An employer said an employee agreed to arbitrate employment-related claims against the company, but the employee denied signing any such agreement. Now, a jury must decide if an agreement to arbitrate was reached. U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Meade Sargent of ...

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

Where the estate of a driver who died from carbon monoxide poisoning alleged his Dodge Journey was unreasonably dangerous because the engine did not automatically turn off after he removed the key fob from the car, the manufacturer, FCA, was ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a passenger sued the pilot and the airlines for personal injuries allegedly suffered when she disembarked via airstairs, her claim against the pilot was dismissed because she did not plausibly allege he could have foreseen the risk of danger ...

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

Where an employee alleged her supervisor singled her out for criticism in front of other employees, embarrassed her in sales meetings, manufactured criticisms of her job performance and forced her to sign a document precluding her from filing a civil ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where body camera footage showed the decedent, an unarmed Black man who had been accused of violent conduct and was resisting arrest, quickly swung both of his arms in the direction of the officers in a motion that looked like ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the director of the Pittsylvania County Department of Social Services, or DSS, was terminated two weeks after she spoke as a private citizen about community divisions affecting the delivery of social services in Pittsylvania County, a jury will decide ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a Walmart store manager claimed she was paid less than male colleagues, but her alleged comparators worked in different departments, had different duties and dealt with different decisionmakers, she failed to state a prima facie case of gender bias ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the removing party in an insurance coverage declaratory judgment action could not show that there was clear diversity among the parties, the case was remanded to state court. Background This matter is a declaratory judgment action filed by State ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where information about the banks’ realty-referral programs was publicly disclosed, that information was the subject of the relators’ suit and the relators weren’t original sources, their False Claims Act suit was dismissed. Background Relators are real estate agents who allege ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Although an individual allegedly told the plaintiff that his minor daughter had been assaulted, the intentional infliction of emotional distress claim was dismissed because such conduct isn’t sufficiently outrageous. Background Momolu Sacker Sirleaf alleges that in 2005, while he was ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas T. Cullen Tort U.S. District Court - Western District