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Four weeks and counting. That’s how long it has been since the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered an opinion that it deemed worthy of publication. Granted, the Richmond-based federal appellate court is known for being stingier with ...

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Attorneys concerned about getting hit with sanctions because of an inadequate investigation of the facts can take relief from an unpublished order today from the Supreme Court of Virginia.In 8522 Lee Highway at Merrifield LLC v. Sonic-Manhattan Fairfax Inc., Record ...

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Richmond-based Hunton & Williams LLP is among the major law firms looking for business opportunities from the collapse of credit and stock markets. It has formed what it calls a Financial Industry Recovery Group with lawyers experienced in all areas ...

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Richmond-based Hunton & Williams LLP is among the major law firms looking for business opportunities from the collapse of credit and stock markets. It has formed what it calls a Financial Industry Recovery Group with lawyers experienced in all areas ...

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It takes a lot to try the patience of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A persistent pro se litigant who used his pauper status to file multiple lawsuits and appeals without paying any filing fees has ...

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William H. Pauley III, a federal judge in New York City, didn’t like the case of BrandAid Marketing Corp. v. Cyberian Enterprises Ltd. or the lawyers, one of them  from Richmond, who tried it. He ruled initially in 2005 that ...

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William H. Pauley III, a federal judge in New York City, didn’t like the case of BrandAid Marketing Corp. v. Cyberian Enterprises Ltd. or the lawyers, one of them  from Richmond, who tried it. He ruled initially in 2005 that ...

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Michael Vick, professional quarterback and amateur dog trainer, looks to be smoothing his path to re-entry into the football business. Documents in the Surry County courthouse indicate that Vick will plead guilty to his new state dog fighting charges.  Resolution ...

Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. told the Virginia Judicial Council today that he will forgo the 2 percent raise the General Assembly has approved for judges. He said he will leave to the conscience of individual judges whether they ...

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A pair of amateur genealogists have concluded that those human remains found last month in Mountain Lake are those of Samuel Ira Felder, a telephone company engineer from Troy, New York, who apparently drowned in a boating accident at Mountain ...