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Court Dismisses Tortious Interference with Contract Claim Because It Only Alleged a Decrease in Business
In Signature Flight Support Corporation v. Landown Aviation Limited Partnership, the U.S. District Court dismissed the plaintiff’s tortious interference with contract because the plaintiff failed to allege an “intentional interference of contract inducing or causing a breach or termination…
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Subtle Pleading Difference Allows Claim for Intentional Interference with Business Expectancy to Go Forward
Judge James C. Cacheris’ most recent opinion in Signature Flight Support Corporation v. Landown Aviation Limited Partnership, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1938 (E.D. Va. Jan. 13, 2009), is a good illustration of how subtle shifts in the way a …
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Court Sanctions Defendant Corporation for Issuing a Misleading Press Release
In litigating corporate crisis cases, a public relations strategy is often as an essential component as the litigation itself. That is because the company’s reputation may be so adversely affected during the litigation that the survival of the company or …
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Sues Hilton Hotels Corporation
For an excellent example of the high-stakes nature of unfair business practices cases, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (“Starwood”) sued Hilton Hotels Corporation (“Hilton”) and several former Starwood employees on April 16, 2009. The allegations, if proven, are remarkable.…
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Court Grants-in-part and Denies-in-part Injunction Request Based on Licensing Agreement
In an easy-to-read and short opinion, the trial judge in TCC Sports, LLC v. Sports Group, Ltd., Case No. 47397 in the Circuit Court of Loudon County, Virginia, granted in part the injunction petition filed by TCC Sports, as the …
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The Rough-and-Tumble Business World
Laws are designed to control, but not displace, the competitive marketplace. Correspondingly, most loss economic opportunities do not provide the losing party with a legal remedy. Take, for example, the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling in Williams v. Dominion Technology Partners, …
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Competitor Raids Company’s Computer Data: Passwords Are Not Trade Secrets
Your company operates a website that provides data to paid subscribers that access your website through individual passwords. Your database is so successful that one of your former clients, which is also in a similar business, offers to buy it. …
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Virginia Supreme Court Overturns Virginia’s Anti-Spamming Law
In a rare move, the Supreme Court of Virginia withdrew its prior opinion in Jaynes v. Commonwealth, issued on February 29, 2008, and effectively reversed itself in a new opinion issued on September 12, 2008. The new opinion can …
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Three Bad Acts Do Not a Conspiracy Make
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, in Schlegel v. Bank of America, rejected a Virginia business conspiracy claim because “but for” allegations are insufficient to prove a conspiracy. In Schlegel, the plaintiff alleged that one of …
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Spammer to the Slammer – Unfair Business of Spamming Results in Jail Sentence
This post was based on the Virginia Supreme Court’s opinion rendered February 29, 2008. That opinion was subsequently withdrawn and a new opinion was issued on September 12, 2008. The post below was edited to remove the link to the …
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