High court can settle circuit split over nursing home arbitration 
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Published: September 27, 2010
Tags: ADR, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
The fight over nursing home arbitration agreements, percolating through Virginia circuit courts for the last five years, has reached the Supreme Court of Virginia.
A split in Virginia circuit courts usually gets the high court’s attention.
Looking to his own case files, Alexandria lawyer Gerald F. Ragland Jr. described a virtual “east-west” split in Virginia over the ...
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