In a former UVa associate dean’s defamation suit against Rolling Stone magazine for its portrayal of plaintiff’s response to a student’s claim about being gang-raped at a fraternity party, the Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion to compel the ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

In a psychiatric patient’s suit alleging sexual assault by a hospital staff member, the Lynchburg Circuit Court overrules defendant hospital’s demurrers and holds that plaintiff has stated a claim under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act and a claim for negligence ...

Tagged with: Judge F. Patrick Yeatts Lynchburg Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a woman’s suit against a VA hospital and a van transport provider alleging defendants failed to stabilize her husband who died during his transport from a dialysis treatment that ended one hour prematurely; plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A bank wins summary judgment in a suit by a fired employee who was monitored by the bank after he made post-termination threats against the bank and continued to appear at bank branches; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former tax auditor for the Virginia Employment Commission who alleges she was not rehired to a temporary position because of defendants’ references stating she “sent threatening emails” to one defendant and “threatened to stab her supervisor” during her prior ...

Tagged with: Judge M. Hannah Lauck Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A physician at a pain center may sue defendant drug store chain for defamation for allegedly telling patients the drug store would no longer fill the physician’s prescriptions because the physician prescribed too many pain pills and was “under investigation”; ...

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

A government contractor that is suing a competitor for a U.S. State Department security contract on state law claims for tortious interference, misappropriation of trade secrets and fraudulent inducement in its settlement of a suit over the competitor’s hiring of ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Supreme Court of Virginia revives plaintiff’s claim that defendant physician defamed him when she falsely stated on a workers’ compensation form that defendant had post-traumatic stress disorder; the circuit court acted prematurely in holding that a medical opinion is ...

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Plaintiff’s Jeep Cherokee was wrongfully repossessed on May 27, 1998. On July 20, 2015, plaintiff’s case for wrongful repossession (trespass and conversion) was tried by a jury of seven in the Richmond Circuit Court presided over by Judge Phillip L. ...

Tagged with: Judge Phillip L. Hairston Million-Dollar Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court Tort

Seventeen years after a vehicle repossession went awry, a Williamsburg businessman has recovered against the repo company whose actions hurt his reputation and cost him clients. On July 10, a Richmond jury awarded more than $2 million to George T. ...

Tagged with: Judge Phillip L. Hairston Million-Dollar Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court Tort