Plaintiff alleged in a complaint filed pursuant to the Virginia Torts Claims Act that a report published online by a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia in March 2013 defamed her. The jury found that the defendant had committed ...

Tagged with: Defamation Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Richmond Circuit Court Verdict

A high school principal stung by a critical comment in a local newspaper lost her multi-million-dollar libel suit this spring when a judge ruled the published statements were not defamatory. The quick end to the suit was a win for ...

Tagged with: Defamation Giles County Circuit Court Judge Robert M.D. Turk

A man sued by his business partner for defamation could call on his homeowners insurance policy for a defense in the suit, a Richmond U.S. District Court said on Nov. 24. “Business” exclusions in the homeowners and umbrella policies issued ...

Tagged with: Defamation Federal Courts Insurance Judge Henry E. Hudson

A physician at a Petersburg pain clinic is suing CVS pharmacy for defamation based on pharmacy employees’ alleged comments about the physician being investigated for prescribing too many pain medications. The pharmacy is fighting back with a defense of qualified ...

Tagged with: Defamation Federal Courts Judge Robert E. Payne

After prosecutors refused to pursue cases involving a Culpeper town police officer, the officer took them to court this month demanding damages for defamation. The former detective claimed he was yanked from special law enforcement units and demoted back to ...

Tagged with: Commonwealth's Attorneys Criminal Defamation

Plaintiff underwent a colonoscopy to evaluate an undiagnosed condition. Because the plaintiff knew that he would be groggy after the colonoscopy and might not remember the doctor’s findings and instructions, he set his iPhone to record the after-procedure conversation in ...

Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Medical Malpractice

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has approved a new law to make it easier to sue online mudslingers. The governor’s March 16 signature will add extra time for victims of anonymous Internet defamation to learn the identities of their tormentors. The current ...

Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court General Assembly Gov. Terry McAuliffe Judge Robert J. Smith

A criminal defense lawyer who reportedly called a police detective’s proposed investigation plan “crazy” now faces a defamation lawsuit filed by the detective. The suit might send lawyers running to their files to see if defamation is covered in their ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Defamation Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Prince William County Circuit Court

A police department employee may sue her supervisors for defamation for comments they made during a dispute over her extra hours. When the supervisors disciplined Jeannie Kuley for allegedly working unapproved overtime in violation of Fairfax County policy, she pursued ...

Tagged with: Defamation Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Charles James Maxfield

A lawyer cannot discover the identity of an online poster who called her a “run of the mill court appointed attorney,” a Fairfax Circuit judge has ruled. That wasn’t even the worst of the comments offered by a John Doe ...

Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith