Law 360

MARCH 20, 2024

Chamber of Commerce about third-party litigation funding, including from potentially hostile foreign entities, state legislatures in Indiana and West Virginia have recently passed bills imposing restrictions on the practice. Amid concerns from the U.S.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, School of Law”: The University of Virginia has posted this job opening. The post “Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, School of Law” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

MAY 23, 2023

“Xiao Wang Joins Faculty To Lead Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; Professor Launched Innovative Programs at Northwestern”: Mary Wood of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2022

The Eastern District of Virginia rocket docket and the Northern District of Florida were last year’s fastest civil trial courts in the nation, and interviews with two of their judges reveal they have some of the same practices to keep litigation moving efficiently, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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The Crime Report

MAY 26, 2022

Attorneys for the state of West Virginia and pharmaceutical manufacturers Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., Under the deal, West Virginia would receive more than $134.5 percent of the settlement will go to a nonprofit foundation established to distribute money in opioid-related litigations, 24.5 In addition, 72.5

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 20, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is raising special challenges for those facing separation, divorce, custody or support cases in Virginia. The Supreme Court of Virginia has issued an order temporarily limiting the types of cases that will be heard in Virginia. Types of Mediation in Virginia.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2021

The university is challenging a recent change to the Virginia state budget, which prohibits online students from receiving a tuition assistance grant.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 15, 2020

In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, on March 16, 2020 the Supreme Court of Virginia entered an order declaring a judicial emergency in Virginia. The judicial emergency order limits matters being heard in Virginia courts during this time—however, courts are not closed entirely.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Youngkin said that all Virginia parents should have the right to choose whether their children wear masks in school.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2021

The companies also plan to argue West Virginia has been heavily affected by illegal opioids, like heroin and synthetic fentanyl, that have nothing to do with their business.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 27, 2021

The lawsuit suggests that Virginia has violated the inmate's constitutional rights by refusing to pay for breast removal surgery and other health care services.

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Law 360

JULY 24, 2023

While suits challenging federal regulations have become commonplace, such cases against state agencies are virtually nonexistent, but many states have provisions that allow litigants to bring suit for regulations with inadequate cost-benefit analyses, says Reeve Bull at the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management.

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HowAppealing

MAY 17, 2022

“Supreme Court Takes Clinic Case on Challenges to Convictions”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report. The involvement of UVA Law’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic in this case has proved controversial (see, e.g., here and here ).

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Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2024

Media companies Gannett and the Daily Mail, which are part of multidistrict litigation in New York accusing Google of monopolizing digital advertising technology, have asked a Virginia federal court overseeing a related case from the U.S. Department of Justice for permission to access expert evidence.

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LegalReader

JULY 13, 2021

A car accident can be traumatizing enough without having to be assaulted by a wave of costs and fees associated with recovering your health and the condition of your car, let alone the mental malaise that comes as a result.

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

Department of Justice has urged a Virginia federal court not to transfer its monopolization case targeting Google's control of the ad tech space to New York, contending that antitrust actions from federal enforcers should not be included in multidistrict litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In November 30 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered a third decision where it declined to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement. [3] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The employee claims that Walmart refused to take action against the now-suspected gunman, who was a supervisor at a Chesapeake, VA, store, even after he made repeated, disturbing statements to coworkers.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A Virginia county has accused Eli Lilly and others of scheming to inflate insulin prices and control the market for diabetes medicine in violation of racketeering and consumer protection laws, adding to a flood of litigation over the life-saving drugs.

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LegalReader

APRIL 11, 2021

Caron Nazario claims he was pulled over and pepper-sprayed for driving without plates--even though his vehicle was new enough to not need a permanent set.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2022

The victim’s attorney can also argue for less tangible damages that are tied to things like physical pain, mental suffering, and trauma associated with a collision.

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2021

While the Eastern District of Virginia rocket docket is no longer the nation's fastest civil trial court, it continues to keep litigation moving efficiently, with pandemic protocols resulting in new benefits for litigants, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

West Virginia's attorney general on Tuesday predicted that opioid litigation settlements will ultimately funnel $1 billion into the Mountain State to alleviate rampant narcotic abuse, a forecast that coincided with CVS Pharmacy and Walmart signing deals worth nearly $150 million.

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LegalReader

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the two plaintiffs says he laid down on the ground in surrender, but was mauled nonetheless.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 16, 2022

The value of your non-economic damages depends on the severity of your injuries and how significantly they impacted your life.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott , in which the chemical company had asked them to decide whether a multidistrict litigation can be bound by the results of “bellwether” trials, which are conducted as test cases to give both sides a better idea of how they might fare and to shape a potential settlement. du Pont de Nemours v.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A Virginia bankruptcy judge entered an order Friday approving a confidential settlement ending a suit by the litigation trust established by Toys R Us' Chapter 11 plan against a group of the toy retailer's former executives.

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LegalReader

APRIL 29, 2022

Personal injury cases are normally complicated and could get rather confusing.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Accident victims may also be concerned about affording legal fees in addition to their medical costs.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

An investigation by the Courthouse News Service , in which journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses, found that, while clerks could give free access to a “vault” of historical records, they were caught in a web of payments required by the Richmond, Va.,-based

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Courts are themselves a key part of the access to justice problem: opaque, duplicative and confusing court forms and burdensome filing processes make accessing the civil justice system deeply inefficient for the sophisticated, and an impenetrable maze for the 70+% of civil litigants who don’t have a lawyer.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Capital One customers have urged a Virginia federal court to give its blessing to a $190 million deal with Capital One and Amazon that would resolve claims stemming from the bank's 2019 data breach, telling the court that the agreement is one of the biggest settlements in multidistrict data breach litigation.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2022

This latest lawsuit comes amid a wave of litigation and settlements relating to the United States’s opioid epidemic. On Tuesday a group of West Virginia localities reached a settlement with three opioid manufacturers for $400 million after officials accused the manufacturers of fueling the epidemic.

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LegalReader

MARCH 30, 2022

Dog owners might employ many defenses to avoid blame for a dog bite occurrence.

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