Robert R. Vieth

Experience

Real Estate Disputes

• Lord & Taylor v. Tysons Corner Holdings (Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia). Defended shopping center owner against anchor tenant alleging that owner’s redevelopment plan violated lease covenants.
• AboveNet v. 1807 Faraday Court (U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia; Fourth Circuit). Dispute regarding purchase option in lease and entitlement to escrowed funds.
• Northern Virginia Community Hospital v. Board of Supervisors (Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia). Land-use dispute regarding proposed hospital.
• Dowdey v. District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (D.C. Superior Court; D.C. Court of Appeals). Dispute regarding doctrine of lis pendens and lien on real property
• Arrowhead v. General Dynamics (Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia). Dispute regarding formation of sub-lease.
• SMII Fairfax, LLC v. Himes Associates, Ltd. (Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia). Dispute regarding lease option.

 Securities and Corporate Governance

• Glaser v. Enzo Biochem (U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia; Fourth Circuit). Defense of securities fraud claims.
• In re Cysive (Delaware Chancery Court). Defense of stockholder challenge to a “going private” merger.
• Ballenger v. Applied Digital Solutions (U.S. District Court of Delaware; Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia). Defense of federal securities and common-law claims.
• Hewlett v. Hewlett-Packard (Delaware Chancery Court), Member of team representing Walter Hewlett in challenge to Hewlett-Packard merger with Compaq.
• Cablevision Systems Corporation v. At Home Corporation (Delaware Chancery Court). Litigation involving corporate governance issues.
• Sandberg v. First American Bankshares (U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia; Fourth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court). Member of defense team for bank directors charged with breach of federal securities laws and fiduciary duties.
• Klaff v. Reliacast (Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia). Defense of claims by company founder against directors and investors regarding recapitalization of company stock.

Appeals

• Yousuf v. Samantar (Fourth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court). Controversy regarding scope of immunity under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
• Yousuf v. Samantar (D.C. Circuit). Holding that agencies of the federal government are subject to federal court subpoenas in private civil litigation.
• Glaser v. Enzo Biochem, Inc. (Fourth Circuit). Applying doctrine of loss causation to securities fraud suit.
• AboveNet v. 1807 Faraday Court (Fourth Circuit). Issues surrounding escrow and purchase option under a real estate lease.
• Schnare v. Ziessow (Fourth Circuit). Defamation action regarding magazine articles
• ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities (Fourth Circuit). Copyright issues under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
• Redevelopment Land Agency v. Dowdey (D.C. Superior Court). Issues surrounding attorney’s lien on real property and doctrine of lis pendens.
• Hagan v. McNallen (Fourth Circuit). Issues surrounding res judicata and dischargability of punitive damages award against debtor in bankruptcy.
• In re Dameron (Fourth Circuit). Issues surrounding conflicting creditor claims to escrowed funds based on defalcations of real estate settlement agent.
• Corner Associates v. W.R. Grace (Fourth Circuit). Issues surrounding discharge of a guarantor of a lease.
• Jeld-Wen v. Gamble (Virginia). Holding that a window screen manufacturer has no duty to construct screen as a body restraint that prevents a child from falling out of window.
• Alevromagiros v. Hechinger (Fourth Circuit). Issues regarding the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability case.
• NAJLA Associates v. William L. Griffith & Co. (Virginia). Issues relating to the recoverability of consequential damages for breach of contract.

 Other

• i2 Group v. Palantir Technologies, Inc. (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia).  Prosecuted claims for trade secret theft, RICO and infringement.
• Schnare v. Ziessow (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; Fourth Circuit). Defamation action.
• Yousuf v. Samantar/Jane Doe v. Yusuf Abdi Ali (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; Fourth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court). Prosecution of claims for human rights violations committed by former members of the military regime in Somalia.
• Orbital Sciences Corp. V. General Dynamics (Delaware Chancery Court).  Dispute over profit­ability of ongoing satellite construction contract acquired by purchaser of operating business.
• DeKort v. Integrated Coast Guard Systems (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas).  Defended government contractor in a whistle-blower case under the False Claims Act.
• Micromet AG v. Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).  Dispute regarding collaboration agreement for the development of cancer-fighting human antibody.
• AL Solutions v. Jamegy (Supreme Court of New York County, New York).  Defended the seller of a business in a case filed by the buyer alleging breach of contract and fraud
• Doyle and Hans v. FBR Capital Markets (FINRA arbitration).  Prosecuted claims for commissions by brokers against former employer.
• Freewebs, Inc. and Social Gaming Network v. David Maestri and Psycho Monkey, Inc. (Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland; Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco).  Dispute regarding ownership and intellectual property rights to online, multiplayer game.
• Oxford Health Plans, Inc. v. Coordinated Care Solutions IPA, Inc. Dispute regarding managed healthcare services contract, in arbitration.
• Buchheit v. Blue Ridge Networks (Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia).  Dispute over sales commissions.
• ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland; Fourth Circuit).  Copyright infringement action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act involving images posted to the web.

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