An Abingdon U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to an officer who alleged­ly used excessive force when he responded to a woman’s call that her husband was depressed and had made suicidal statements and she thought he had taken a ...

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An Abingdon U.S. District Court upholds a $2.05 million award, reduced from the jury’s $2.75 million award, in this medical malprac­tice case filed by the family of a man who died of a pulmonary embolism three weeks after defendant emergency ...

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With electronic filing, missing a deadline can be a matter of seconds. A lawyer for the former chief financial officer of the scandal-plagued Bristol utilities agency is asking for forgiveness for a one-minute delay in filing post-trial pleadings. Motions for ...

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An Abingdon U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Russell County Department of Social Services, its board and plaintiff’s supervisor, on a female social worker’s Title VII religious and gen­der bias claims. Plaintiff did not have a good working ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Defendant husband and wife who owned and operated Bristol Laboratories LLC to conduct drug-screen testing are convicted of health care fraud after a bench trial in the Abingdon U.S. District Court; however, the court finds the husband and wife not ...

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Plaintiff states claims for unlawful sei­zure and excessive force against defendant state trooper, allegedly a friend of her hus­band who seized her and took her away for an involuntary psychiatric examination when plaintiff and her husband were having marital difficulties; ...

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A utility company’s chief financial officer facing federal corruption charges success­fully invoked the adverse spousal testimo­ny privilege and her husband, a Virginia state court judge, cannot be forced to testify against the defendant, says an Abingdon U.S. District Court. Settled ...

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An Abingdon U.S. District Court dis­misses criminal charges against a psychi­atrist who operated a pain-management clinic and who is charged with unlawfully prescribing certain drugs; defendant is un­likely to be restored to competency to stand trial after in-patient treatment and ...

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In plaintiffs’ suit alleging defendant mining company, faced with getting rid of excess wastewater from an underground coal mine and prohibited from discharging the water into local streams, diverted the water into underground mine voids located beneath plaintiffs’ land, the ...

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In defendant’s criminal case, the Abingdon U.S. District Court says that the July-August 2006 edition of the Kelley Blue Book Official Guide for Used Cars offered to value a vehicle the government alleges defendant sold to her employer likely falls ...

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