Despite the fact that Arlington County is a bustling urban county, located across a river from Washington, D.C., the legal culture has a small-town feel. Prosecutors and active criminal defense attorneys are relatively few in number here. They have an adversarial relationship in court, as they must, but tend to respect each other and even like each other. It is not uncommon for a prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer to argue passionately and aggressively on…
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) gives employees powerful tools to recover unpaid minimum wages and overtime from their employers. Not only can employees sue for double damages, plus attorneys’ fees, but they can sue owners personally and bring their claims as “collective actions” that notify other employees of the claims and enable them to join the lawsuit. In Genesis Systems Corp. v. Symczyk, No. 11–1059 (Apr. 16, 2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled
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A driver for Shuttle Express, the popular transportation service for passengers going in and out of the Baltimore-Washington International Airport, sought to bring a collective action against the Company alleging violation of the Federal Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Relying on the Supreme Court’s April 2011 holding in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the Fourth Circuit foreclosed the driver’s federal lawsuit and compelled arbitration because he signed an arbitration clause in which he waived his right
Arlington Police report the arrest of Kareem Jorif on April 5, 2013 at the Virginia Hospital Center. A verbal altercation escalated. Jorif then pulled a meat cleaver from his waistband, struck the door with it several times, and then threw the knife into the room at the occupants. No one was hurt, but Jorif was charged with 5 counts of Attempted Malicious Wounding. His Preliminary Hearing is set for May 7. Here are the elements
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Kareem Barlow was convicted of Possession of a Firearm as a Convicted Felon in Newport News, Virginia. On appeal his criminal lawyers argued that the “gun” in his possession was not really a gun. It had no barrel and was in an rusty and poor condition. It could not shoot a bullet. (Actual operability of the gun is not a factor for a conviction of this crime; the question was ‘when does a gun stop being