Decedent was a 10-year-old student at a Northern Virginia public school. During an after-school program, he was asked by a teacher to help operate a motorized partition that separated two rooms. To better hear the teacher on the other side ...

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This wrongful death case settled at mediation two weeks prior to trial with no offers being made until the mediation. On March 7, 2017, the defendant had a medical event that caused him to cross over the grassy median and ...

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Plaintiff, a minor, and his mother, filed suit alleging that an obstetrician mismanaged a shoulder-dystocia delivery. Plaintiffs alleged that an inexperienced obstetrician incorrectly performed maneuvers to release the dystocia, and as a result, the child suffered a severe brachial plexus ...

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Ignoring GOP warnings of a cloud over her continued service and a looming political showdown over a full term, Justice Jane Marum Roush continued to hear cases at the Supreme Court of Virginia this month. Roush sat on the high ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Judge Jane Marum Roush Supreme Court of Virginia News

A resolution to questions about the future of Virginia’s newest Supreme Court justice was nowhere in sight this past week with Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe locked in a stalemate with Republican legislators. McAuliffe on Aug. 26 affirmed his determination to ...

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Lawyers who won $9.4 million for an aircraft manufacturer burned in a merger deal also scored what may be a record fee award in Virginia courts. In her last court hearing as a Fairfax County circuit judge, now-Supreme Court Justice ...

Tagged with: Corporations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jane Marum Roush Million-Dollar Verdicts

Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush to the Supreme Court of Virginia Monday. She will succeed Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr., whose retirement is effective Friday, July 31. Roush has served on the Fairfax bench since ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to sever and says his charges for a murder committed in 2003 will be tried with his charges for similar murders committed in 2013 and 2014; the commonwealth’s proffered evidence suggests the defendant’s ...

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A client whose legal malpractice complaint alleges it did not follow defendant law firm’s advice about its patent application that was “buried” within an amendment to a draft response to a patent examiner has not alleged the firm breached the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Jane Marum Roush Virginia Court of Appeals

Lawyers who have given sound advice may think they need not worry about being sued by clients. Not necessarily. Giving sound advice is one thing. Getting the client to follow the advice is another. A disappointed client sued a law ...

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