A Norfolk federal court has awarded reimbursement for experts’ travel time to depositions, but at a rate that is half the hourly charge for time actually spent in deposition. Senior U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon, who sits in Charlottesville, was called to Norfolk to hear the federal government’s condemnation case involving 1.604 acres in [...]
Experts’ travel costs awarded under new test
July 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Civil Cases, U.S. District Court
Tags:Discovery·Eminent Domain·Experts·Norfolk·Opinions·Real Estate
File pass-off can’t pump fee award
April 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · U.S. District Court
As March Madness wanes, like a hoopster’s fadeaway jumper, indulge us please in one more basketball reference. We can’t let a good one get away. Charlottesville’s U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Waugh Crigler already had decided to award fees to lawyers for Pacel Corporation in Calkins v. Pacel Corp. for its opponent’s violation of federal discovery [...]
Tags:Attorney's fees·Discovery
Game on? Judge not happy over discovery
August 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Judges, Lawyers and Law Firms
Pretrial discovery can be a matter of strategy, and some lawyers even approach it as a game. But one circuit judge in Norfolk isn’t pleased with what he saw as game-playing in a medical-malpractice case. In Oakley v. Warren, Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. reamed both plaintiff’s and defense lawyers, resorting to elementary school terms. [...]
