A Danville U.S. District Court grants defendant Bank of North Carolina summary judgment on plaintiff River Community Bank’s claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in a Loan Participation Agreement, but the court denies ...

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

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies a motion to transfer this negligence action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and/or for strict liability under the Railroad Safety Appliance Act to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...

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

Defendant Western Express Inc. has no duty to defend plaintiff Georgia-Pacific LLC in an underlying tort case brought by a Western Express driver who was injured while securing a load of wood to his truck while on Georgia-Pacific property, says ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Robert S. Ballou U.S. District Court - Western District

A CGL policy issued by plaintiff carrier to a business owned by husband and his son, listing the business as the named insured and identifying a 2004 Lincoln Town Car owned by husband and wife as a “covered auto” in ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court denies a motion to quash subpoenas duces tecum issued to allow inspection of movants’ financial records as part of an ongoing healthcare fraud investigation. Movants seek an order pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 3410 of ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Western District

A quality control technician at a snack manufacturing plant loses her suit alleging employer violated the Family and Medical Leave Act by terminating her after she requested FMLA leave for medical tests and surgery; the Abingdon U.S. District Court grants ...

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

The Abingdon U.S. District Court dismisses a pro se complaint filed by plaintiff challenging the constitutionality of various Virginia child custody laws, the actions of various state court judges, the personal conduct of his ex-wife’s current husband in relation to ...

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

An African-American associate professor at a community college who alleges he was terminated after he complained about salary inequity for African-American employees and confronted a non-minority student who used the “N-word” in his class has stated Title VII claims for ...

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

A police officer who suffered permanent injury to his left wrist and hand while arresting an intoxicated person has not shown that the defendant city violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it did not offer him positions as a ...

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

In appointing a trustee in this reopened lumber company bankruptcy originally commenced in 1927, the Abingdon U.S. District Court will follow former Bankruptcy Rule 209 and appoint a previously appointed guardian ad litem in the case as trustee of the ...

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