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		<title>Contaminated Steroid Cases Go Back to State Court&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke U.S. District Court remands to state court multiple suits against defendant physicians, a corporation and a pain-management clinic alleging defendants acted negligently, fraudulently and in violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by obtaining a contaminated injectable steroid from the New England Compounding Center and administering it to patients who contracted fungal meningitis. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contaminated Steroid Case Remanded to State Court&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke U.S. District Court remands to state court an estate’s suit against defendant physicians, a corporation and a pain-management clinic alleging defendants acted negligently, fraudulently and in violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by obtaining a contaminated injectable steroid from the New England Compounding Center and administering it to decedent, who died from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analogue Act Upheld for ‘Bath Salts’ Sale&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A defendant cannot win judgment of acquittal after a jury verdict finding him guilty of conspiracy and distribution of “bath salts” – controlled substance analogues for human consumption – in violation of the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986; the Charlottesville U.S. District Court rejects defendant’s challenges to 1) the constitutionality of the Analogue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrongful Death Suit Remanded&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court remands to state court plaintiff administrator’s wrongful death suit against a health and rehabilitation center. Because plaintiff is a citizen of Virginia, it is now clear that there is no longer complete diversity between plaintiff and each defendant in this case and thus this court no longer has [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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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>Plea Deal Claim Gets Court Hearing&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A petitioner who says his lawyer failed to communicate an earlier, more favorable plea deal from the prosecution has stated a colorable Sixth Amendment claim, and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court will hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner’s motion for post-conviction relief. The government avers that it made two formal plea offers in petitioner’s case. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Jurisdiction from Kickstarter Donors&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/03/no-jurisdiction-from-kickstarter-donors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although defendant JoeyBra LLC received three donations from Virginia donors on Kickstarter .com, and shipped its pocketed-bra product to Virginia donors, the Charlottesville U.S. District Court nevertheless does not have personal jurisdiction over the two individual defendants in this patent infringement suit, and the court dismisses the two defendants. Plaintiff filed this patent infringement case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contract Assignee May Sue for Breach&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/03/contract-assignee-may-sue-for-breach/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/03/contract-assignee-may-sue-for-breach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Charlottesville U.S. District Court says plaintiff building contractor, who was assigned a contract for construction of an office for an auto body shop in Culpeper, may sue defendant North Carolina company, for breach of contract based on alleged faulty workmanship that resulted in water damage and mold problems that required the contractor to compensate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoner Protests Forcible Removal to Cell&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/03/prisoner-protests-forcible-removal-to-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff inmate at U.S. Penitentiary Lee has not stated claims for excessive force and deliberate indifference to his serious needs, based on allegations that defendant correctional officers picked him up to take him to a new cell during cell rotation, after plaintiff slumped on the floor and refused to move, and the Roanoke U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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