Abbott Labs agrees to pay $1.5B over Depakote 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 14, 2012
WASHINGTON — Abbott Laboratories has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion over allegations that it promoted the anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
The case includes a criminal fine and forfeiture of $700 million and civil settlements with the federal government and states totaling $800 [...]
Ten Commandments case sent to mediation
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 14, 2012
ROANOKE — A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in a Virginia public high school sent the case into mediation Monday.
Media outlets report that instead of making a ruling, U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski urged both sides to consider whether the display could leave out four commandments that [...]
Mother in child neglect case sentenced to prison
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 14, 2012
MANASSAS — A Northern Virginia woman has been sentenced to serve a year and a half in prison for using drywall to barricade her three young daughters into a room.
Christina Moore of Bristow was given a nine-year sentence in Prince William County on May 3. All but 18 months of the sentence was suspended. She’s [...]
White professor sues ODU, claims racial discrimination
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 14, 2012
NORFOLK — Old Dominion University is being sued by a professor who claims she was denied tenure because she is white.
Patricia Hentosh also claims she was told to leave the university at the end of 2012-2013 academic year.
Hentosh filed her lawsuit in April in federal court in Norfolk. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to require [...]
Batzli honored with VSB ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 30, 2012
Richmond lawyer Terrence R. Batzli is this year’s winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section.
Batzli is president of the Batzli Wood and Stiles law firm, and a lifelong family law practitioner. The award recognizes persons who have demonstrated excellence and integrity, and who have made substantial contributions [...]
Roanoke Bar names two award winners
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 23, 2012
The Roanoke Bar Association has announced that George W. Wooten will receive the 2012 Frank W. “Bo” Rogers, Jr., Lifetime Achievement Award.
This award was established to recognize an outstanding lawyer who embodies the highest tradition of personal and professional excellence in Southwest Virginia and, in doing so, enhances the image and esteem of attorneys [...]
McDonnell to be commencement speaker at UR graduation
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 23, 2012
Gov. Bob McDonnell will give the main commencement address at the University of Richmond on May 6.
McDonnell was sworn in as the 71st governor of the Commonwealth on Jan. 16, 2010, after being elected with nearly 59 percent of the vote and receiving the most votes of any candidate for governor in Virginia history.
The main [...]
Yet another Redskin finds himself in court…
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 23, 2012
BATON ROUGE, La. — Doug Williams, who led the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl win in 1988, is the latest in a long list of former ’Skins to show up in court.
Now the Grambling State University football coach, Williams sued the school April 13 in Louisiana, claiming the school reneged on contract promises [...]
Man gets 12 years for aiding terrorists
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 23, 2012
ALEXANDRIA — An electrician from Northern Virginia who admitted producing an online propaganda video for a Pakistani terrorist organization has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
A federal judge in Alexandria imposed the sentence April 13 for 24-year-old Jubair Ahmad of Woodbridge. Ahmad pleaded guilty to providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani organization that [...]
UVa law librarians are rebuilding Jefferson’s list
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 16, 2012
CHARLOTTESVILLE–University of Virginia law school librarians are trying to restore a collection of rare law books that were selected by Thomas Jefferson for the library.
The library has obtained 317 of the books over the past 40 years and is continuing to search for the remaining 58. Some dated to the 1500s.
Many of the law books [...]
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