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Loudoun judge approves predictive coding results
In the first case to approve the use of predictive coding over a party’s objection, a Loudoun Circuit Court judge has signed off on the defense’s computer-assisted review results in […]
Computer-assisted review becomes more popular
The pace for adoption of predictive coding in discovery is accelerating, say lawyers familiar with using computers for mass document review. One Virginia court was an early adopter. In April […]
Plaintiff may need total knee replacement – $575,000 Verdict
This case involved a motor vehicle accident wherein the defendant pulled out from a stop sign into the path of the plaintiff, causing a comminuted tibial plateau fracture. As a […]
Claim against ER doc in death case struck – Defense Verdict
This was a medical malpractice case involving emergency medical treatment provided to the plaintiff, at the Loudoun Hospital Center on Oct. 30, 2004. At the time of presentation, the ER […]
Jury needed only 20 minutes to find for doc in med-mal case – Defense Verdict
Plaintiff’s wife underwent surgery to remedy blocked fallopian tubes and remove abdominal adhesions. Defendant physician recommended the surgery to improve the wife’s chances of success with IVF therapy. Another physician, […]
Lawyer still practicing after suspension, gets longer suspension
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board has suspended the license of a Leesburg lawyer for five years because he continued to practice law and accepted a fee without providing services […]
Ad damnum, defamation cases settled while on appeal
Don’t look for rulings from the Supreme Court of Virginia in the Spear ad damnum case or the much-litigated defamation claim of a former Raytheon Technical Services Co. executive. Both […]
Domestic Relations – Joint Custody – Couple’s Failure – Communication
Where husband can only communicate with wife by e-mail or text messaging, under a JDR court protective order, and he testified he prefers no dialogue with wife and not to […]
Domestic Relations – Equitable Distribution – Wife’s Gambling
Although husband claimed he began depositing his paycheck in a separate account for household expenses and to prevent wife’s access to pay her gambling debts, a Loudoun County Circuit Court […]
Domestic Relations – Child Support Change – Bonus
Although husband got a $36,538 bonus in 2008, without a track record on the bonuses and with no word of a 2009 bonus as of the November hearing, a Loudoun […]
Domestic Relations – Joint Legal Custody – Daycare Provider Choice
Husband allegedly choosing his girlfriend’s daughter as an after-school daycare provider, and then switching to a friend of the daughter, is not a basis for mom to complain about the […]
P.i. plaintiffs post win on nonsuit issue
The latest battle over nonsuit rights may be heating up across Virginia. A new circuit court case clearly rejects a controversial decision last summer that dismissed a p.i. suit because […]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice – Patient suffers stroke from ruptured aneurysm
- Premises Liability- Man suffers paralysis after bench tipped back
- Medical Malpractice – Botched tubal ligation results in childbirth
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Pickup truck passenger dies from crash injuries
- Medical Malpractice-Patient received spleen injury during colonoscopy
- Medical Malpractice – Patient suffers complications from improper cyst removal
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Henrico driver sustained wrist fracture in five-car collision
- Medical Malpractice-Patient dies following blood loss in surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Defense points to plaintiff’s prior collision, stressors
- Medical Malpractice – Ingrown toenail removal leads to CRPS type 2
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
Opinion Digests
- Arbitration – Court decides whether nonparty to arbitration agreement can enforce it
- Constitutional – Circuit court applied wrong standard in church dispute
- Civil Procedure – Medical malpractice statute of limitations doesn’t apply to claims against hospital
- Bankruptcy – Creditor can’t examine debtor under Bankruptcy Code § 707(b)(1)
- Administrative – Court construes Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- Taxation – County’s tax assessment was ‘plainly wrong’
- Negligence – Release doesn’t bar rider’s negligence claim against horse owner
- Bankruptcy – Motion to reinstate Chapter 7 petition previously dismissed by court is denied
- Wills and trusts – Court applied incorrect statute of limitations to breach of trust claims
- Administrative – Doctor’s attacks on license suspension order fails
- Habeas Corpus – Petition attacking military court martial is dismissed
- Parent and Child – Stepmother awarded custody of stepchildren over father’s objection
