Gillison v. Lead Express, Inc.

1 Citing case

  1. Edwards v. Schwartz

    378 F. Supp. 3d 468 (W.D. Va. 2019)   Cited 38 times
    Granting motion to dismiss in a case involving a scientific debate over water contamination in Flint, Michigan

    His contention that the defendants, "both individually and acting as conspirators in concert and together ... participated in ... electronically communicating and/or mailing a damaging defamatory and tortious letter and email" to Virginia Tech is factually unsupported. See Gillison v. Lead Express. Inc., No. 3:16CV41, 2018 WL 6537151, at *4 (E.D. Va. Dec. 12, 2018) (citing Machulsky v. HaIl, 210 F.Supp.2d 531, 537 (D.N.J. 2002) for the proposition that "[a]t no point may a plaintiff rely on the bare pleadings alone in order to withstand a defendant's ... motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction" (citation omitted) ). Indeed, Edwards concedes that the Letter only "may have ... been saved on and distributed from other defendants' computers."