SLANDER claims improperly dismissed without factual record to determine Civil Service Reform Act preemption of state tort claims alleging false sexual assault assertions by VA union officials… Menahan reversed. [Read more…]
Post-judgment interest, accrual during appeal
POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST continued to accrue on paid $223,485.12 employment contract judgment during stay pending appeal regardless of who appealed first or who requested stay or cross-appealed… Kutzman reversed. [Read more…]
Employment contract, $220,000 verdict, nurse
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT: $220,000 verdict for nurse whose contract for new job was pulled based on opinion of former co-worker that she would not be a good fit affirmed over appeal issues by both sides… Kutzman affirmed. [Read more…]
Order of protection, feuding cousins
ORDER OF PROTECTION properly granted for 2 years to one cousin against another following disputed who-threatened-whom first altercation. . . Olson affirmed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]
$220,000 verdict, nurse, contract for new job pulled
VERDICT: $220,000, nurse whose contract for new job was pulled because of false malicious gossip by former co-worker. [Read more…]
Supervisory control, employment bad faith
SUPERVISORY CONTROL of Kutzman denied in employment contract case. . . order. [Read more…]
Wrongful discharge, employment offer withdrawal
WRONGFUL DISCHARGE: Employment offer was executory contract, no employment relationship at time it was rescinded, breach of contract applies, not WDA… Kutzman affirmed on supervisory control… order. [Read more…]
Right to know, attorney fees, rehearing denied
RIGHT TO KNOW: Rehearing denied of opinion holding that fees from union objecting to disclosure of jailer settlement were properly denied… (order). [Read more…]
Right to know, request for fees from union
RIGHT TO KNOW: Fees from union objecting to disclosure of jailer termination settlement properly denied because it is not public body or governmental agency… Neill affirmed (other grounds). [Read more…]
Right to know, inter-county standing, settlement
RIGHT TO KNOW: Resident of one county has standing to bring claim to see another county’s settlement agreement (1st impression)… Neill reversed. [Read more…]