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Companies employ 3D printing technology now more than ever, leveraging devices in pioneering ways. Its widespread usage helps businesses cut costs and manufacture products efficiently. At the same time, the legal landscape surrounding 3D printers is underdeveloped, so those who ...

Tagged with: Products Liability

A former investigator with a university’s office of equity and compliance saw her Title VII claim against the university dismissed by a federal court. The woman said the university retaliated against her after she claimed the school allegedly discriminated against ...

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

A party’s discovery delays resulted in a default judgment and an award of more than $80,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to its opponent. On appeal, the sanctioned party argued that the harsh sanctions were an abuse of discretion because ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Stuart A. Raphael Sanctions Virginia Court of Appeals

Virginia Lawyers Weekly compiles a feature each year that highlights the million-dollar verdicts of the prior year, usually run in late January. Typically, there are between 15-20 jury verdicts reported to us where the jury awarded $1 million or more. ...

A lower court’s recognition of a new cause of action against Transportation and Security Administration, or TSA, officers who seized a man’s cell phone and prohibited him from recording his husband’s pat down at an airport has been grounded by ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker

The Virginia Bar Association installed Leesburg attorney Benjamin D. Leigh as the association’s new president on Jan. 21, according to a release from the VBA. Leigh will serve as the association’s 135th president and succeeds Roanoke attorney Victor O. Cardwell ...

Employee non-compete agreements have faced mounting scrutiny in recent years. Proponents say non-competes are indispensable for protecting trade secrets and other business interests. Critics say they hurt employee mobility and wage growth. Now the federal government has stepped into the ...

Tagged with: Employment Noncompete

The Supreme Court of Virginia certified a pending judicial vacancy in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, stating the vacancy “should be filled in the manner prescribed by law.” The high court announced the certification on Jan. 12 in a letter to ...

Tagged with: Judge Christopher W. Hutton

A deaf man who sued a hospital after it failed to provide him with an interpreter during his wife’s childbirth had his disability discrimination lawsuit reinstated by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fourth Circuit reversed the decision ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Americans with Disabilities Act Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Tort

Washington and Lee University School of Law Dean and Professor Melanie D. Wilson has been chosen as the 2023 president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools, or AALS. The AALS announced that its house of representatives voted to accept ...