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Circuit Judge William Alexander has denied the state’s motion to overturn jury verdicts in favor of families of students killed in the Virginia Tech shootings, but he reduced the two $4-million awards to just $100,000 each under the Virginia Tort Claims Act. The Roanoke Times reports Alexander announced his decisions after a post-trial hearing Wednesday [...]

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Armed with two $4-million verdicts against the state, lawyers for families of Virginia Tech shooting victims are seeking to avoid the $100,000 cap on recovery under the Virginia Tort Claims Act. Under the law, the cap is raised to the maximum limits of any applicable liability policy, and the families’ lawyers want to explore what [...]

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A discovery dispute has led a judge to split the claims in the two $10-million wrongful death lawsuits arising from the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, according to lawyers in the case. Two sets of allegations were included in the lawsuits filed by families of two students killed in the rampage. The contention that Virginia Tech [...]

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A judge has overturned a jury’s awards totaling $101,000 based on gender discrimination claims against Virginia Tech. Roanoke U.S. District Judge James Turk ordered a new trial holding the trial evidence showed Virginia Tech paid fund-raising employees based on experience rather than gender. The two women plaintiffs both worked at Tech’s Office of University Development [...]

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The judge hearing two wrongful death lawsuits arising from the Virginia Tech shootings has denied a motion to kick the attorney general out of the case. Robert Hall, lawyer for the families of two shooting victims, argued the office of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli should be disqualified for his public criticism of the plaintiffs’ claims. [...]

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A Roanoke federal jury has determined Virginia Tech discriminated in salaries for two women employees of its fund raising office. The jury returned damages awards totaling $101,000 on Thursday. The amounts could be doubled under the federal Equal Pay Act. The two plaintiffs also are asking for an award of attorneys’ fees, reports The Roanoke [...]

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The Virginia Tech basketball coach has more to worry about than his team’s snub by the NCAA. A $2.5-million lawsuit filed last month names Greenberg and his “Seth Greenberg Basketball Camp” at Virginia Tech. The suit claims 15-year-old Austin Schuler of Augusta County was severely injured when his head hit a cinder block wall around [...]

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Friday’s decision by Roanoke U.S. District Judge James Turk means no delay for the April 11 scheduled trial on claims Virginia Tech paid lower salaries to women at the school’s fund raising office. Virginia Tech had asked Turk to combine that case, involving three former employees, with a separate lawsuit involving claims of sexual harassment [...]

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Two $10-million wrongful death lawsuits against Virginia Tech officials arising from the 2007 campus shootings have been scheduled for a nine-day trial beginning Sept. 26. The cases, brought by the only victims of the massacre who did not accept state settlement deals, are being heard in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Franklin County Judge William [...]

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Virginia Tech president Charles Steger and former Executive Vice-President James Hyatt remain as defendants in the two lawsuits filed by families of students killed in the 2007 shootings at the school. Also remaining in the case are the former head of the school’s counseling center and two staff members.  Other defendants were dismissed in a [...]

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