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An officer’s illegal seizure of defendant’s wallet during a pat-down after a legal traffic stop did not illegally extend the duration of the stop, the Supreme Court of Virginia says, as police were trying to determine defendant’s identity. The experienced ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Search & Seizure Supreme Court of Virginia

In a discovery dispute in DuPont’s suit against Kolon Industries alleging trade secret misappropriation, theft of confidential business information and conspiracy, a Richmond U.S. District Court says Kolon is entitled to a cover e-mail DuPont in-house counsel sent to an ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A woman convicted of the second-degree murder of her husband is not entitled to a new trial on her claim that evidence discovered after the guilt-determination phase of her original trial would show a new jury that she suffers from ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia

In determining whether defendant is a sexually violent predator under Va. Code § 37.2-900, a trial court did not err, the Virginia Supreme Court says, in refusing to strike the testimony of a mental health expert who relied on a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia

A developer loses his challenge to a Falls Church zoning ordinance that establishes different building height regulations on one-family dwellings in the same zoning district; the ordinance does not violate Va. Code § 15.2-2282, and the Supreme Court of Virginia ...

Tagged with: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Land Use & Zoning Supreme Court of Virginia

In appeals of defense verdicts from a trial arising out of an automobile collision that caused both a personal injury and a fatality, the Supreme Court of Virginia dismisses the appeal of the decedent’s estate because the administrators filed the ...

Tagged with: Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

A friendly game of beer pong that went bad set the stage for a Virginia Supreme Court opinion that an insurance company owes a defense for a Virginia Tech student who was sued over injuries he caused in a 2002 ...

Tagged with: Justice Harry L. Carrico Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia News

The justices of the United States Supreme Court apparently don’t know much about how today’s modern technology works. Lawyers USA had the skinny this past week, in a blog post that has gone viral. Check it out here. Kimberly Atkins, ...

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

A consulting partner’s sale of his interest in a subsidiary of Ernst & Young LLP was a fully taxable event in the year 2000, and the 4th Circuit upholds the government’s demand for repayment of an erroneous tax refund to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge G. Steven Agee Taxation

A developer of multi-family housing sued by disability advocacy groups cannot pursue state law cross-claims for indemnification, negligence and breach of contract against the project architect, because the state law claims are preempted by the federal Fair Housing Act and ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Dennis W. Shedd