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

U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of Lynchburg is taking senior status, and Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner have asked statewide bar groups to crank up their vetting procedures for replacements for Moon and for U.S. District Judge Jerome ...

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

Where a school teacher alleges adverse job actions as retaliation for a racial harassment complaint, the school board’s motion to dismiss based on the 300-day limitations period is denied by a Roanoke U.S. District Court where at least one alleged ...

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

Where a suspect acted in a furtive manner as he drove away from the area where an officer heard six gunshots, the officer had cause to require the suspect to exit his vehicle and submit to a pat-down, and the ...

Tagged with: Judge Samuel G. Wilson Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Western District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court grants the activist defendant’s motion for acquittal as to one count of making threatening communications to a civil rights lawyer; jury findings of guilt are allowed to stand on two other charges of making threatening ...

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

In an insurer’s declaratory judgment action to determine a corporation’s liability insurance coverage for a personal injury claim, a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court denies the corporation’s motion to dismiss or transfer the action in consideration of a collateral dec action ...

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