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 have been settled under confidential terms, less than two weeks ...

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In this suit in which a contractor alleges injuries from the explosion of a ship’s propane tank as he refilled it on land for a commercial fishing operation, a Richmond U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss defendant ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court will enforce a settlement between plaintiffs and defendant lawyer and his firm for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act even though the parties did not reduce the terms of the settlement to a ...

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A prisoner’s suit alleging defendants failed to protect him from assault by a cellmate at Lawrenceville Correctional Center, despite his repeated requests for a transfer, is remanded by a Richmond U.S. District Court to state court. Defendant GEO Group Inc., ...

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Metropolitan Richmond area judges came up with a wish list for motions practice at the area bar associations’ annual bench-bar conference in Richmond on Oct. 21. Chesterfield General District Court Judge Pamela O’Berry sounded a little wistful when she said ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court has personal jurisdiction over defendants, non-Virginia entities and individuals, who allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud plaintiff Chesapeake Bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by submitting fraudulent invoices for their business of ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion to remand her personal injury action to state court, rejecting her argument that removal came too late because it occurred more than one year after commencement of the action, i.e., the date ...

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A night dock supervisor accused of stealing computers from a loading dock has hung on to his $1.7 million award from a Richmond federal jury. Ruling last month on post-trial motions, Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne upheld the ...

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In this malicious prosecution case, a Richmond U.S. District Court vacates a jury’s awards against two employees of a trucking company with some involvement in the company’s investigation of a night dock supervisor’s alleged theft of three computers from a ...

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In this patent infringement case, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants defendant’s motion to disqualify Steptoe & Johnson LLP as lawyers for plaintiff Sunbeam, as one of Steptoe’s lawyers previously worked for a different law firm that represented defendant company, ...

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