Lawyers who wanted to use drivers’ personal information to solicit new clients for consumer lawsuits could not rely on an exception to a federal privacy law, the U.S. Supreme Court said June 17. The “litigation exception” in the Driver’s Privacy ...

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McLEAN (AP) — The Virginia Department of Health will no longer provide public access to its hospital complaint investigations after an Associated Press story found inconsistencies in the probe of a woman’s care at Inova Fairfax Hospital. The change in ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether Virginia can keep out-of-staters from using its Freedom of Information Act law to get government documents. The high court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Mark J. McBurney of ...

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