Where the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a right to-sue-letter less than 180 days after the plaintiff filed a charge of discrimination against Virginia Tech, the college’s argument that administrative remedies had not been exhausted was rejected because the EEOC ...

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

Where the government prosecuting a pharmaceutical company over alleged fraud stemming from the development and marketing of prescription drugs presented to the grand jury evidence of a prior conviction of an individual doctor, its conduct did not warrant dismissal of ...

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

Although the government argued that the defendant should be sentenced based on the amount of cocaine for which he was found responsible under the Presentence Investigation Report, or PSR, the defendant qualified for a sentence reduction under the First Step ...

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

Where two organic mattress companies are involved in litigation over whether the defendant is improperly representing its mattresses as certified to meet the requirements of the Global Organic Textile Standard, or GOTS, an entity that implements the GOTS program was ...

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

Where two organic mattress companies are involved in litigation over whether the defendant is improperly representing its mattresses as certified to meet the requirements of the Global Organic Textile Standard, or GOTS, an entity that implements the GOTS program was ...

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

Although the expert’s report was not signed, did not list any publications, did not list his compensation, his list of prior cases was not current and his report was “brief,” the motion to exclude his testimony was denied because the ...

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

Where a magistrate judge in the Western District of Virginia ordered the defendant transferred to the Western District of Texas, after finding he was the person named in a warrant issued by that court, the defendant could appeal that decision ...

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

Although the defendant qualified for sentence reduction under the First Step Act of 2018, the seriousness of his offense and his long history of drug dealing resulted in a reduction from 322 months to 216 months, instead of the 160 ...

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

Although the defendant argued he was prejudiced by two consecutive indictments, because the two indictments did not hinder his right to testify in his own defense, meaningfully impair him from presenting a defense or require a higher sentence, he failed ...

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

Where the parties are scheduled for trial on just compensation owed to a landowner for property taken for an interstate natural gas pipeline, multiple pretrial motions over experts and other evidentiary issues were resolved. Background Plaintiff Mountain Valley Pipeline, or ...

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