Richmond Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

When he was 79 years of age, former U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Robert H. Bork, accepted a speaking engagement at the New York City chapter of the Yale Club. As he walked onto the dais, Judge Bork...

Many employers provide Blackberries and other remote devices to their employees hoping to increase productivity by allowing the employees to access their email and perform other work from remote...

Court Grants Conditional Class Certification of Timeshare Salespeople Seeking Unpaid Overtime and Minimum Wages

Judge Scott, who sat in the Fredericksburg Circuit Court for the past 12 years, died yesterday after having surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Judge Scott was a pioneer as the Fredericksburg area's...

I am not one of those parents who wants to invade my teenagers' privacy and spy on their MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, or other social media sites. But I do want them and other teens and young adults...

A Federal Appellate Court ruled that a veteran did not have a cause of action for defamation against documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for using footage of the veteran's television interview in the movie Fahrenheit 9/11. The veteran, who lost both of his arms after a helicopter tire exploded while he was serving in Iraq, had been interviewed by Peter Jennings of ABC News while he was being...

A Florida jury awarded $5.4 Million to a female employee who filed claims against her employer for sexual harassment and battery. The employee had worked for the employer for fourteen years, during which the employer admittedly sought more than a professional relationship with the employee, and even kissed her on the lips at a public function. The employee also alleged that the employer had...

Age discrimination is a hot topic these days, with several cases pending for decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protects employees age 40 and older from discrimination in employment based on age. Age discrimination can include discrimination in hiring, promotion, pay, benefits, and discharge. The Act also protects against retaliation for...

The First Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a public employee's sexual harassment lawsuit claiming that her supervisor created a hostile work environment by staring at her chest. The employee also claimed that the supervisor, the Town Administrator, retaliated against her by transferring her to another job after she complained to the Town Board. The decision of the Court of Appeals appears to...

The former head of a local Boys & Girls Club filed a "retaliation" lawsuit alleging that she was wrongfully terminated after reporting that the organization had inflated the number of children enrolled in its programs in order to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government. All federal employment statutes contain an anti-retaliation provision that is designed to protect...

For generations, the hourly billing business model for law firms has forced plaintiffs involved in commercial litigation to pay attorneys by the hour regardless of the outcome of the litigation. A better business model for plaintiffs seeking to hire counsel to initiate business litigation may involve contingency fees, fixed legal fee pricing or a combination of a diminished hourly rate and a...

Even in 2008, sexual assault continues to haunt the workplace. Since 1964, when sex and gender based harassment were outlawed with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, some male employers and supervisors have continued to use the workplace as a trolling ground for sexual gratification. More often than not, this is much, much more than about sex - it's about raw power. When an employer...

Lockheed Martin Corporation has agreed to pay a former African American employee $2.5 million to settle a racial discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission. The former employee, a 45 year old aviation electrician, said he was called racial slurs and threatened by four co-workers and a supervisor between 1999 and 2001. When he complained about how the...

The Seventh amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, "In suits at common law...the right to trial by jury shall be preserved." This right has been under attack by so-called tort reformers who want to preserve the right to trial for corporations while restricting it for citizens. One tactic of the tort reform movement has been to devise talking points to scare the public about...

A Florida jury found that Merrill Lynch took advantage of New Jersey philanthropist George Rothman and his wife. Both Rothmans were declared mentally incompetent in 1999. According to a lawyer for the Rothman family, Merrill Lynch took advantage of the couple's deteriorating mental condition to shift their money into investments that would pay higher commissions. The lawsuit alleged that a...