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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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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>CSX Did Not Spell Out Carmack Limitation&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rail carrier CSX Transportation Inc. is liable for the full $550,000 in damage to a $1.3 million electrical transformer shipped from St. Louis to Pittsburgh, and the district court erred in holding that the parties had limited CSX’s potential liability in the bill of lading to $25,000; the 4th Circuit says the parties did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disabled-Worker Contract FCA Claims Dismissed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses relator’s remaining False Claims Act counts against alleged coconspirators who purportedly defrauded the government on contracts to employ severely disabled workers, in the wake of a government settlement with relator on his FCA claims alleging his former employer, the National Center for Employment of the Disabled, unlawfully retaliated against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Job Offer Not FCRA Violation&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/05/lack-of-job-offer-not-fcra-violation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A defendant government contractor for the Defense Intelligence Agency wins summary judgment in this suit filed by an applicant for a job as a DIA linguist who alleges the contractor violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it did not hire him after he failed to provide a letter indicating his mortgage account was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late-Filed Social Security Case Dismissed&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/05/late-filed-social-security-case-dismissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge John A. Gibney Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Social Security claimant had no credible reasons for missing the extended deadline to file his civil suit challenging a denial of benefits, and the Richmond U.S. District Court denies his request for relief. The court’s ultimate decision has nothing to do with claimant’s medical conditions or the Social Security Administration’s view of those conditions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop OK for Driving on Highway Fog Lines&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/05/stop-ok-for-driving-on-highway-fog-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/05/stop-ok-for-driving-on-highway-fog-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Code backs a Fort Lee police officer’s view that a driver violates Virginia’s “single lane of travel” statute if he drives on, but not over, a highway boundary line, and a Richmond U.S. District Magistrate Judge denies defendant’s motion to suppress in this DUI prosecution. In addition to defendant having failed to maintain [...]]]></description>
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