The Supreme Court of Virginia has set aside a $900,000 judgment for an emergency-room doctor who said hospital officials pressured her practice group to fire her because she supported disgruntled ER nurses. A Roanoke City jury awarded the damages to ...

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr. died May 30 at a convalescent center near his home in Covington. He was 89. Justice Stephenson served on the court from 1981 until 1997 and was active as a senior justice ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled that a legal malpractice suit alleging that a law firm had missed a deadline for filing an estate tax return was itself filed too late. The co-executors of an estate filed suit in ...

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ROANOKE—The Supreme Court of Virginia expects to have plenty of data to back up its proposal for realignment of judicial boundaries when it hands the plan to the General Assembly in November. Legislators proposed a judicial realignment plan in the ...

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Four leaders of the House Courts of Justice Committee want to know whether any judges seeking reelection during the 2012 General Assembly session have applied a controversial 2011 Supreme Court case on deferred judgment. In an April 27 letter to ...

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ROANOKE—Virginia Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser has sounded a note of polite resistance to General Assembly efforts to expand the legislature’s control of the state’s courts. In her inaugural State of the Judiciary address at the Virginia Judicial Conference in ...

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Members of the House and Senate were still negotiating at press time to settle on candidates to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Virginia, with Court of Appeals Judges Elizabeth A. McClanahan and Cleo E. Powell apparently acceptable ...

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A deal may be in the works to elevate two Virginia Court of Appeals judges to the Supreme Court of Virginia and replace them with Gov. Bob McDonnell’s former law partner and a Portsmouth circuit judge. Judges Elizabeth A. McClanahan ...

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A divided Supreme Court of Virginia has held that six MRIs performed by a radiology group over three years amounted to continuous treatment of a woman who suffered from numbness and pain on the right side of her face. Because ...

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The state appears unlikely to get any new judges elected before April 25 at the earliest, although the General Assembly moved closer to filling two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Virginia. The Republican caucus in the House of Delegates ...

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