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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