In a newly released opinion, the Virginia Supreme Court reaffirmed the Virginia rule that a fraud claim cannot be based upon one contracting party’s false statements to another contracting party in absence of an independent common law duty. The opinion …

A circuit court in Virginia was faced with the question of whether a Limited Liability Company can sue one of its three Members when, under the LLC’s Operating Agreement, the decision to file a law suit required that all three …

Cvent, Inc. filed an intellectual property law suit against EventBrite, alleging multiple unfair business practices claims, including: (1) violation of Virginia’s business conspiracy statute; (2) copyright infringement and violating the Lanham Act governing trademarks; (3) violation of the U.S. Computer …

In a government contractor dispute between prime and subcontractor companies, a jury empanelled in the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia found that the prime contractor racially discriminated against the subcontractor, tortiously interfered with the subcontractor’s employee contracts, …

Virginia’s Attorney General is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the verdict against spammer, Jeremy Jaynes, and reverse the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision rendering unconstitutional Virginia’s anti-spam statute. Virginia’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme …

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…

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 …

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 …

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.…

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 …