The “mailbox rule” does not apply to save this untimely notice filed by a pro se prisoner, says an Abingdon U.S. District Court. A notice of appeal in this case was due no later than Oct. 12, 2009. An extension ...

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

A 60-year-old child molester, on probation for a firearm offense, can be restricted from possession of pornography, alcohol abuse and associating with children, but he can’t be subjected to a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and prevented from all ...

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

In this prosecution of defendant for his role in a former corporate president’s alleged scheme to conceal income and assets through a bogus church, the government’s indictment charging conspiracy and obstruction of justice is fatally defective, and a Roanoke U.S. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses a lawsuit filed by a sports-advocacy group against James Madison University alleging that JMU violated Title IX and the federal constitution by eliminating 10 varsity athletic teams in 2007, including men’s cross-country, track and ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A former employee at a Head Start program who successfully prosecuted a False Claims Act exposing the agency’s submission of fraudulent claims to the federal government for an agency retreat wins his suit for agency retaliation against him, and the ...

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

A personal injury plaintiff gets to take videotaped trial depositions of his medical experts, even though a discovery cutoff has passed, under a ruling last month by a federal judge in Harrisonburg. The opinion by U.S. Magistrate Judge James G. ...

Tagged with: Judge James G. Welsh Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Western District

An autistic student sent to a Charlottesville private school by the county for his Individualized Education Program has no IDEA or contract claims against the county or the school, according to a Charlottesville U.S. District Court magistrate judge report, but ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A nonprofit independent living center wins summary judgment in this suit by a blind plaintiff who alleges he was discharged from his job in violation of § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; an Abingdon U.S. District Court says plaintiff did ...

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

A Swedish engineering consultant and his firm can amend their complaint against a Virginia company, Base-X, and one of its employees, which alleges Base-X failed to renegotiate a commission as required under a Marketing Agreement plaintiff had to help Base-X ...

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

After allowing trial on a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that a former criminal defendant whose state-court rape conviction was reversed because defendant officers violated his right to counsel by having a female officer surreptitiously record uncounseled conversations with him ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District