A Lynchburg U.S. District Court dismisses a widow’s ERISA suit for life insurance benefits, as decedent employee was no longer eligible for life insurance under the employer’s plan after he began receiving short-term disability benefits and was unable to return ...

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

Although a driver had an ongoing personal relationship with his ex-wife, who owned the car he had taken to repair but wrecked, injuring his passenger brother, the driver did not have express or implied permission to take the car out ...

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

After setting aside a $3.1 million jury award to a minority contractor who alleged race discrimination in a project managed by defendant housing authority, the Danville U.S. District Court denies entry of judgment and says plaintiff contractor may file a ...

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

In this lawsuit by three former therapists at Marion Youth Center who allege race and gender discrimination and violations of the federal False Claims Act, the Abingdon U.S. District Court grants defendant’s motion to have two plaintiffs examined by a ...

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

In this lawsuit filed by three former therapists at Marion Youth Center who allege race and gender discrimination and violations of the federal False Claims Act by submission of false claims to the Virginia Medicaid Program, the Abingdon U.S. District ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court says plaintiff inmate can amend his complaint to allege a prison chaplain is a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, but the court says the chaplain did not violate plaintiff’s civil rights by posting ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court grants a new trial to defendant Virginia Tech in this Title VII sex discrimination and Equal Pay Act suit filed by female employees of the university’s development office. At the conclusion of the jury trial ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James C. Turk U.S. District Court - Western District

A Virginia plaintiff cannot sue two Kentucky residents in Virginia on a claim that defendants defamed her when they forwarded an ethics complaint about plaintiff to the ethics committee chair of a professional association; the Charlottesville U.S. District Court says ...

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

An African-American former division superintendent for Norfolk Southern railroad loses his suit alleging race discrimination in his demotion after his handling of an employee’s on-the-job injury, and retaliation in the company’s subsequent failure to promote him; a Roanoke U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James C. Turk U.S. District Court - Western District

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court dismisses a Title VII reprisal suit filed by a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service who alleges she was subjected to additional discipline and terminated in the wake of her EEO complaint alleging unfair ...

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