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		<title>Virginia Tech president retires, reflects on 2007 massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) — The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement May 14, satisfied he had elevated the university’s reputation and acknowledging that the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history on his campus would be a part of his legacy. Charles Steger, 65, continues to be a central figure and criticized for the way the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of two slain at Va. Tech appeal to justices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys for the families of two Virginia Tech students killed in an April 2007 campus massacre are renewing their bid to put the university&#8217;s president on trial. In a petition for rehearing, the attorneys are seeking a full state Supreme Court hearing on their quest to bring President Charles Steger to trial for negligence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Principals in Virginia Tech lawsuit appeal to justices&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/18/principals-in-virginia-tech-lawsuit-appeal-to-justices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) Attorneys for the parents of two students who were killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre asked Tuesday for a Supreme Court hearing on their request to put Tech’s president on trial for negligence, while the state sought to reverse a jury’s conclusion that the state was negligent for failing to alert students right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Va. Tech verdict likely not the last legal word</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/03/14/jury-finds-virginia-tech-negligent-in-07-shootings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — After a jury concluded Wednesday that Virginia Tech officials were negligent in their actions leading up to the 2007 deadly mass shooting, the state was giving strong signals of appealing the case while the plaintiff’s lawyer highlighted the significance of the case for future claims against state schools. The verdict in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hall: AG should quit Tech shootings case&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/05/05/hall-ag-should-quit-tech-shootings-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 13:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawyer for the families suing Virginia Tech over the April 16 shootings says Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli should step aside from representing the school because of his public comments about the lawsuits. Accusing Cuccinelli of jeopardizing a fair trial, Robert T. Hall is asking Judge William Alexander to disqualify the attorney general’s office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech massacre families establish foundation with settlement money&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/10/04/tech-massacre-families-establish-foundation-with-settlement-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLACKSBURG—The families of the victims and survivors of the April 2007 mass killings at Virginia Tech have created a nonprofit foundation The Virginia Tech Victims Family Outreach Foundation Inc. will provide support to Tech families and survivors and reach out to other families who experience similar losses. The Roanoke Times reported Wednesday the foundation was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech failed to issue timely warning, federal agency says&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/05/24/tech-failed-to-issue-timely-warning-federal-agency-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) The U.S. Department of Education has issued a preliminary finding that Virginia Tech broke federal campus security laws by waiting too long to notify students during the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. Tech disputed the department’s findings in a draft report, saying university officials met standards in effect at the time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negligence &#8211; Sovereign Immunity &#8211; Gross Negligence &#8211; VT Shooting&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administrators of the estates of two Virginia Tech students killed in the mass shooting in April 2007 have stated claims for gross negligence against the commonwealth and against President Charles Steger and former vice president James Hyatt, the only two members of the VT Emergency Policy Group with authority to issue an alert or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top VT officials remain in shootings lawsuit&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/01/18/top-vt-officials-remain-in-shootings-lawsuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ruling by a Montgomery County Circuit Court has set the stage for discovery and trial in the two lawsuits filed in the wake of the deadly 2007 shootings on the Virginia Tech campus. Virginia Tech president Charles Steger and former Executive Vice President James Hyatt remain as defendants in the lawsuits filed by families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Tech student pleads guilty in murder of classmate</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2009/12/28/ex-tech-student-pleads-guilty-in-murder-of-classmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRISTIANSBURG—A former Virginia Tech graduate student pleaded guilty last week to decapitating a classmate, and prosecutors revealed the reason for the campus cafe killing, saying his romantic advances had been rejected. Prosecutors described in detail a heartbroken Haiyang Zhu who had fallen in love with Xin Yang, only to be rebuffed when she told him [...]]]></description>
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