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At a March 13 meeting,  the Roanoke Bar Association endorsed Roanoke U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert S. Ballou as a candidate for nomination to fill the vacancy in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The vacancy was ...

A Richmond federal jury awarded $37.8 million dollars to a former truck driver injured in a devastating crash of a concrete mixer truck, one of the highest personal injury jury verdicts ever in Virginia. There was no punitive damages component ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A divorcing father’s unilateral decision to use a marital investment account to pay for his adult son’s master’s program was properly considered waste of the marital assets, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled. A Fairfax County circuit judge ...

Tagged with: Judge Bruce D. White Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals News

The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to take up whether a public body can keep the substance of its legal bills under wraps. A dentist who settled his court battle with the city of Virginia Beach wants to know ...

Legislators selected 16 new Virginia trial court judges March 9 before adjourning the next day to await a special session that could produce funding for additional judicial seats. The General Assembly elected five circuit judges, five general district judges and ...

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One expert should have been heard; another was heard but fell short on linking negligence to damages. Those were the rulings from the Supreme Court of Virginia last month in two medical malpractice cases that help define standards for expert ...

Tagged with: Justice Cleo E. Powell Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Supreme Court of Virginia News

Family members’ speculation about a patient’s reluctance to have surgery was not enough to support an informed consent case after the patient died following gallbladder surgery, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled last month. The case focused on the admissibility ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia News

A Salem attorney has agreed to a 10-month suspension of his law license beginning in June for ethics violations involving client money and cooperation with bar regulators. C. Gregory Phillips’ deal with bar prosecutors includes a five-year probation period with ...

Attempts to tighten regulation of cell phone use while driving in Virginia failed to pass the General Assembly this year. The Virginia Senate approved a broad prohibition on holding a phone while driving earlier in the session, amending a House ...

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A debate over how courts should deal with missing evidence managed to divide the General Assembly – not by political party – but by alliance with the plaintiff or defense side of civil litigation. The defense carried the day as ...