ABINGDON, VIRGINIA – Timothy Gerace Sentenced to Ten Years

United States Attorney Anthony P. Giorno announced today that Timothy Gerace was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon after having previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Gerace was the final defendant ... More...    $0 (12-07-2015 - VA)

SD3, LLC and its subsidiary, SawStop, LLC (together, “SawStop”), contend that several major table-saw manufacturers conspired to boycott SawStop’s safety technology and corrupt a private safety-standard-setting process, all with the aim of keeping that technology off the market. Consequently, SawStop sued nearly two dozen saw manufacturers and affiliated entities, alleging that they violated § 1 o... More...    $0 (09-15-2015 - VA)

In early 2010, a group of seven Somalis — including defendants Mohamed Ali Said, Mohamed Abdi Jama, and Abdicasiis Cabaase — boarded a small skiff and entered the Gulf of Aden (in the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa), intending to seize a merchant ship at sea. Their objective was foiled by the British warship HMS Chatham, which was conducting a counter-piracy miss... More...    $0 (08-14-2015 - VA)

David and Robert Donnert, circus performers, horse
trainers, and brothers, commenced this breach-of-contract action
against Feld Entertainment, Inc., which operates the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They alleged that Feld
Entertainment wrongfully terminated two contracts -- an
April 21, 2010 Circus Acts Employment Contract (the “Employment
Contractâ€�) and an... More...    $0 (05-18-2015 - VA)

For the second time in this case, we are presented with the question of whether Appellant Mohamed Ali Samantar enjoys immunity from suit under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 ("TVPA"), see Pub. L. 102-256, 106 Stat. 73 (1992), 28 U.S.C. § 1350 note, and the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), see 28 U.S.C. § 1350. In the previous appeal, we rejected Samantar’s claim to statutory immunity und... More...    $0 (11-02-2012 - VA)

Ulrich Bader filed this petition under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act ("ICARA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601 et seq., seeking the return of his daughter ("C.J.B.") to Germany. Bader alleged that his ex-wife, Sonja Kramer, violated the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of Child Abduction ("Hague Convention"), Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 19 I.L.M. 1501, by taking C.J.B. to li... More...    $0 (04-20-2007 - VA)

Barcelona.com, Inc. ("Bcom, Inc."), a Delaware corporation, commenced this action under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against Excelentisimo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (the City Council of Barcelona, Spain) for a declaratory judgment that Bcom, Inc.'s registration and use of the domain name is not unlawful under the Lanham Act (Chapter 22 of Title 15 of the ... More...    $0 (06-02-2003 - VA)

Yaser Esam Hamdi filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 challenging the lawfulness of his confinement in the Norfolk Naval Brig.1 On this third and latest appeal, the United States challenges the district court's order requiring the production of various materials regarding Hamdi's status as an alleged enemy combatant. The district court certified for appeal the question of whether a declara... More...    $0 (01-14-2003 - VA)

During the technology boom of the late 1990s, Patricia Aboud organized several credit scams to defraud computer equipment suppli-ers. To recover losses resulting from one of these scams, ePlus Tech-nology, Inc. ("ePlus") filed a civil action in the Eastern District of Virginia, asserting that Aboud had violated state tort law and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.... More...    $891423 (12-03-2002 - VA)