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Law school sues insurer, seeks coverage of civil racketeering case
Posted Jun 19, 2013 4:30 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Liberty University School of Law has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force its insurance carrier to defend the institution in an earlier civil racketeering case over a child-custody battle between married same-sex parents, reports Virginia Lawyers Weekly's VLW Blog.
The underlying suit, which is proceeding in federal court in Vermont, alleges that the law school participated in a conspiracy to kidnap the child whose custody was at issue and take her out of the United States…
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