In this dispute between Shire LLC, a drug company, against a scientist who formerly worked for another company acquired by Shire, and who left to form his own biopharmaceutical company, KemPharm, the Roanoke U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss the ...

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

In this suit by natural gas property owners who assert they are entitled to certain payments from defendant production company, an Abingdon U.S. District Court rejects the company’s request to certify to the Supreme Court of Virginia a question about ...

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

Virginia Tech may proceed with its suit against a local Blacksburg business, “Hokie Real Estate,” for its alleged illegal use of the “Hokie” name, as a Roanoke U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss VT’s claims for false designation of origin ...

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

Owners of a tour bus company, who were injured in an accident with a drunken driver as they left a tour bus in a rental car after the death of a family member, are not entitled to $5 million in ...

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

An Abingdon U.S. District Court affirms a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to disqualify plaintiff for two years from participation in certain federal programs, and to levy a $5,000 civil fine, after it alleged she misrepresented ownership of ...

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

In a suit in which the Danville U.S. District Court already granted summary judgment to plaintiff lender on the issue of liability, the court enters judgment for $400,043.94, plus per diem interest of $51.67 and awards attorney’s fees of $22,100.26, ...

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

In the University of Virginia Patent Foundation’s suit against GE Healthcare alleging infringement of UVa’s patent on a technique for three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the human body, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court declines to reconsider its earlier order explaining ...

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

A communications company’s contract action against Comcast and nine related corporate entities is remanded from federal to state court, as a Roanoke U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s Virginia state law claim against a Virginia resident defendant was properly pled under ...

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

In a suit alleging excessive force by sheriff’s office employees in their treatment of a DUI detainee, a Roanoke U.S. District Court says the suit is not time-barred as to two defendants because they knew or should have known the ...

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

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court declines to reconsider its earlier decision that a slate mining company can’t recover damages from Virginia’s mine safety agency for alleged warrantless administrative searches. Earlier, the court held that, although the authorizing state statute allows ...

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