Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly
In what must be some kind of record, Pennsylvania-based CONSOL Energy Inc. will pay $75 million to resolve six years of coal pollution litigation in Buchanan County Circuit Court. The announcement comes in a CONSOL filing with the SEC this ...
Read More »Home (page 380)
Prosecutor, newspaper reach deal on seized photos
A First Amendment battle between the Rockingham County commonwealth’s attorney and the James Madison University student newspaper reportedly has been resolved with the paper agreeing to turn over 20 images to law enforcement officials and the state paying the paper’s ...
Tagged with: First Amendment
Read More »Business loan penalty was ‘unconscionable,’ judge says 
A Fairfax County judge has ruled a penalty clause of $300 a day in a business loan was unconscionable and unenforceable despite the fact that state usury laws did not apply to the loan. The ruling came in a dispute ...
Tagged with: Contract Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Charles James Maxfield Judge Jane Marum Roush
Read More »Washington lawyer sentenced for role in Va. drug ring
A lawyer licensed in both Washington, D.C., and New York has been sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to launder drug money in Virginia. Brian Malady was a crystal meth addict who agreed to hide tens of thousands ...
Tagged with: Criminal
Read More »Driver gets coverage in permissive-use case
The driver of a tiny Smart car severely injured in a 2008 head-on collision has won access to $3 million in insurance coverage in a permissive-use decision. The 13-page opinion by Alexandria U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga declares that ...
Tagged with: Insurance Judge Anthony J. Trenga
Read More »U.Va. takes Cuccinelli to court over request for documents
The University of Virginia’s response to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for information about global warming research is a petition to set aside the “civil investigative demands” served on the school. The Washington Post reports the motion was filed ...
Tagged with: Civil Procedure Fraud
Read More »Try again, judge tells media lawyers
News media lawyers who sued to unseal the court order blocking access to documents in the U.Va. lacrosse killing investigation took the wrong tack with a writ of mandamus directed to the court clerk. That was the ruling today from ...
Tagged with: Civil Procedure Criminal
Read More »Northern Virginia goes green without disputes
The world of green building standards has been largely free of lawyers and lawsuits, but the formerly peaceful world of sustainable development soon may be getting its first taste of litigation. Pointing to a failed challenge to the environmental credentials ...
Tagged with: Environmental
Read More »Rotunda lawsuit dismissed, almost
The only remaining claim in the wide-ranging sexual assault lawsuit filed by law professor Kyndra Rotunda against George Mason University is a state law count of assault and battery against her former supervisor, Prof. Joseph Zengerle. Alexandria U.S. District Judge ...
Tagged with: Law Schools
Read More »It’s now official: The “Shaggy defense” is a term of art
When Danville U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser rules that the “Shaggy defense” won’t fly in a summary judgment motion, we can safely assume the term is now ensconced in the annals of legal terminology. For those whose musical tastes don’t ...
Tagged with: Civil Procedure Personal Injury
Read More »