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

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 holds that, as a sanction for failure to comply with an order to produce documents during discovery ...

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

In this suit by plaintiff company for breach of a nuclear imaging services contract, a Roanoke U.S. District Court says the heightened standard for pleading under ‘Twiqbal’ does not apply to affirmative defenses in the answer filed by a cardiology ...

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

A creditor on a promissory note is not obliged to sue the guarantor on the note first, and a Danville U.S. District Court enters judgment for plaintiff creditor, as defendant maker of the note admits he is in default and ...

Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

A Danville U.S. District Court reverses a bankruptcy court’s denial of debtor’s motion to avoid a judgment lien of Beneficial and Beneficial Discount Company on debtors’ Danville real estate, as Beneficial “silently stood by without so much as a scintilla ...

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