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In this suit by 30 victims of one of the largest residential arsons in Maryland history against defendant SSA Security Inc., the 4th Circuit affirms summary judgment for SSA on plaintiff homeowners’ negligence-based claims and on their claim under the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Henry F. Floyd Tort

Having found the Republic of Sudan liable to plaintiffs under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the court now awards damages to certain family members of service members killed in the bombing of the USS Cole. In 2004, 59 family members ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert G. Doumar Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A South Carolina prison guard who was shot in his home allegedly on an order from an inmate using a contraband cellphone cannot sue cellphone service providers and owners of cellphone towers to recover for his injuries; the 4th Circuit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Henry F. Floyd Products Liability

A plaintiff who alleges she was injured while a patron at a Norfolk entertainment venue by a “John Doe” employee of an independent security contractor, cannot sue the venue for negligence for failing to see that “physical force was going ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Premises Liability Virginia Circuit Courts

A Roanoke City Circuit Court says defendants must produce medical records of a defendant physician who has left the country and whose present whereabouts are unknown, and the court will review in camera certain documents for which defendants claim a ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Medical Malpractice Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Boy Scouts of America on plaintiff Scout’s suit alleging gross negligence after the Scout allegedly became ill from eating tainted meat on a BSA camping trip. The focus here is ...

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

A woman who alleges injury from stepping off an “unprotected and invisible drop” at Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream event cannot have her premises liability suit remanded to state court; although defendant park says plaintiff has fraudulently joined a defendant “John Doe” ...

Tagged with: Judge Tommy E. Miller Premises Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The federal Patient Safety Act privilege covers email communications between defendant doctor and the hospital’s designated patient safety officer, even if the emails were never actually sent to a “patient safety organization,” and the Norfolk Circuit Court denies plaintiff’s motion ...

Tagged with: Judge Junius P. Fulton III Medical Malpractice Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A customer’s assertion that she slipped in a liquid on the floor in the supermarket aisle where she had gone to retrieve hushpuppy mix is insufficient to create a factual issue as to whether defendant supermarket had actual or constructive ...

Tagged with: Judge Tommy E. Miller Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A lawyer did not have a “special relationship” with a private investigator he hired to serve divorce papers on a husband and so had no duty to warn the process server that the man owned a gun and might be ...

Tagged with: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Supreme Court of Virginia Tort