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It looked innocent, like it always does. The subject line to the message said, “[So and so] has shared a document with you.” The body text was routine: “[So and so] has invited you to view the following document.” And ...

A patient cannot sue a dentist under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act as part of a dental malpractice claim, a federal judge in Alexandria has ruled. The VCPA claim involved alleged fraud, based on how much the dentist told the ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina has been home to some notable criminals, Pirates such as Blackbeard (a/k/a Edward Teach) and Calico Jack roamed the area; Teach made Ocracoke his headquarters. Or if you want to hear ...

Tagged with: Criminal Editor's Notebook Ocracoke Island

Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina has been home to some notable criminals. Pirates such as Blackbeard (a/k/a Edward Teach) and Calico Jack roamed the area; Teach made Ocracoke his headquarters. Or if you want to hear ...

The people who make online stories and online journalism their thing will tell you: Don’t write a clever headline for the web version of a story. Search engine optimization (the system that allows Google and other search programs to index ...

The Judicial Conference of the United States is asking Congress to create four new bankruptcy judgeships across the country and to make 14 temporary seats permanent. Failure to do so will result in a “debilitating workload crisis,” warns James C. ...

A high school student in Richmond who wrote Harvard to tell the school that it had admitted a classmate who had been found guilty of cheat­ing can sue school administrators for violating his First Amendment rights, a federal judge in ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Harvard University Maggie L. Walker Governor's School

It’s Opening Day next weekend for Major League Baseball, and after a sports offseason that saw the worst Super Bowl ending in NFL history and a whole bunch of busted brackets for the NCAA basketball tourney, it can’t come too ...

Tagged with: Columbia Fireflies Minor League Baseball Tim Tebow

A bankruptcy judge in North Car­olina wasn’t wrong when he found that a big insurance company creditor had acted in bad faith. But when he whacked the insurer hard – a claim of more than $10 million was dismissed and ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance

Yesterday in Miami, a criminal defense lawyer was starting his closing argument when his trousers began smoking, then burst into flames. He was defending an arson case. Stephen Gutierrez ran out of the courtroom, then returned to finish his argument, ...