25 results for 'judge:"Bates"'.
J. Bates allows a Department of Homeland Security employee’s race and sex discrimination and hostile work environments claim to proceed, but denies his other retaliation and disability discrimination claims. He was moved from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore after he had an “altercation” with his supervisor.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv3548, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Government, Employment Retaliation
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J. Bates grants a bank's motion to dismiss a Slovenian medical equipment company's action arising from $590,000 in wire transfers from Ukrainian businesses it never received. The company's conversion and unjust enrichment claims are precluded by the Uniform Commercial Code, and it fails to support its claims for fraud and tortious interference with a business relationship.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: February 9, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv2554, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Fraud, Conversion, Banking / Lending
J. Bates finds that the lower court properly denied defendant's post-conviction motion alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. Even if his counsel had objected to defendant's new girlfriend's testimony that defendant put a gun in her mouth, there is no reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Bates, Filed On: January 23, 2024, Case #: SD37871, Categories: Evidence, Ineffective Assistance, Murder
J. Bates grants a motion to dismiss filed by a Hungarian asset management company, a university and three art museums on a family's action to recover an art collection that was seized during the Holocaust. The family fails to show Germany was responsible for the takings, and, if their predecessors were stateless at the time of the seizure, the family cannot show the state's taking was a violation of the international law of expropriation for jurisdictional purposes.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 1:10cv1261, NOS: Other Personal Property Damage - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Civil Procedure, Property, Immunity
J. Bates finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of murder, robbery and tampering with a motor vehicle. The court did not err by excluding testimony in an offer of proof from a law enforcement witness or by declining to permit defense counsel to show a surveillance vide of the crime during voir dire. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Bates, Filed On: September 19, 2023, Case #: SD37522, Categories: Evidence, Murder, Witnesses
J. Bates denies an injunction to Simon Ateba, a journalist known for his outbursts and shouted questions during White House press conferences, in his case challenging the loss of his on-demand press pass. He fails to show a likelihood of irreparable harm.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: September 6, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv2321, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Communications, Injunction
J. Bates finds for the Navy on a group of Navy Protestant chaplains' action, in which they claim the Navy's use of faith group categories is discriminatory and arbitrary, and that religious bias has affected board selection, among other claims. The chaplains fail to show the statute of limitations should be tolled.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: August 23, 2023, Case #: 1:07mc269, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Constitution, Military
J. Bates finds for a healthcare center on its contract claims related to a hotel's decision to move its gala to other rooms, of which it did not approve. The hotel was contractually required to hold the gala in the agreed-upon room and reassigned the party to other rooms without the center's request.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: August 14, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv784, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Contract
J. Bates denies, in part, the district's motion for summary judgment on an individual's due process claims related to his reincarceration without a hearing for unserved misdemeanor sentences. There is a question of fact whether defendant was prejudiced by the lack of a hearing and, therefore, he can move forward with his procedural due process claim.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: July 25, 2023, Case #: 1:15cv666, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Due Process