A parent who claimed she was improperly arrested and prosecuted for protesting the dismissal of her son from school can proceed with her civil rights claims in federal court. Because the claims sought damages against defendants, and were not an ...

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A university medical school and two doctors did not discriminate, retaliate or subject the plaintiff doctor to a hostile work environment. Background Afraaz R. Irani filed suit against Palmetto Health; the University of South Carolina School of Medicine; David E. ...

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Where drug manufacturers provided adequate warnings to a patient’s treating physician but the treating physician did not make the patient aware of the risks of taking the drug, and the patient experienced a known side effect and died, the manufacturers ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Per Curiam Opinion Products Liability

A defendant was entitled to be resentenced where his base level offense was increased after the trial court incorrectly concluded that his prior conviction for assaulting, beating or wounding a law enforcement officer while resisting arrest constituted a crime of ...

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Reunification with their mother was not shown to be in the best interests of the children where the children were thriving in their new placements with close relatives and the mother had not demonstrated that she understood the seriousness of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a judge failed specifically to ask jurors whether they had seen a newspaper article, published two days before the they began deliberating, that included a headline indicating the judge had described the defendant as “not a truthful person,” the ...

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The trial court did not err in terminating a father’s parental rights where the record showed he was incarcerated during most of his daughter’s time in foster care, he only made contact once when he was out of jail, he ...

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A medical malpractice claim for injuries sustained during childbirth did not accrue until the child’s second birthday because unrebutted expert testimony indicated that the cause of the injury could not have been determined before that date. Background Erick, a minor ...

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Where a defendant facilitated the award of a contract to a private company whose owner was issuing payments to him for fraudulent invoices submitted to another one of his companies,  the defendant’s bribery conviction is upheld. Background Appellant Raushi J. ...

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A defendant who had been declared incompetent to stand trial can be medicated to achieve competency; the medication was unlikely to have side effects that would undermine the defendant’s ability to receive a fair trial. Background Appellant Richard Leroy Abney ...

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