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The Supreme Court of Virginia has closed the final door to recovery for families of two victims of the Virginia Tech shootings who sued the state rather than accept $100,000 settlements. The court Tuesday denied the families’ petitions for rehearing ...

Reversing an earlier decision to bar access to recordings of oral arguments, the Supreme Court of Virginia has begun posting the recordings on its website. The court announced Jan. 10 that audio recordings will be posted at the end of ...

An effort to recover more than the maximum allowed under Virginia law in a birth injury case has been turned aside by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court decided that injuries to Marissa Simpson, now 12, caused by a ...

A Norfolk newspaper does not owe damages to a Chesapeake school principal for an article that, according to the principal, insinuated he arranged for his son to get special treatment. The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the ruling of a ...

Two Richmond lawyers cannot be sanctioned for their argument in support of a divorce client ordered to pay her husband’s attorney’s fees. The Supreme Court of Virginia reversed sanctions ordered by Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret P. Spencer against Michael Shebelskie ...

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Oysters have no backbone and oyster farming can’t count as farming for a York County resident who grew his own among his neighbors. A York County Circuit Court upheld two landowners’ right to cultivate a homegrown product, but the Supreme Court ...

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Defamation is on the docket again, as the Supreme Court of Virginia convenes in Richmond during the week of Jan. 6, 2014. A decision is expected by week’s end in a newspaper’s appeal of a defamation award to a local ...

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The Supreme Court may have had  a chance to revisit the issue of a punitives award with no award of compensatory damages,  but a lack of clarity in the jury verdict prompted it to affirm the trial court in a Nov. ...

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A toddler who suffered a leg fracture after being inside a foam pit at her daycare facility can sue the daycare for negligence, the Supreme Court of Virginia said on Nov. 22. The trial court said the allegations of negligence ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has received a $130,000 grant from the National Center for State Courts to study a system for using designated senior judges to sit in Virginia trial courts, Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser announced on Nov. 1. ...

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