In this bank fraud and identity theft prosecution, a Norfolk U.S. District Court overrules defendant’s objection under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) and says it will admit evidence about defendant’s recent arrest in New York City with an apparent phony debit ...

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

In this suit in which Mead Johnson, manufacturer of Enfamil brand baby formula, alleges defamation and other counterclaims against PBM Products, which has advertised its store-brand infant formula as comparable to Enfamil, a Richmond U.S. District Court excludes an e-mail ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit in which Mead Johnson, manufacturer of Enfamil brand baby formula, alleges defamation and other counterclaims against PBM Products, which has advertised its store-brand infant formula as comparable to Enfamil, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff PBM ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies a motion to suppress evidence found in a residence, pursuant to a search that defendant contends was illegal because the affidavit supporting the search warrant did not establish probable cause and was so lacking ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this patent infringement dispute, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff Humanscale’s motion to compel and orders defendant CompX to provide certain sales data and to make properly prepared designees available as corporate representatives for separate depositions on both ...

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

A bank employee who alleges she was defamed when her employer stated she was terminated for “job abandonment” does not get another chance to try her case after a jury rejected her claim, a Richmond U.S. District Court holds; the ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court declines to dismiss an insurance carrier’s declaratory judgment action to resolve who was entitled to decedent’s $54,800 in employee life insurance benefits, his ex-wife who claimed under a property settlement agreement, or his second wife ...

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

A plaintiff company undergoing an ex parte reexamination appeal, at the behest of Cisco Systems Inc., of plaintiff’s patent issued in 2005, cannot challenge a regulation of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that regulates the appeal process in these ...

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

In this trademark infringement dispute between plaintiff Noell Crane Systems and defendant Noell Crane and Services Inc., a Norfolk U.S. District Court holds that the Settlement Agreement between the parties requires NCSI to specifically perform its obligations under the Agreement, ...

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

U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman will take senior status Nov. 30. Friedman was a Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge when President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench in 1997. Friedman told The Virginian-Pilot that he had notified ...

Tagged with: Judge Jerome B. Friedman U.S. District Court - Eastern District