A jury will decide whether a middle school resource officer who tackled a 14-year old during an investigation into the alleged distribution of nude photographs of a fellow student violated the minor’s constitutional rights. Because it was clear that a ...

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

Where an alleged wrongful termination, common-law conspiracy and statutory conspiracy occurred at the Redford Arsenal, land ceded to the United States, there was subject matter jurisdiction because the land was a “federal enclave.” The same claims, however, failed as a ...

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

Atlantic, the company constructing the ACP natural gas pipeline, was awarded an easement required to construct the pipeline after the property owner failed to respond to the complaint in condemnation. The defaulting party was awarded $420 based upon the condemnor’s ...

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

Where a woman alleged a temporary employment agency and her actual employer were joint employers liable for alleged sexual harassment, she was entitled to information and documents that might reveal a joint relationship, but only for the period of her ...

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

Where an affidavit submitted in sup­port of an application for a search war­rant omitted critical information, includ­ing that controlled buys were made by two separate confidential informants and any information about the reliability of the informants, and the omitted informa­tion ...

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

Although Subaru argued the plaintiff was improperly relying upon her own subjective, undefined standards to sup­port her product liability claims, a motion to dismiss is not the proper avenue to contest a lack of expert testimony. Suba­ru will have opportunity ...

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

Where a woman whose claims against out-of-state automotive components sales and distribution companies included only a “few scattered contacts” with Virginia, there was no demonstration of purposeful activity to establish meaningful contact with the forum state. Therefore, court lacked jurisdiction ...

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

Where Progressive’s policy did not cov­er the tractor or trailer involved in the fa­tal motor vehicle accident and the driv­er was not acting in pursuit of his own trucking business at the time of the acci­dent, there was no coverage. ...

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

Where the Southern Environmental Law Center pleaded that policies and practices of the Department of the Interi­or were being used to violate the Freedom of Information Act, and that it was being injured by those policies, it had standing to ...

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

Capital One Financial Corporation lost its bid to stay a Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, suit pending a ruling either from the Federal Communications Commission or the United States Supreme Court on the correct interpretation and application of ...

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