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		<title>Funeral Attendee Not VFW Agent&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/14/funeral-attendee-not-vfw-agent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiffs have not shown that an individual defendant was acting as an agent of the local or national Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations when he attended funerals, and the Wise County Circuit Court dismisses plaintiffs’ complaint on defendants’ plea in bar. The party asserting a plea in bar bears the burden of proof on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery Ordered for Tax Records&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/08/discovery-ordered-for-tax-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In plaintiff mining company’s fraud action against defendant, from whom plaintiff purchased a surface coal mine and quarry in Dickenson County in 2010, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies defendant’s objections to the magistrate judge’s discovery order requiring defendant to produce copies of tax records and accounting of the expenditure of the $5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defamation Claim Works Without ‘Exact Words’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/08/defamation-claim-works-without-exact-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Norman K. Moon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former cashier for Wal-Mart may sue for malicious prosecution based on her claim that her actions in applying “price match” discounts conformed to Wal-Mart’s policies and practices at the Lexington store and Wal-Mart had no basis for reporting her alleged embezzlement to police; the Lynchburg U.S. District Court also says plaintiff’s defamation claim under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Res Ipsa Loquitur Claim for Elevator Drop&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/08/no-res-ipsa-loquitur-claim-for-elevator-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:07:49 +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[A Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses a negligence claim filed by a woman who was injured when she stepped into an elevator on the 12th floor of the tower at One Commerce Place in Norfolk, and was injured when the elevator suddenly and violently dropped a number of floors; this court will not extend Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents Have no Claim for CPS Inquiry&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/08/parents-have-no-claim-for-cps-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parents of a 14-month-old daughter who did not promptly seek medical attention when the child suffered a second-degree burn to her shin as her father held her and her twin sister while riding an all-terrain vehicle, lose their suit alleging malicious prosecution and due process violations arising from their investigation by child protective services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No FTCA Claim for Foot Injury by Mail Carrier&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/16/no-ftca-claim-for-foot-injury-by-mail-carrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Jackson L. Kiser]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a one-day bench trial, a Danville U.S. District Court finds that plaintiff has “failed to establish a coherent recitation” of an alleged accident in which a U.S. Postal Service rural mail carrier allegedly ran over plaintiff’s foot in 2004 when plaintiff was nine years old, and the court enters judgment for defendant in plaintiff’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defamation Claim Against FBI Agent Dismissed&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/01/defamation-claim-against-fbi-agent-dismissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A defendant FBI agent acted within the scope of her employment in reporting alleged sexual harassment by plaintiff FBI agent, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court accepts the government’s certification of scope of employment and dismisses a defamation action filed by the plaintiff agent who was disciplined for the alleged harassment, as the Federal Tort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contractor Has Viable Defamation Claim&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/05/contractor-has-viable-defamation-claim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff contractor may sue a competitor for defamation for asserting to plaintiff’s client that the contractor told the competitor he was going to “screw” the client, just like he did a prior client; the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses the trial court’s dismissal of the claim as based on “opinion,” and says whether the competitor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Partner Has Claims for Fraud, Tortious Interference&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/04/former-partner-has-claims-for-fraud-tortious-interference/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/04/former-partner-has-claims-for-fraud-tortious-interference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:49:13 +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 plaintiff who had a long-term romantic relationship and a business partnership with defendant, managing a Nelson County horse farm and breeding operation, can sue defendant for fraudulent inducement in obtaining her signature on a Second Agreement in which he allegedly said he was single although he had married a woman in Florida in 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tort reform deal launched in House&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/24/tort-reform-deal-leaves-both-sides-claiming-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/24/tort-reform-deal-leaves-both-sides-claiming-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia tort reform package has been launched from a House of Delegates subcommittee after trial lawyers and business groups hammered out a compromise on five key bills. Separately, the bills may look like so much tinkering around the edges of tort reform. But taken together, they recalibrate personal injury practice in Virginia. Given the [...]]]></description>
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