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Editors' Picks
- Negative connotation: Court won’t ‘oust’ ex-school official’s defamation claim
- Court rejects request for accounting from attorney
- No civil penalties for public weeds
- Supreme Court tosses $1.6M jury verdict after jury instruction wrongly refused
- Friendly competition: Legal Food Frenzy returns for 18th year
- Court must reassess damages on remand
News in Brief
- CPF Board pays $182K to reimburse clients
- Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners
- Jury at Abu Ghraib civil trial might not be able to reach verdict, judge says
- Life sentence for gang member who turned northern Virginia into ‘hunting ground’
- West Virginia’s, North Carolina’s transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule
- Former Virginia hospital medical director acquitted of sexually abusing ex-patients
Opinion Digests
- Arbitration: ‘Candy Crush’ lawsuit headed to arbitration
- Constitutional: Lawsuit challenging Virginia broadband statute dismissed
- Consumer Protection: Mercedes-Benz fails to dismiss Lemon Law suit
- Employment: Suit against federal agency transferred to Virginia
- Employment: Inova prevails in COVID-19 vaccination lawsuit
- Evidence: Witnesses not required to travel for depositions
- Intellectual Property: Court resolves nutritional supplement trademark dispute
- Employment: Virginia Wage Payment Act doesn’t apply to PTO
- Intellectual Property: Fraudulent trademark procurement counterclaim dismissed
- Landlord and Tenant: Tenant’s retaliation claim dismissed
- Negligence: Cancer patient waited too long before filing suit
- Bankruptcy: Discharge denied because of material misstatements
- Criminal: Positive drug tests violate defendant’s condition of probation
- Civil Practice: Plaintiff waited too long before seeking attorneys’ fees
Verdicts & Settlements
- Man run over, killed while performing bridge repairs — $325,000 settlement
- Nurse unable to return to work after rollover crash — $3.5M verdict
- 4-year-old child in daycare assaulted by teacher — $550,000 settlement
- Patient sustained nerve injury after oral surgery — $1M settlement
- Plaintiff burned in flash fire while cleaning engine — $23M settlement
- Motorcyclist’s leg partially amputated in collision — $2M settlement
- Speeding vehicle struck, pushed truck into plaintiff — $1M settlement
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Hall of Fame
May 23rd, 2024 | 5:30 PM
Leaders in the Law/ Up and Coming Lawyers
October 22nd, 2024 | 12:00 AM