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Although defendant, who together with his brother was charged with murder, contends that the trial court should have granted a mistrial because one of the jurors was sleeping and/or was distracted by a migraine headache, and she closed her eyes ...

Where a construction company’s suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien has been consolidated with several other actions on the property and referred to a commissioner in chancery, the motion filed by the company’s counsel for leave to withdraw should not ...

Where plaintiffs have filed suit against the Medical College of Virginia to recover for injuries suffered by the infant plaintiff who has a severe neurological disorder which followed a problematic labor, the court sustains defendant’s demurrer and holds that plaintiffs ...

Although the two police officers who arrested defendant, after defendant’s trial, were indicted for perjury in securing a search warrant in an unrelated case, these indictments did not justify the district court in granting defendant a new trial on his ...

Where plaintiff inmates and defendant corrections officials never formally agreed upon the duties specified in a timetable for making 83 specific improvements at two prison facilities, and these duties add substantially to those accepted by the prison officials in the ...

Where plaintiff alleges that the vessel on which he was injured was “unseaworthy” because he was required to “flake the mooring lines” with a complement of crew inadequate to perform the task safely, plaintiff has failed to establish that the ...

Where the injured plaintiff initially received payments, without benefit of a formal award, under the Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 901, but after an administrative law judge later found that plaintiff was a “seaman” and not ...

Where plaintiff’s motion for judgment charges the bank with cashing checks which her husband had fraudulently drawn on plaintiff’s stockbrokerage account and on which the husband had forged her endorsement, and the plaintiff sued the bank, the trial court erred ...

Where claimant testified that on Apr. 11, 1990, while unloading a truck, he tripped over a box of tiles and felt a sharp pain in his back, and that later on May 17, 1990, while he was crouching and twisting ...

Where claimant, a cashier and baker, could recall in detail several separate and specific incidents of hurting her back while at work, once while bending to lift a heavy bag of flour off a bottom shelf, once while carrying a ...