The VLW Blog
Breaking news, legal opinions and other information of interest to Virginia lawyers.
Author: This is the law blog of Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a newspaper based in Richmond, Va. "The newspaper reports all decisions issued by the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Also featured are hundreds of rulings from state Circuit Court judges, U.S. District Court judges, U.S. Bankruptcy Court judges, the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission and other state agencies. News coverage highlights changes to court rules, verdict & settlement reports, bar-discipline notices and all other news vital to Virginia lawyers."
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Recent Posts from The VLW Blog
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Vick bankruptcy hearing
Michael Vick’s efforts to reorganize his finances through bankruptcy continues to be bogged down by difficulty in determining just what he has – and where it has gone. The Daily Press has an account of…
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Reveley is the man
W. Taylor Reveley III is no longer interim president at the College of William and Mary. The college’s board of visitors decided yesterday to forego a national search to fill the position and named Reveley…
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Justice Millette invested
LeRoy F. Millette Jr. was formally invested today as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who elevated Millette from Prince William County Circuit Court to the Virginia Court of…
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Boy Scout sues for food poisoning
A Boy Scout who was infected by a toxic strain of E. coli at a Virginia scout camp today filed suit against a California food supplier, according to a law firm news release. The suit…
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Give it up, 4th Circuit says
A tug of war over disability plan documents has been remanded to an Alexandria federal district court for the second time by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. AT&T denied long-term disability benefits under…
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UR law professor wins Fulbright scholarship
University of Richmond law professor Joel B. Eisen will be a Fulbright Scholar at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing next spring. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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Governor announces storm emergency
From the governor’s office: Governor Timothy M. Kaine dec*lared a state of emergency today, directing state agencies to take all reasonable actions necessary to protect the health and safety of Virginians from the potentially damaging…
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W&M’s Reveley may stay in president’s office
An e-mail sent to the community of the College of William & Mary suggests that interim president Taylor Reveley may lose his “interim” status. The Daily Press has details here with a link to the…
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What not to cite
In this week’s VLW, Deborah Elkins recounts the unfortunate experience of a lawyer who went to court with the wrong weapon. The lawyer argued using a case that — unknown to him — had been…
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Break-room comments no basis for suit
What are the boundaries for break-room chatter about the current presidential campaign? As this historic campaign heats up, employers may wonder about how or whether to monitor workplace political discussion. Hot-button issues of race and…