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		<title>SORNA Challenges Miss the Mark&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke U.S. District Court rejects defendant’s jurisdictional and constitutional challenges to a charge that he failed to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250. Among his other challenges, defendant takes issue with the use of all capital letters for his name, which he argues denotes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misstated Arrearage States Claim for Breach&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plaintiff who lost her home to foreclosure states a claim for breach of the note and deed of trust based on her allegation that defendant’s pre-acceleration notice misstated her arrearage, preventing her from bringing her mortgage loan current and avoiding foreclosure; but the Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s remaining claims. In count I, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer Pleads Fifth, Motion in Limine Denied&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this prosecution of a former notary public and court reporter for his alleged role in recording false statements to assist a lawyer under investigation for drug distribution, the Abingdon U.S. District Court denies defendant court reporter’s motion in limine asking the court to find a way for defendant to introduce an alleged exculpatory statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier Must Defend Suit Against Sub&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Glen E. Conrad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CGL carrier has a duty to defend a subcontractor in a suit alleging the sub provided a defective product that caused physical damage to other property, that the plaintiff contractor had to repair, as this is a sufficient allegations to support the possibility of an “occurrence” under the relevant CGL policies, says an Abingdon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TILA, RESPA Claims Can’t Stop Foreclosure&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/11/tila-respa-claims-cant-stop-foreclosure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge John A. Gibney Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pro se plaintiff who defaulted on her mortgage payments cannot forestall foreclosure on her home with allegations that defendants have engaged in unfair and deceptive lending practices in violation of the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses her suit. Plaintiff fails to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contract Dispute Stays with Goods&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert G. Doumar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this contract dispute between a Barbadian dolomite supplier suing a glass manufacturer for refusing to accept or pay for part of a shipment of dolomite from a Spanish quarry, the Norfolk U.S. District Court says jurisdiction would be proper in either of two other federal courts, but defendant manufacturer has failed to meet its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claim for Failed Boat Salvage Dismissed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owner of a fishing boat, the Little Judy, that ran into a rock jetty near the entrance to Little Creek in Norfolk and was destroyed before the owner could comply with a Coast Guard order directing a marine survey prior to removing the vessel, cannot sue the United States for negligent interference with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punitives Claim Survives for Tree-Cutting&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Henry E. Hudson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A property owner who disputed the width of defendant natural gas company’s easement and refused to allow cutting of trees on the property to widen the easement may sue the company for trespass for coming onto the property and performing the work over their objections, and the Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Accident Site Prompts Venue Change&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/11/hotel-accident-site-prompts-venue-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge James R. Spencer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this negligence action filed by a man who uses a motorized wheelchair because of his muscular dystrophy, and who alleges that because defendant hotel provided too few handicapped parking spaces, he had to navigate over a raised concrete lip on his way to the hotel entrance and was thrown from his wheelchair, the Richmond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Due Process Claim from Contraband Cigarette Sting&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/10/no-due-process-claim-from-contraband-cigarette-sting/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/10/no-due-process-claim-from-contraband-cigarette-sting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sale of untaxed cigarettes by government agents during a two-year investigation of trafficking in contraband cigarettes was not so “outrageous” and “shocking” as to violate defendant’s right to due process, and the 4th Circuit affirms his convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 371 and § 2342(a). Significant state-by-state disparities in the amount of taxes levied [...]]]></description>
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