In the wake of a jury verdict for defendant employer in plaintiff’s discrimination suit, a Roanoke U.S. District Court declines to tax the entire $16,346.19 in costs requested by defendant, and instead will order plaintiff, a “young college graduate with ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court orders arbitration of plaintiff truck driver’s claim that he was harassed, disciplined and eventually terminated as a result of his repeated complaints regarding safety violations at defendant company’s Salem, Virginia facility, and in violation of ...

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

An 11-year-old student who was suspended from middle school may sue the school’s assistant principal and the school system’s chief operations officer for due process violations based on allegations that defendants knew the “crumpled leaves” found in his backpack on ...

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

An Abingdon U.S. District Court grants the government’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ civil action seeking reimbursement of amounts paid to the IRS as a result of tax liens on real property owned by them but which taxes they claim were ...

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

In this contract dispute over manufacture of vacuum bags, defendant’s allegations of representations by the company president and other personnel at plaintiff’s company about its gluing equipment and ability to meet delivery dates sufficiently state a counterclaim for fraud, and ...

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

Although the parties agreed a motion for sanctions would be withdrawn in their settlement of this personal injury action, the Abingdon U.S. District Court says defendant violated discovery rules by failing to prepare the 30(b)(6) witness, instructing the witness not ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to an employer who allegedly terminated plaintiff, its human resources director, by text message after she informed the company CEO that she would seek leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act ...

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

A staffing company that assigned a physician to a hospital emergency department may not use a summary judgment motion to escape liability for the physician’s alleged malpractice in failing to diagnose decedent’s pulmonary embolism; an Abingdon U.S. District Court says ...

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

In these related cases remanded by the 4th Circuit for “a more rigorous analysis” of the requirements for class certification, the Abingdon U.S. District Court denies additional discovery requested by plaintiffs, as not addressing the issues identified by the 4th ...

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

An Abingdon U.S. District Court says a female social worker’s Title VII religious and gender bias claims against the Russell County Department of Social Services and its board may go forward, but the court dismisses her additional claims for defamation, ...

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