A lawsuit claiming thousands of Virginia inmates have been unfairly denied parole should be dismissed because early release is discretionary and proper procedures have been followed, a lawyer for the state told a federal judge last week. An attorney for ...

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Denounced by plaintiffs’ lawyers, the groundbreaking decision in Spear v. Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority has found few friends in the Virginia judiciary. The latest judge to reject the “once-and-for-all ad damnum” rule of Spear is Franklin County Circuit Judge William ...

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A man who moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia and sought to have his Section 8 voucher for public housing accepted for rental assistance in Virginia does not have a private cause of action to sue for an alleged violation of ...

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In this suit for specific performance filed by an LLC requesting that defendants convey their partnership interests in the Lee School Lofts Partnership to Lee School at the price purportedly dictated by the Limited Partnership Agreement, a Richmond U.S. District ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court grants summary judgment for defendant school administrators accused of violating the due process rights of a female high school student suspended for 10 days after other students observed her performing oral sex on a male student ...

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In a discovery dispute in DuPont’s suit against Kolon Industries alleging trade secret misappropriation, theft of confidential business information and conspiracy, a Richmond U.S. District Court says Kolon is entitled to a cover e-mail DuPont in-house counsel sent to an ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court upholds a bankruptcy court’s denial of a bank’s motion for reconsideration of a decision that granted a bankruptcy trustee’s counterclaim to avoid a bank’s deed of trust and gain title to certain real estate, to ...

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A jail inmate who was diagnosed with a mass in his chest prior to his incarceration, and who repeatedly complained about breathing difficulty, loss of consciousness and other symptoms during his incarceration, may pursue claims for deliberate indifference to his ...

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A plaintiff who won a med-mal verdict against a surgeon who allegedly failed to timely diagnose a colonic obstruction and perform emergency surgery wins $2,707 in costs, in addition to his $2 million award, reduced to $1.8 million under Virginia’s ...

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Plaintiff, an unincorporated association of homeless and formerly homeless people, has its suit challenging the location of a new center for homeless services dismissed by a Richmond U.S. District Court. Plaintiff is “A Society without a Name, for People without ...

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