In awarding fees on a motion to compel in a franchise termination case, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says billing rates probably have changed in the past two years, and the magistrate judge needs to take another look at her ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A franchise consulting company wins summary judgment against defendant, a Canadian company that wanted to franchise its Freshii “healthy fast-food” restaurants in the U.S., for breach of an exclusive marketing and sales agreement to pay plaintiff consultant fees for its ...

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

In awarding fees and costs to defendant Verizon after it won summary judgment in an employment discrimination suit, a magistrate judge in the Richmond U.S. District Court says “no” to costs for processing, storage and production of electronically stored information ...

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

Dillard’s department store can enforce an arbitration agreement against four employees alleging termination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as the parties’ pre-dispute arbitration agreement does not violate the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, says a Richmond ...

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

Twitter users, including Dutch and an American computer security specialists and a member of the Icelandic Parliament, lose their bid to persuade a magistrate judge of the Alexandria U.S. District Court to vacate its “Twitter Order” that required Twitter to ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A customer cannot survive summary judgment in his slip-and-fall suit against Wal-Mart with a late proffer of a purported conversation among store employees about the wet spot on the floor where he slipped and was briefly knocked unconscious; the Richmond ...

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

A lawyer’s retainer agreement calling for payment of 40 percent of “any recovery” gives the lawyer 40 percent of the Rule 68 judgment for $10,000, not 40 percent of the overtime pay gained by his client; the Richmond U.S. District ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court judge refuses to recuse himself from hearing plaintiffs’ lawsuit challenging the 2006 foreclosure sale of their commercial property, based on allegations that include the judge’s 1996 denial of a motion to vacate sentence filed by ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says a bank can intervene in plaintiffs’ lawsuit challenging the 2006 foreclosure sale of plaintiffs’ Manassas commercial property, as the bank is the beneficiary of certain deeds of trust that encumber the property. To the ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiffs’ claim for abuse of process in the 2006 foreclosure sale of their commercial property in Manassas is barred by res judicata, says an Alexandria U.S. District Court. Plaintiffs Peter and Veron Lee Kalos have filed numerous actions in this ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District