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Editors' Picks
- Reboot: Well-Being Week in Law returns for 2024
- Student’s due process, Title IX claims survive dismissal again
- Insurer can’t ‘cherry-pick’ evidence to support denial
- Negative connotation: Court won’t ‘oust’ ex-school official’s defamation claim
- Court rejects request for accounting from attorney
- No civil penalties for public weeds
News in Brief
- State bar seeks volunteers to run for special election
- Company fined $650K for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants
- Family of Irvo Otieno criticizes move to withdraw murder charges against 5 deputies
- CPF Board pays $182K to reimburse clients
- Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners
- Jury at Abu Ghraib civil trial might not be able to reach verdict, judge says
Opinion Digests
- Bankruptcy: Joint tenancy not exempt from IRS lien
- Civil Rights: Trooper denied immunity for assault of teenager
- Civil Service: Electoral board sued by former general registrar
- Constitutional: West Virginia transgender sports law violates Title IX
- Criminal: District court erred when it denied compassionate release
- Criminal: Court affirms gang members’ convictions
- Environmental: Mining prohibition does not extend to transferee
- Intellectual Property: Timberland boots denied Lanham Act protection
- Arbitration: ‘Candy Crush’ lawsuit headed to arbitration
- Constitutional: Lawsuit challenging Virginia broadband statute dismissed
- Consumer Protection: Mercedes-Benz fails to dismiss Lemon Law suit
- Employment: Suit against federal agency transferred to Virginia
- Employment: Inova prevails in COVID-19 vaccination lawsuit
- Evidence: Witnesses not required to travel for depositions
Verdicts & Settlements
- 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
- Plaintiff burned in flash fire while cleaning engine — $23M settlement
- Motorcyclist’s leg partially amputated in collision — $2M settlement
- Speeding vehicle struck, pushed truck into plaintiff — $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