A federal judge has invited Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to weigh in on a coal rights case in Southwest Virginia, even as Cuccinelli continues to defend his office’s actions in a similar lawsuit pitting landowners against large energy companies. ...

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A Richmond federal judge has ordered a compensation payment of nearly $18 million against a company held in contempt for continued patent infringement. The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne in ePlus Inc. v. Lawson Software Inc. (VLW ...

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Criminal attorneys are closely watching an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that could drastically affect the number of convictions and guilty pleas under one of the most commonly-charged federal crimes on the books: aiding and abetting the use of a ...

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A federal judge has disqualified Richmond lawyer Scott C. Oostdyk as trial counsel just two months before he was scheduled to lead a legal team for Ford Motor Co. to try a case alleging an insurance company has been stalling ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court said it is concerned by what appears to be a pattern of federal prosecutors in eastern North Carolina failing to fully turn over evidence that defendants should be aware of in advance of a ...

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Attorneys handling complex civil litigation in Northern Virginia are making use of a new benchmark to win higher fee awards from federal judges, including a 2011 award of more than $4 million. U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee has ...

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A doctor who claimed his business consultant usurped the doctor’s chance to buy his prior practice group can try his tort claim, a federal appeals court ruled earlier this month. Last year, an Alexandria federal judge awarded the defendants summary ...

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A group of drivers for a car service could not be certified as a collective class under the Fair Labor Standards Act because their claims require individual factual inquiries, according to a federal judge in Alexandria. The case – which ...

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A Richmond federal judge has refused to throw out allegations of misconduct against a Virginia prosecutor in a civil lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was arrested and jailed for almost a year based on false accusations supported ...

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A federal appeals court has awarded more than $32,000 in fees to a law firm that represented a former coal miner in his successful bid to be compensated for the black-lung disease he had contracted during his 17 years on ...

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