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Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones shifts office priorities
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones shifts focus to consumer protection, health data privacy, immigration, education, and environmental policy upon taking office in 2025.
Legislature eyes allowing civil class actions in state courts
Bills advancing in the General Assembly would allow class action lawsuits in Virginia state courts for the first time.
Texas sues Tylenol over unproven pregnancy safety claims
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, alleging deceptive marketing of Tylenol as safe for pregnant women despite autism concerns.
Virginia joins FTC suit against Ticketmaster, Live Nation
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares joins FTC in suing Ticketmaster, alleging violations of consumer protection laws.
New York sues Zelle operator over fraud failures
Story highlights · Attorney General Letitia James sues Early Warning Services over Zelle’s alleged fraud vulnerabilities · Lawsuit filed in New York state court seeks restitution and damages · CFPB […]
Maryland couple sues over predatory lending linked to MV Realty, Monroe Capital
Story highlights · Maryland couple files class-action over MV Realty’s 40-year liens and hidden fees. · Lawsuit targets Monroe Capital for funding MV Realty’s nationwide expansion. · Plaintiffs claim homeowner […]
Virginia joins effort to address illegal offshore gambling
Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general calling on the Department of Justice to combat illegal offshore gambling, citing risks to consumers, state revenue loss and national economic harm.
Court blocks FTC’s click-to-cancel subscription rule
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a federal appeals court just days […]
Consumer Protection: Class-action waiver enforced in MDL suit
Where the district court held that Marriott engaged in conduct inconsistent with the class-action bar when it agreed to MDL proceedings in Maryland, and thus implicitly waived reliance on that provision, it erred.
Consumer Protection: Capital One allegedly misappropriated commissions through browser extension
Where the plaintiffs plausibly pleaded facts that the Capital One Shopping browser extension misappropriates commissions, their putative class action lawsuit largely survived Capital One’s motion to dismiss.
Consumer Protection: VCPA defective vehicle claim is dismissed
Where a vehicle owner asserted a claim under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act based on an alleged lemon law vehicle, but he failed to plead facts showing reliance on the alleged misrepresentations or damages proximately caused by those alleged misrepresentations, this claim was dismissed.
Consumer Protection: Default denied where defendant hasn’t been served
Where a homeowner moved for default in her suit challenging a state-court partition action and alleging violations of mortgage and consumer-protection laws, but she has not properly effectuated service, her motion was denied.
Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice-Patient dies following blood loss in surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Defense points to plaintiff’s prior collision, stressors
- Medical Malpractice – Ingrown toenail removal leads to CRPS type 2
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Car crash after back surgery causes additional injuries
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with cardiologist over treatment of strokes
- Negligence and Tort- Ice pack use during tattoo removal causes frostbite
- Workers’ Compensation Struck by metal door at workplace, plaintiff sustains subdural hematoma
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Woman struck by vehicle loses senses of taste, smell
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Pedestrian struck by car while in parking lot
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Driver fractures right leg in tractor-trailer collision
Opinion Digests
- Freedom of Information – Exemption 5 protects draft PTAB written decision
- Fraud – Homeowners’ RICO claim is dismissed
- Criminal – Sex-offender convicted of providing false information
- Evidence – Defendants must respond to post-judgment discovery
- Patent and trademark – Several claims found to be ineligible for patent protection
- Criminal – Evidence supports robbery conviction
- Administrative – Internal Communications Among Patent Judges – Withheld Materials
- Criminal – Denial of continuance wasn’t abuse of discretion
- Criminal – Felony eluding conviction violated Double Jeopardy clause
- Criminal – Defendant was wrongly convicted of two counts of hit-and-run
- Criminal – Sexually-violent predator denied conditional release
- Constitutional – Redistricting effort violated Virginia Constitution
