Accusations of discovery lapses may be common in civil litigation, but what does a lawyer do when his opponent simply ignores routine discovery requests? While attorneys agree it’s rare for a litigant to make no response whatsoever to standard written ...

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Even though jurors heard about earlier legal problems for a Leb­anon doctor defending a medical malpractice case, the jury’s $2.75 million verdict will be allowed to stand, a federal judge in Abingdon has ruled. The trial against Dr. Dwight L. ...

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ROANOKE – Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons has named a 14-member panel to recommend improvements for the newly revived Judicial Performance Evaluation program. The program could be expanded to include evaluation of the state’s appellate judges, according to ...

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Less than six months after retiring from the Supreme Court of Virginia and from the demanding role of Chief Justice, Cynthia D. Kinser will resume a part-time law practice this week. Kinser, 63, starts May 5 as senior counsel with ...

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The injury claim seems straightforward. Your client was hurt in a motor vehicle accident. The other driver clearly was at fault. The other vehicle has plenty of insurance. So, why is this case not a slam-dunk winner? If the other ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has reversed itself and restored a $2.5 million wrongful death verdict, revealing disagreement among the justices on two tort law issues. In an Oct. 31 opinion, two justices switched sides on the question of a ...

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A defendant who entered a crawl space underneath a house broke and entered the house, as the crawl space was structurally part of the dwelling house; the Supreme Court of Virginia affirms defendant’s conviction of statutory burglary under Va. Code ...

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On rehearing, a divided Supreme Court of Virginia reinstates a $2.5 million jury award to the widow of a man who was killed when he drove his dump truck across a private railroad crossing and was struck by a train, ...

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HOT SPRINGS – It’s a fact of life. The judiciary has gone digital. At least five of Virginia’s seven Supreme Court justices read legal briefs on iPads, according to one of their number. Lawyers hoping to persuade appellate jurists had ...

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A trial court could not impose as a condition of probation a requirement that a convicted rapist submit to warrantless, suspicionless searches of his person, property, residence and vehicle at any time by any probation or law enforcement officer; the ...

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