A Richmond U.S. District Court says a statute that prohibits weapon possession by a man convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence is not an unconstitutional infringement on his Second Amendment rights, although an unpublished appellate opinion lends some support to the ...

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

Although a commercial lessor’s lease administrator initially agreed with tenant Cost Plus that a shopping center lease required a new tenant as a replacement for Linens N’ Things, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the plain language of the lease ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this copyright dispute between two authors over a script and novel treatment of a story that has morphed from a desert search for a manuscript by the ancient Greek hero Odysseus, to a separate desert search for a secret ...

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

A man who still occupies his home after its sale at foreclosure gets nowhere with his claim to the property based on the legal theory that securitization of his mortgage loan renders his note unenforceable, and an Alexandria U.S. District ...

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

A Richmond Circuit Court grants summary judgment for defendant school administrators accused of violating the due process rights of a female high school student suspended for 10 days after other students observed her performing oral sex on a male student ...

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

When the captain of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel fell asleep at the wheel and struck plaintiff’s 70-foot yacht docked at the pier at Ocean Marine marina in Portsmouth, the yacht was a constructive total loss based on ...

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

In a discovery dispute in DuPont’s suit against Kolon Industries alleging trade secret misappropriation, theft of confidential business information and conspiracy, a Richmond U.S. District Court says Kolon is entitled to a cover e-mail DuPont in-house counsel sent to an ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses an Arlington County resident’s First Amendment suit challenging the county’s involvement in a project to purchase real estate from the First Baptist Church of Clarendon and to loan money for construction of affordable housing ...

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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies a protective order to an automobile dealer to prevent plaintiff’s lawyer, who alleges the dealer’s sale of a “new” vehicle with hundreds of miles on the odometer violated the Federal Odometer Act and the ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge F. Bradford Stillman U.S. District Court - Eastern District

On reconsideration, a Richmond U.S. District Court decides not to suppress a firearm seized from defendant’s vehicle after he was arrested for driving on a suspended license; the seizure of the marijuana from defendant triggered the exception to the rule ...

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