A Norfolk Circuit Court refuses to grant a mistrial or set aside a jury verdict for defendant based on a juror’s alleged misconduct in responding to a voir dire question about the prospective juror or an immediate family member working ...

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Plaintiff Norfolk City School Board wins summary judgment in Norfolk Circuit Court in this declaratory judgment action challenging the constitutionality of a state statute creating the Opportunity Educational Institution Board in the executive branch of the government, which has been ...

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A former bank president is not barred from suing for severance pay under his 2008 contract by federal regulation restricting “golden parachute” payments to top executives of banks that accepted TARP financial assistance, as did defendant banks; the Norfolk Circuit ...

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A series of recent legal ethics charges suggests Virginia lawyers ought to think carefully about what they say when judges demand their version of events. Three lawyers are in trouble with the Virginia State Bar after judges became skeptical about ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to disqualify plaintiff’s counsel in this med-mal suit, based on a lawyer’s change of employment from the firm defending the suit to the firm that represents plaintiff, during the pendency of the litigation; ...

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A Norfolk circuit judge has rejected an effort to unseat lawyers for a medical malpractice plaintiff just four months before trial. The disqualification motion centered on a lawyer who moved from a defense firm – where he represented the defendant ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Doyle III Medical Malpractice Norfolk Circuit Court

A defendant charged with the fatal shooting of his sister’s long-term live-in boyfriend, who testimony indicated had entered defendant’s home in an intoxicated and extremely belligerent state, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter by the Norfolk Circuit Court in a bench ...

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A three-judge circuit court panel has disbarred a Norfolk lawyer after finding he made intentional misrepresentations to a federal judge about his advice to a criminal client. The federal judge vacated the client’s convictions in 2011 based on ineffective assistance ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Jerome B. Friedman Lawyer Discipline Norfolk Circuit Court

Although a habeas petitioner says the law has changed to allow sentencing courts discretion to run sentences on firearms convictions concurrently, a Norfolk Circuit Court says the court nevertheless could have petitioner’s sentences run consecutively, and the court dismisses the ...

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An equipment operator who promptly informed his foreman that his perforated ulcer required emergency surgery, and who, after surgery, continued to inform employer that he was available for light duty, left work voluntarily and with good cause when employer did ...

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