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Other large verdicts of note

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: January 9, 2012
Tags: Million-Dollar Verdicts

Editor’s note: A few cases from 2011 caught our attention, but didn’t quite meet the criteria we use for our list of top state jury verdicts. SunTrust Mortgage insurance suit $40 Million A federal judge in Richmond awarded nearly $40 million to SunTrust Mortgage Inc. from a subsidiary of AIG Inc. that insured second mortgages [...]

Full Court Grants Rehearing on Brady Violation

By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 16, 2011
Tags: Criminal, Virginia Court of Appeals

The en banc Court of Appeals grants the commonwealth’s petition for rehearing of the November 8, 2011, divided panel decision reversing and remanding defendant’s jury trial convictions for sex crimes against his five-year old stepdaughter based on the commonwealth’s violating constitutional due process requirements of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), in failing to [...]

July 2011 Virginia Bar Exam Results

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 27, 2011
Tags: Bar passers

Editor’s Note: Below are the names of the successful candidates who sat for the July 2011 Virginia bar examination. Of the 1,513 applicants who took the exam, 1,156 passed, for a pass rate of 76.4 percent. Congratulations! A Mostafa Mohamed Abdelkarim, Fairfax; Stewart Hill Ackerly, Washington; Stephanie Marlo Acree, Williamsburg; Robert Lewis Adair, Lebanon; Isaac [...]

A Message from the President

I am both excited and honored to serve as the first president of the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court. The Inn is named after the Honorable Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, one of the most distinguished intellectual property judges in the country. I am particularly honored [...]

Tort Claims Remanded for Exhaustion

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 15, 2011
Tags: Civil Procedure, Judge Henry E. Hudson, U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Ehe Richmond U.S. District Court grants a federal medical facility’s motion to dismiss and remands a pro se victim’s tort claims to state circuit court; no record existed of an administrative claim required for jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and remand of the remaining state law claims is appropriate. In April 2006, [...]

Last chance to nominate for Leaders in the Law

Last call! The deadline for nominations for the 2011 class of Leaders in the Law is this Friday, August 5, at 5:00 p.m. This program, now in its sixth year, recognizes attorneys and professionals in law-related fields for a significant accomplishment or achievement. We recognize attorneys and professionals in law-related fields who have a significant accomplishment or [...]

Ray v. Allergan Inc.

Type of Case: Product liability Court: U.S. District Court, Richmond Attorneys: Stephen W. Bricker and Christopher L. Anderson, Richmond; Ray C. Chester, Austin, Texas A Vietnam veteran who received a series of Botox injections to treat his writer’s tremor contended that the Botox migrated from the site of the injection and caused an auto-immune disorder [...]

Andrews v. Primus Telecommunications Group

Type of Case: Securities fraud Court: U.S. District Court, Alexandria Attorneys: Bernard J. DiMuro, Alexandria; John Clifford, Washington, DC A federal jury returned compensatory and punitive verdicts totaling about $177 million against various defendants involved in a Virginia-based Internet startup, TutorNet.com Inc. Investors and sales consultants alleged that the defendants had misrepresented its financial circumstances [...]

X-IT Products LLC v. Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc.

Type of case: Patent infringement Court: U.S. District Court, Norfolk Attorney: Robert M. Tata, Norfolk A federal jury in Norfolk found that the defendant had stolen the idea for a home fire-escape ladder from two men who had invented the ladder for a product-development class at Harvard Business School. The trial judge reduced the verdict [...]