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A jury’s conclusion that a car repair and painting business was liable for conversion after it sold a classic car that its owner refused to pick up for months has been reversed on appeal in a matter of first impression. ...

Tagged with: Business Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals

A Greene County circuit judge awarded more than $13,000 in appellate attorneys’ fees in a long-standing dispute after finding the appellees were the prevailing party in the Supreme Court of Virginia appeal. In a case of first impression, Greene County ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Fees Judge Dale B. Durrer Virginia Circuit Courts

A Supreme Court of Virginia majority has refused to expunge a felony charge of driving while intoxicated even though the government conceded that the man didn’t have the requisite prior felony and should only have been charged with a misdemeanor. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Justice Cleo E. Powell Justice Thomas P. Mann Supreme Court of Virginia

The Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division recognized a pair of young lawyers earlier this year at the VBA Annual Meeting in Williamsburg. Richmond attorney Jennifer L. Ligon received the Sandra P. Thompson Award while Ann Petros, vice president of ...

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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

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 4th U.S. 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

A policyholder’s claim against its title insurer for negligently performing title searches and producing inaccurate legal descriptions of the property was dismissed because the source of duty rule and the economic loss rule provide that the policyholder’s remedy was only ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District