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A man who shot back at armed invaders could not suppress drugs found in his home when police executed a search warrant for firearms and ammunition related to the shoot-out. Armed men invaded the apartment Derrick Wilson shared with a ...

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A vehicle’s driver was a person “responsible for use” of the vehicle under an auto liability policy, and the carrier could not contest coverage on that point, the Supreme Court of Virginia said. The provision at issue said an “Insured ...

A fight over a contractor’s right to excavate on Montgomery County property is coming back from the Supreme Court of Virginia. The high court revived the contractor’s summary judgment win on claims for business conspiracy and malicious prosecution, and sent ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has refused to hear an appeal in a case where a daughter overturned her father’s will and stands to inherit nearly $2 million under a 15-year-old contract between her parents for her benefit. A Hanover ...

A customer who sued Best Buy after he tripped over the base of a shopping cart has lost his appeal in the Supreme Court of Virginia. Charles Stanley Hawvermale, age 79 at the time of the alleged injury, wanted a ...

Former Newport News Circuit Judge Verbena Askew struck out at the Supreme Court with a two-pronged effort to undo a $350,000 defamation judgment against her. Askew was found liable for telling newspaper reporters a former court staffer had been “institutionalized.” ...

The Supreme Court has resolved a lingering question about personal injury trial practice by approving a plaintiff’s listing of possible damage amounts during closing argument. Fairfax lawyer Edward L. Weiner said he has been getting “some really good verdicts” by ...

A man whose wife died after outpatient plastic surgery can keep his $1.95 million jury award in a Virginia Beach medical malpractice case tried in 2010. Thirty-three hours after the surgery on her breasts and abdomen, the 36-year-old mother of ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has thrown up a roadblock for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s effort to review university research documents in search of global warming fraud. The court ruled Friday that the University of Virginia is not a “person” ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that secret GPS tracking by police is a search that likely requires a warrant, the Virginia Supreme Court will consider the case of a Northern Virginia assault suspect who was caught ...