Furnishings for a bankrupt hotel are not “improvements” that can be claimed under a mechanic’s lien, and a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court reverses a bankruptcy court order allowing the furniture to be claimed in a supplier’s mechanic’s lien. Summit argues ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A mother-daughter alleged oxycodone distribution team cannot suppress evidence seized from the daughter’s home or from the mother’s person when she was frisked, in this case from Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court. The mother-daughter pair had been under investigation ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Western District

A former employee suspected of publicizing managers’ salaries and social security numbers during a labor strike can sue under Virginia’s “insulting words” statute on an allegation that she was falsely accused of criminal conduct, says an Abingdon U.S. District Court. ...

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

On remand from the 4th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to a police officer who entered a darkened home to investigate suspicious circumstances attendant to a neighbor’s report, accompanied by a man searching for his minor stepdaughter, a Roanoke U.S. ...

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

A defendant who pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking conspiracy charge that has a higher mandatory minimum sentence than the mandatory minimum sentence on his 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charge of use of a firearm during the drug trafficking conspiracy, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Western District

Employees of the Alliant Ammunition & Powder Company who were called back to work on their regularly scheduled days off are entitled to overtime pay under their union contract, and a Roanoke U.S. District Court affirms an arbitration award in ...

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

A defendant’s Rule 11 hearing demonstrates his knowing and voluntary guilty plea to an agreement that included a waiver of his right to collateral attack, and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court denies his § 2255 motion challenging a sentencing enhancement ...

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

An Abingdon U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff school administrators’ suit against defendant school board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which alleges that defendants violated the administrators’ constitutionally protected right to a continuing contract by notifying them at one point that ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court excludes each side’s expert witness in this dec action by a malpractice carrier who says a lawyer did not timely notify it of a possible claim arising from the lawyer’s drafting a marital settlement agreement. ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Western District

This case arose out of an automobile accident that aggravated an underlying spinal stenosis. Plaintiff had a C-4 through C-7 fusion and surgery on his lower back. Evidence presented in negotiations consisted of a transcript of the underlying traffic case ...

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