A federal judge in Virginia ruled that the state’s human rights act protects employees who oppose their employer’s failure to provide pregnancy-related accommodations to coworkers, rejecting Volvo’s argument that only pregnant workers can assert such rights.
A federal judge in Virginia denied qualified immunity to a police detective who conducted a search of a motorist during a traffic stop, ruling that a jury could find the search exceeded the scope of a permissible Terry frisk.
A federal judge shielded a small-town Virginia police officer from civil-rights liability after she signed a felony arrest warrant outside her jurisdiction, while allowing two state-law malicious prosecution claims against the woman who filed the underlying...
Peter Brake’s employment discrimination lawsuit against Liberty University will proceed on a narrowed set of claims after the court denied the university’s motion to reconsider its prior denial of summary judgment.
Judge Robert S. Ballou of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia has certified a class of approximately 210 employees who claim UVA Health discriminated against them by denying religious exemptions from a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination...
A federal judge held that a male Virginia Tech student's Title IX claim can proceed to trial on evidence that a hearing officer harbored implicit sex-based bias against men during a sexual misconduct disciplinary proceeding.
A federal judge in the Western District of Virginia held that a male Virginia Tech student's Title IX sex-discrimination claim can proceed to trial based on evidence that a hearing officer harbored sex-based bias against men during the student's sexual misc...