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Editors' Picks
- Argument on appeal violated approbate-reprobate doctrine
- Lawyers: first AI fair use case may prove to be outlier
- Million-Dollar-Plus Settlements of 2024
- Prescription drug racketeering class action lawsuit dismissed
- General contractor’s actions asserting indemnification fail
- Names of law enforcement personnel not exempt by FOIA
News in Brief
- SCOTUS refines trustee’s power to claw back tax payments
- U.S. Supreme Court upholds ‘ghost gun’ regulation
- Bar proposes ethics opinion on generative AI
- Alleged leader of MS-13 street gang on the East Coast is arrested in Virginia
- Virginia’s governor is again at odds with Democrats as he vetoes labor and gun reform
- Governor amends Virginia’s budget bill to increase rainy-day reserves over changes in Washington
Opinion Digests
- Domestic Relations: Human embryos aren’t subject to partition under Virginia law
- Arbitration: Change clause renders arbitration agreement illusory
- Arbitration: Dispute over scope of arbitration agreement must be decided by arbitrator
- Civil Rights: Due process suit is reinstated
- Consumer Protection: Tenant sues credit reporting agency for inadequate investigation
- Civil Practice: Court vacates default judgment in trade secrets case
- Employment: Woman alleges supervisor subjected her to hostile work environment
Verdicts & Settlements
- Driver pulls over, struck by truck while he’s standing on ‘shoulder’ — $1,950,160.13 settlement
- Pregnant mother, daughter killed in crash with cop driving 115 mph — $4.5 million settlement
- Delayed evaluation of heart attack symptoms blamed for man’s death — $1.1 million settlement
- Fair worker riding tram fractures leg when brakes suddenly applied — $350,000 settlement
- Couple perishes when car hit by truck entering intersection — $3.3 million settlement
- Virginia man moves to Texas for job, dies in motorcycle accident — $1.6 million settlement
- Patient receives carbon dioxide instead of oxygen, dies days later — $2.35 million settlement
