LeRoy F. Millette Jr. was formally invested today as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who elevated Millette from Prince William County Circuit Court to the Virginia Court of Appeals last year and to ...
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Read More »A Boy Scout who was infected by a toxic strain of E. coli at a Virginia scout camp today filed suit against a California food supplier, according to a law firm news release. The suit naming S & S Foods ...
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Read More »A tug of war over disability plan documents has been remanded to an Alexandria federal district court for the second time by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. AT&T denied long-term disability benefits under the company’s ERISA plan to ...
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Read More »University of Richmond law professor Joel B. Eisen will be a Fulbright Scholar at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing next spring. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology andStanford University law school, Eisen has ...
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Read More »From the governor’s office: Governor Timothy M. Kaine dec*lared a state of emergency today, directing state agencies to take all reasonable actions necessary to protect the health and safety of Virginians from the potentially damaging effects of Tropical Storm Hanna. ...
Read More »An e-mail sent to the community of the College of William & Mary suggests that interim president Taylor Reveley may lose his “interim” status. The Daily Press has details here with a link to the e-mail. By Peter Vieth
Read More »In this week’s VLW, Deborah Elkins recounts the unfortunate experience of a lawyer who went to court with the wrong weapon. The lawyer argued using a case that — unknown to him — had been overruled. We can now authoritatively ...
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Read More »What are the boundaries for break-room chatter about the current presidential campaign? As this historic campaign heats up, employers may wonder about how or whether to monitor workplace political discussion. Hot-button issues of race and gender make for lively discussions ...
Read More »A second lawsuit challenging the authority of a Virginia homeowners’ association has been thrown out of court. The winners last week were property owner groups in both the large-scale gated community of Lake Holiday in Frederick County and the small Dogwood Valley ...
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Read More »A second lawsuit challenging the authority of a Virginia homeowners’ association has been thrown out of court. The winners last week were property owner groups in both the large-scale gated community of Lake Holiday in Frederick County and the small Dogwood Valley ...
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