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The Virginia Supreme Court has set aside a $25,000 verdict for negligent entrustment entered against a woman whose husband took her rifle and shot a man who had accidently strayed onto their property. The high court held that the wife’s ...

The Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed a woman’s conviction for driving on a suspended license because the arresting officer acted solely on the anonymous tip of a passing motorist. The officer did not ask the informant how he knew ...

A lawyer may argue in circuit court that a sexual assault claim is barred by the Workers’ Compensation Act, then turn around and argue before the Comp Commission that a comp claim based on the same incident belongs in circuit ...

An association of Virginia collection agencies wants to have legislation introduced into the 1993 General Assembly which would allow the agencies to prepare warrants in debt for their creditor clients. A draft proposal of a “right of assignment” statute currently ...

A Virginia lawyer overstepped ethical boundaries in a divorce case when the lawyer asked a Virginia court to issue and enforce an unenforceable subpoena to obtain an out-of-state resident’s financial documents, according to the Virginia State Bar Standing Committee on ...

The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s top legislative priority this year is changing the medical malpractice cap. According to Talmage Williams, the VTLA’s director of government affairs, the association is working on a compromise which would restrict the cap to pain-and-suffering ...

Family law practitioners would support a rehabilitative alimony statute and a mandatory termination of spousal support for cohabitation, according to a survey conducted by the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar. However, respondents did not favor changes to ...

The Internal Revenue Service has given its imprimatur to limited liability companies organized in Virginia. In a long-awaited ruling issued on Dec. 28, the IRS found that a company organized under Virginia’s Limited Liability Company Act is a partnership for ...

If a campus police officer makes an arrest, where that arrest took place may make the difference between conviction and dismissal, reports Fairfax attorney Roy J. Baldwin. Baldwin related this traffic court experience, where location turned out to be everything: ...

The Virginia Women Attorneys Association has endorsed an attempt to revive the retroactive application of Virginia’s childhood sexual abuse statute by amending the Virginia constitution. Laurie E. Forbes, chair of the VWAA legislative committee, indicated that the constitutional amendment would ...