Have you defamed a coworker when you say she faced conflict on the job because she was not always to work on time? Fact versus opinion in the workplace was before the Supreme Court of Virginia this morning when the ...

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Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray W. Grubbs ruled that a Christiansburg developer failed to make out a case in his lawsuit against a community blogger who criticized the developer online. Grubbs this week dismissed the suit filed by Roger Woody ...

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Self-promotion, especially on a matter of public interest, makes it very tough to win a libel case. That’s the clear, if hardly new, message from the 4th Circuit in Hatfill v. The New York Times Co. The suit was based ...

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Richmond personal injury attorney Jay Tronfeld has settled his lawsuit alleging that a Nationwide adjuster defamed him by telling a client that Tronfeld “just takes people’s money.” The case had been scheduled for trial yesterday in Petersburg Circuit Court, but ...

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A former executive who said she was defamed by her job performance review has come up empty-handed, after winning one of the largest verdicts in 2005. Cynthia Hyland had been with defense contractor Raytheon Corporation for 21 years and served ...

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Andrew Marsinko, a Botetourt County poultry farmer, wasn’t happy when he learned that a photo taken of him at the 1996 Virginia State Fair showed up on a greeting card. The card shows him wearing a cowboy hat and holding ...

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