Plaintiffs who won their suit alleging defendants could not unilaterally terminate or modify retiree healthcare benefits under certain collective bargaining agreements are entitled to attorneys’ fees of $882,236.31, according to a recommendation from a magistrate judge of the Abingdon U.S. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Pamela Meade Sargent U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiffs who plead defendants have not paid royalties as required under gas leases in Buchanan County, and that defendants made purposeful false representations as to the deductions taken, the amounts of gas produced and the prices paid for the gas, ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Pamela Meade Sargent U.S. District Court - Western District

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court says the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 does not violate defendant’s First Amendment free speech rights, and the court refuses to dismiss an indictment charging defendant political candidate with altering documentation submitted to ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A minor who suffered a skull fracture and permanent hearing loss from an auto accident cannot stack UM/UIM coverage from his parents’ auto liability policy on two family vehicles, and a Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court transfers to the Alexandria U.S. District Court this suit by plaintiff Delaware corporation alleging that defendants, who live and have their business in Northern Virginia, have infringed plaintiff’s trademark for Greenberry coffee shops with defendants’ ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

A Danville U.S. District Court awards $5.25 million to a Virginia cigarette company against a North Carolina company on the Virginia company’s contract to distribute “Kingston” brand cigarettes manufactured by the Virginia company. The manufacturing stipulated in the contract implicates ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court says a deputy force has qualified immunity from this civil rights suit filed by a man who spent 90 days in jail before his lawyer convinced the county prosecutor they had charged the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A slate mining company cannot sue Virginia’s mine safety agency for warrantless administrative searches, says a Lynchburg U.S. District Court; although the authorizing state statute allows warrantless inspections after complaint, inspections are limited to surface mines, on complaints of health ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Western District

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, in the face of a constitutional challenge by plaintiff Liberty University, based on the Commerce Clause, the First Amendment and other constitutional provisions. The Patient ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

In this suit by plaintiff investors in a wood products business against their business manager’s alleged kickback scheme, an Abingdon U.S. District Court says a defendant who refused to answer deposition questions on Fifth Amendment grounds is precluded from offering ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District