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The 4th Circuit upholds a district court decision striking a North Carolina law requiring physicians to display a sonogram and communicate specific information about fetal development to women seeking abortions, as a violation of the First Amendment. The North Carolina ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A district judge who repeatedly encouraged defendant to accept a plea to additional charges of access-device fraud and aggravated identity theft, and who hinted at a lesser sentence for a plea agreement, committed plain error by impermissibly participating in plea ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

After a lawyer fought for two years against charges of unethical conduct in a domestic violence case, a three-judge panel took 15 minutes to exonerate her this month. The lawyer claimed the ethics charges were the result of overreaching by ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline Virginia State Bar

(AP) A former lacrosse player at the University of Virginia is again seeking a hearing before the state Supreme Court on his conviction of killing his former girlfriend. Last month, the state’s highest court refused to hear the appeal of ...

Plenty of businesses are open or on call around the clock. There’s no particular reason that a bookstore or a dry cleaning business needs to be open all night, but a taxi company, or a towing company, or even a ...

Tagged with: Technology

Hiring an attorney can be a stressful and time-consuming task for people who suddenly find themselves in need of legal representation. The following are my top seven items that I discuss during an interview with a potential client: 1) “There ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Practice Tips

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to provide the results of the VLW 2014 Lawyer to Lawyer Survey. This project provides information about attorneys providing special services and practice options to other attorneys across Virginia. For a fee, participants had the ...

The plaintiff was a 55-year-old nurse who was rear-ended while stopped in traffic. She suffered significant neck injuries, undergoing multiple injections and three separate spine surgeries involving discectomy, fixation and fusion at the cervical and lumbar levels. The defense admitted ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury

In April 2009, the plaintiff noticed a lump in her right breast. She quickly presented to her gynecologist, who referred her to a surgeon for evaluation. Because of a suspicious finding in her biopsy, she then underwent a lumpectomy and ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements

The decedent was a 28-year-old female who presented to the emergency department of Sentara CarePlex Hospital on Feb. 1, 2011, shortly after midnight. She complained of having developed episodes of sharp subscapular chest pain (lasting about five minutes) earlier that ...

Tagged with: Hampton Circuit Court Judge Louis R. Lerner Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death