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Editors' Picks
- ‘We need the cases’: Virginia’s high court issuing fewer opinions
- Attorney’s conduct results in mistrial
- Wine shipper must have separate licenses for each shipping location
- Mandatory pre-dispute arbitration: Have its best days passed?
- New date set for state bar’s annual meeting
- ‘Akin to an asset’: Wrongful death payments not income for child support
News in Brief
- Jury to decide fate of delivery driver who shot YouTube prankster following him
- Virginia Democrats warn Republicans will ban abortion; GOP says their rhetoric is fearmongering
- YouTube prankster says he had no idea he was scaring man who shot him
- Bar seeking volunteers for disciplinary board
- New date set for state bar’s annual meeting
- Retiring Del. Bell joins Office of the Attorney General
Opinion Digests
- Company owner dodges breach of contract suit
- Employee’s own allegations doom minimum wage claim
- Federal government defeats former employee’s claims
- Principal wasn’t entitled to exclusively remote work
- USPTO properly redacted info in responsive documents
- Untimely lawsuit allowed to proceed
- Engineering consultant dismissed from suit
- Rule 60 motion was filed too late
- Nonprofit directors immune from ex-employees’ claims
- City, employees immune from whistleblower claims
- Experts excluded in condemnation damages suit
- Judgment entered against company for horse’s death
- Resentencing ordered in probation violation case
- Amended traffic stop statute not retroactive
Verdicts & Settlements
- Plaintiff injured in crash with oncoming vehicle — $235,000 settlement
- Driver killed in rear-end collision with tractor-trailer — $1.5M settlement
- Man died from pancreatic cancer after delayed response — $1.8M settlement
- Worker fell off roof, rendering him a paraplegic — $1.25M settlement
- Driver sustained permanent hearing loss after traffic collision — $240,000 settlement
- Plaintiff suffered concussion in rear-end collision — $81,000 verdict
- Builder misrepresented home status to buyers — $675,000 verdict
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