Sales Rep Fired for Phony Sales-Call Logs
Although plaintiff, a female pharmaceutical sales representative, claims she was discharged in retaliation for her complaint of being bullied and intimidated by her male supervisor, company records...
View ArticleBuilder Did Not Infringe Georgian Home Design
In plaintiff home designer/builder’s suit against a couple who allegedly built a home that infringed on plaintiff’s copyright for the “Bainbridge” home design, a Newport News U.S. District Court grants...
View ArticleNo Extra Affidavit in Home-Design Copy Case
In plaintiff home designer/builder’s suit against a couple who allegedly built a home that infringed on plaintiff’s copyright for the “Bainbridge” home design, a Newport News U.S. District Court denies...
View ArticleMold Claims Advance for Military Tenants
In this litigation removed from state court in which plaintiff military families allege damages and injury from “damp indoor space and mold exposures” at “rental military housing” in Norfolk, a Norfolk...
View ArticleCourt Can’t Hear Claims for Cash, Silver Bars
In this dispute between a woman who had been discussing divorce with her husband, who fatally shot himself after changing his life insurance beneficiary to his mother and giving his mother $10,000 in...
View ArticleNo Student Loan Discharge on Mental Illness Claim
A chapter 7 debtor who alleges assets of $2,200 and student loan debt well over $200,000, has not shown that an undocumented mental illness has kept her from earning sufficient income to pay her...
View ArticleNo Emotional Distress Claim for Coworkers’ Conduct
A former vice president of defendant company who was terminated does not state a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against her former coworkers with allegations that they accused...
View ArticleStore Customer Was Negligent in Aisle Fall
A Sears store wins summary judgment in a negligence suit filed by a customer who tripped and fell over a plastic “sport court” mat, 30 inches wide and 12 inches long, on the floor; the Norfolk U.S....
View ArticleNo ‘Lesser-Included’ Instructions in Spy Case
A retired Petty Officer First Class who had a top secret security clearance and served as cryptologic technician aboard U.S. submarines, and who has been charged with attempted espionage under 18...
View ArticleJurisdictional Issue Gets Expedited Appeal
A Norfolk U.S. District Court says federal law applies to this request to vacate an earlier court order attaching the vessel M/V Cape Viewer, of which defendant is the registered owner, and this court...
View ArticleNo Supervisor Liability on FMLA Claim
A former vice president of defendant company has not stated a claim for individual liability of the company’s HR manager because plaintiff has not alleged facts that show the necessary substantial...
View ArticleArbitration Waiver Stands, Court Says
In a Barbadian dolomite supplier’s contract action against a glass manufacturer who allegedly refused to accept or pay for part of a shipment of dolomite from a Spanish quarry, the Norfolk U.S....
View ArticleDefendant Wins Fees for ‘Frivolous’ Claim
In plaintiff home designer/builder’s suit against a couple who allegedly built a home that infringed on plaintiff’s copyright to a “Bainbridge” home design, a Norfolk U.S. District Court denies an...
View ArticlePlaintiffs Win Damages for USS Cole Attack
In addition to the judgment won by plaintiffs against the Republic of Sudan under the Death on the High Seas Act, for the deaths of American service members in the 2000 Al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S....
View ArticleCourt Vacates Vessel Attachment Order
A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies a motion to vacate an attachment order against a vessel in order to allow claimants to pursue its alter ego claims. In 2008, plaintiff Flame S.A. entered into Four...
View ArticleCourt Orders ‘Alter Ego’ Discovery
A Norfolk U.S. District Court upholds a magistrate judge’s order requiring defendant to produce discoverable material concerning alter ego allegations in this admiralty case involving attachment of a...
View ArticleNo Twombly Rule for Affirmative Defense
A Norfolk U.S. District Court declines to apply the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard to defendant’s affirmative defenses, after acknowledging there is no controlling appellate law and a diversity of...
View ArticleCellphone Trade Inscriptions Admissible
In defendant’s prosecution for production and receipt of child pornography, the Norfolk U.S. District Court grants the government’s motion on admissibility of trade inscriptions, and says the “Made in...
View ArticleNo Injunction in Hand-Washing Patent Case
In this patent infringement case involving systems for detecting hand washing by health care workers, the Norfolk U.S. District Court denies a preliminary injunction, as the two most important factors...
View ArticleShipping Company Wants Maritime Attachment
The Norfolk U.S. District Court denies defendant freight company’s motion to dismiss plaintiff shipping company’s action to enforce an arbitration award previously confirmed by a New York federal...
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