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A Virginia circuit court vacated its order that a divorced couple couldn’t partition their frozen embryos under Code § 8.01-93, analyzing more than 100 years ...
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‘Goods or Chattels’: Divorced couple’s frozen embryos can be partitioned
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Company liable for tainted eyewash
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‘Go To Lawyers’ for business litigation announced
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‘Nondelegable’: Wife won’t face housing bias claims alone
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Race bias suit against school board proceeds
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Livestreaming police stop constitutionally protected
News in Brief
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Otieno family attorneys push back against officers’ defense
As a video was released publicly this week showing sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinning Irvo Otieno to the floor, attorneys ...
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New Fourth Circuit Clerk of Court named
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Bar seeks comment on proposed ethics opinion
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Teacher shot by 6-year-old describes challenging recovery
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Prosecutor to release video of death of man in custody
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13-year-old charged with suffocation death of sibling, 4
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Virginia deputies charged in man’s death at mental hospital
Opinion Digests
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Delay fatal to motion to compel arbitration
Where defendants both knew of the right to arbitrate and acted inconsistently with that right during this litigation, their motion to compel arbitration was denied. ...
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Deference to Department of Labor interpretation was proper
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Personal injury suit returned to circuit court
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Attorneys’ fees awarded to City of Norfolk
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Man’s suit against ex-wife’s attorney dismissed
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Claims narrowed in detainee’s suit
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No coverage for COVID business losses
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No jurisdiction to rule on attorney ethics complaint
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No long-arm jurisdiction in medical malpractice case
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Juror was properly struck for cause
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Child care center site plan correctly approved
Verdicts & Settlements
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Man sustained injuries after 15-foot fall from lift — $2.6M settlement
Type of action: Personal injury Injuries alleged: Spinal cord injury, incomplete quadriplegia, fractured vertebrae, a large scalp laceration, concussion, loss of consciousness and left fibular ...
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Two killed after tractor-trailer crashed into stopped vehicles — $1.237,500 settlement
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Patient fractured femur in hospital fall — $375,000 settlement
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Physician not negligent in diagnosing man’s brain injury — Defense verdict
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Defense verdict reached in suit against emergency physician
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Man struck by city vehicle while crossing street — $5M settlement
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Defense verdict reached in $2.5M suit over staph infection — Defense verdict
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Hotel allegedly failed to call timely medical assistance — $1.5M settlement
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Plaintiff struck by box, fell into glass door — $1.5M settlement
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Pregnant woman injured after defendant ran stop sign — $140,000 settlement
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School bus rear-ended van, injuring passenger — $1.6M settlement
Viewpoint
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The ever-evolving Fourth Circuit
In April 1865, as Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army made their way into the Confederate capital of Richmond, fleeing rebel soldiers set fire ...
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Federal protections for pregnant, nursing employees coming
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It’s time for employers to embrace the ‘Big Quit’ and adapt
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Tell the whole truth? I’ll do better than that
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Meaning of silence: negative patent claim limitations
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3D printing: New frontier in potential product liability claims
