiss/Canadian business suing for copyright infringement has hit all the marks for injunctive relief under Real Truth About Obama Inc. v. FEC, and an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants an injunction to prevent defendant Virginia company from selling or ...

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

Although claimant’s continued receipt of her son’s SSI checks after she no longer cared for him “reflected poorly” on claimant’s integrity, the administrative law judge’s credibility determination was not the only reason for denial of social security benefits, and in ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a defendant charged with a scheme to defraud and obtain money and property, who contributed to delay in the proceedings with his assertion of a mental capacity defense, cannot win dismissal of the indictment ...

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

In a lawsuit by a carrier against its own driver and the driver of another tractor-trailer, that was trying to merge onto a highway and was rear-ended by plaintiff’s driver, a Richmond U.S. District Court says that despite “extensive and ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A bankruptcy court did not err in refusing to lift the automatic stay to add debtor as a defendant to a federal racketeering complaint in federal district court, according to an Alexandria U.S. District Court. Appellant Lewis Settlement Group provided ...

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

A state trooper victimized by identity theft need not disclose to defendant credit company her settlement agreements with three credit reporting agencies and a separate debt collection agency, on related claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the ...

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