A split has developed between District Court judges in the District of Columbia regarding the requirements to plead a count alleging tortious interference with business expectancy. In a post on June 18, 2009, I reported that Judge Ricardo Urbina had...

Does the Virginia Trade Secrets Act preempt all related business tort claims? Not necessarily, according to a recent unfair business practices case from the Eastern District of Virginia. In E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.v. Kolon Industries, Inc., 2009...

The news lately is peppered by the federal governments' (lack of?) regulation of businesses, but how do state statutes and the common law regulate businesses? That is the question addressed in the article The Use of State Statutes and Common Law Tort...

When an unfair business practices case arises, like in other types of cases, a company wants to know as much as possible about the adverse company's prior internal discussions and processes that resulted in the unfair business practice. But lawyers...

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...