When parties haggle over a debt, one of them may try to get the last word by making partial payment and claiming an accord and satisfaction. In a new case of homeowner v. plumber, the Supreme Court of Virginia says ...

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A law firm avoids liability on a claim of tortious interference with contract rights today because the plaintiff business failed to allege that the law firm intended to cause the alleged harm. The ruling in DurretteBradshaw, P.C. v. MRC Consulting, ...

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Scott Hoover apparently will have to go it alone in his quest for reimbursement from the Virginia Lottery. Hoover is the Washington & Lee University professor who challenged the state lottery system on its advertised odds for certain scratch-off games.  ...

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As evidenced by this article from the Rocky Mountain News, Virginia is not the only state battling claims that its scratch-off lottery games are unfair because tickets were still being sold after the big prizes had all been won. In ...

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As evidenced by this article from the Rocky Mountain News, Virginia is not the only state battling claims that its scratch-off lottery games are unfair because tickets were still being sold after the big prizes had all been won. In ...

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The Gambler got it right: you got to know when to fold ’em. A Vienna employment lawyer unfortunately got it wrong when he pursued a worthless contract case past the point of patience for the defendant former employer. A federal ...

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When Dr Karen Alldredge of Salem was bounced from her practice group of ER physicians, she did not sue her colleagues who voted her off their island; instead, she sued the hospital that, she claims, wrongly forced her colleagues to ...

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It was a good day in the Supreme Court of Virginia for the holders of big verdicts. The court affirmed seven-figure judgments in four cases with nothing in common other than the size of the awards. In Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner ...

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Lawyers’ business clients have used arbitration for years to resolve commercial disputes. But there’s business, and then, there’s bidness. Senior U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar had a case in Norfolk federal district court last month, Al-Haddad Commodities Corp. v. ...

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Poor English skills did not keep two Hispanic union members from being bound by their union contract’s mandatory arbitration clause for complaints of discrimination, the 4th Circuit ruled yesterday in Aleman v. Chugach Support Services (VLW 007-2-070). The two Hispanic ...

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