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In “Big Boss Man,” the popular blues song by Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley sang about cruel working conditions, including “round the clock” hours and punitive measures for taking breaks. While Elvis sang about the need to get a new boss ...

United States border authorities must have individualized, reasonable suspicion – but not a warrant – in order to forensically search a cellphone, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 9. The opinion is U.S. v. Kolsuz (VLW 018-2-091). ...

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

After a decade of intentionally unfunded Virginia judgeships, the state will have money to fill all authorized bench seats by July of next year. The General Assembly has agreed to a budget that would fund all 435 trial court judgeships ...

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The office of Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring argued in February to uphold the conviction of a Franklin County woman who discarded a stillborn fetus in a dumpster. Katherine Dellis was convicted under a law that prohibits the concealment ...

Tagged with: Attorney General Mark Herring Judge Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals

A man convicted of two bank robberies is innocent of those crimes, the Court of Appeals of Virginia held on May 22. Gary Bush, who served almost 10 years in prison, cleared his name after a surprise confession by the ...

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It is now well-established that the #MeToo social responsibility movement is changing corporate America. It has led to the downfall of powerful executives and has put corporate culture under a microscope. The media, regulators and investors are focusing not only ...

Think the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) doesn’t apply to U.S. companies? Think again, and quickly, as the massive data protection law – the biggest change to EU data privacy in more than 20 years – went into effect on ...

Cyber attacks and costly accidental losses of sensitive personal and financial information are no longer confined to retailers such as Target and Sony or banks and investment houses such as JP Morgan. Professional service firms — accountants, lawyers, financial advisors ...

A recent workers’ compensation claim settled for almost $4 million, making it one of the largest comp settlements in the state. To date, Virginia Lawyers Weekly has reported one other larger workers’ comp settlement, with the claimant in that case ...

Tagged with: Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission

A man Tasered by off-duty police officers working as store security guards can take his excessive force lawsuit to the discovery stage under a ruling by an Abingdon federal judge. U.S. District Judge James P. Jones ruled the man’s account ...

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