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Editors' Picks
- Heightened duty of care: Hotel guest’s slip and fall case heads to jury trial
- ‘Blanket privilege’ denied in vaccine suit
- Clerk’s error results in untimely attorneys’ fees request
- Timberland again refused trademark for design features
- Reboot: Well-Being Week in Law returns for 2024
- Student’s due process, Title IX claims survive dismissal again
News in Brief
- Virginia governor swiftly signs compromise budget deal
- General Assembly poised to vote on compromise budget deal reached with Youngkin
- In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
- Budget leaders reach compromise with Youngkin on state spending plan
- Virginia judge to decide whether state law considers embryos as property
- Court rules North Carolina Catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online
Opinion Digests
- Appeals: En banc court won’t rehear untimely appeal case
- Antitrust: Sherman Act claims dismissed as untimely
- Civil Practice: Plaintiff’s reconsideration motions are denied
- Employment: Court narrows race bias suit against sheriff
- Employment: Professor sues university for bias, retaliation
- Employment: Employees sue over faulty body scanners, strip searches
- Employment: School board prevails on ADA accommodation claim
- Evidence: Court to review minor’s records in camera
- Insurance: Prevailing plaintiff denied attorneys’ fees
- Negligence: Elevator company dismissed from personal injury suit
- Negligence: Lack of notice dooms tort claim
- Attorneys: Ex-attorney’s suit over disbarment dismissed
- Civil Practice: No basis to reconsider order dismissing claims
- Employment: Former employee’s ADA claims dismissed
Verdicts & Settlements
- Motorcyclist forced off highway by tanker truck — $7.75M verdict
- Man run over by rail car has above-knee amputations — $2M settlement
- Car crash caused death of 7-month-old fetus — $1.7M settlement
- Man run over, killed while performing bridge repairs — $325,000 settlement
- Nurse unable to return to work after rollover crash — $3.5M verdict
- 4-year-old child in daycare assaulted by teacher — $550,000 settlement
- Patient sustained nerve injury after oral surgery — $1M settlement
EVENTS
Hall of Fame
May 23rd, 2024 | 5:30 PM
Leaders in the Law/ Up and Coming Lawyers
October 22nd, 2024 | 12:00 AM