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		<title>No Claim Against Counselor for Batterers&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A defendant charged with assault and battery of his stepdaughter and ordered to participate in a Batterers Intervention Program has not stated Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection claims against the counselor in private practice who offers counseling in the program to fulfill the court order; the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court says the counselor was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Appeal Advice Was ‘Ineffective Assistance’&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<title>Employment Discrimination &#8211; Sex &#8211; Affirmative Defense &#8211; Twiqbal Standard&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who alleges gender discrimination in her discharge from her job as a milker at defendant dairy succeeds in striking affirmative defenses pleaded by employer that do not meet the pleading standard under Twombly and Iqbal. Defendants asserted 18 “defenses,” and plaintiff seeks to have most of them stricken pursuant to FRCP 12(f) on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiff can take deposition, though deadline passed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A personal injury plaintiff gets to take videotaped trial depositions of his medical experts, even though a discovery cutoff has passed, under a ruling last month by a federal judge in Harrisonburg. The opinion by U.S. Magistrate Judge James G. Welsh comes in a Western District diversity case, Lucas v. Pactive Corp. (VLW 009-3-689). The [...]]]></description>
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