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A law firm that sought attorneys’ fees before they came due under a homebuyer’s promissory note now faces discovery in an action under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The count against the firm is the only claim to ...

Tagged with: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An insurance company’s bid to recover payments for a fire loss was thrown out of court this month because the company failed to preserve the fire scene. U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski of Roanoke said he dismissed the insurer’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Spoliation U.S. District Court - Western District

A student booted from the University of Virginia medical school in 2018 has survived an early obstacle with his lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations. U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon, sitting in Charlottesville federal court, concluded Kieran Bhattacharya had made ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Only three circuits have elections for Virginia State Bar Council this year. Lawyers are voting for bar leaders in Alexandria (the 18th circuit), the Roanoke Valley (the 23rd circuit) and in the Bristol area (the 28th circuit). Online voting continues ...

Virginia lawyers who objected to settlement terms in a case against alleged predatory online lenders helped improve the take for borrowers by $41 million. The judge who approved the enhanced, $182 million settlement plan also sweetened the deal for those ...

Fifteen candidates have applied to be evaluated by a Virginia State Bar committee for a vacancy on the federal bench in the Western District of Virginia. U.S. District Judge James P. Jones, who sits in Abingdon, is scheduled to take ...

An appeal testing the boundaries of Virginia’s so-called “revenge porn” law has been dismissed without a ruling on the merits. The Supreme Court of Virginia this month declined to consider a case where the loser at the trial court voluntarily ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – New laws that increase the available coverage in auto insurance policies will mean more compensation to those injured in Virginia auto accidents. But the devil is in the details, and lawyers will have to parse ...

Tagged with: Car Insurance General Assembly Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

A ruling by a Newport News judge illustrates one of the hurdles faced by lawyers seeking to sue over COVID-19 infections acquired in group facilities. A wrongful death lawsuit claiming an unwritten no-mask policy at an assisted living facility led ...

Tagged with: assisted living covid Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death

Officers that arrested and jailed a severely intoxicated man who later died of an overdose are not entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging they should have sought medical help, a federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling by ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Julius N. Richardson Overdose