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Type of case: Trade secrets Court: U.S. District Court, Richmond Attorneys: Brian C. Riopelle and Rodney A. Satterwhite, Richmond; Michael J. Songer, Washington; et al. Summary: Chemical giant DuPont won the largest verdict ever in Virginia after an eight-week trial ...

A federal judge in Richmond last week allowed three Republican presidential hopefuls to join Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ballot access law. U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. granted a motion by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, ...

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said last Tuesday that he plans to cast a tie-breaking vote in the state Senate in the upcoming session except in certain cases, giving the Republicans a controlling majority in the 40-member chamber that is evenly ...

Tagged with: General Assembly

On Dec. 16, a Virginia State Bar Third District – Section II Subcommittee issued a public reprimand with terms to Yvonne Cochran-Morton of Richmond for violating a professional rule that governs responsibilities regarding nonlawyer assistants. This discipline was an agreed ...

(AP) Legislators representing districts that encircle a uranium deposit in Southside Virginia are asking their colleagues to abandon any effort in the 2012 session to end the state’s 30-year ban on mining the radioactive ore. They said in a letter ...

Tagged with: Environmental General Assembly

Rebecca B. Connelly – the standing Chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee in the Western District – has been selected as a U.S. bankruptcy judge by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Connelly will succeed Bankruptcy Judge Ross W. Krumm as ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy

(AP) Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic’s hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world’s most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversary of ...

Tagged with: Admiralty Federal Courts Judge Rebecca Beach Smith

The Appalachian School of Law has appointed LSU law Prof. Lucy McGough as its eighth dean. McGough will succeed Clinton Shinn who returns to teaching as of June 30. McGough has been on the Louisiana State faculty for more than ...

Tagged with: Law Schools

Editor’s note: A few cases from 2011 caught our attention, but didn’t quite meet the criteria we use for our list of top state jury verdicts. SunTrust Mortgage insurance suit $40 Million A federal judge in Richmond awarded nearly $40 ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Verdicts

Although defendant restaurant owner says plaintiff, who alleges he cracked a porcelain crown while eating at defendant’s restaurant, will wind up with better teeth than he had before the incident, a Norfolk Circuit Court says that’s not a reason to ...

Tagged with: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts