Virginia Lawyers Weekly articles from April 2007

Virginia Lawyers Weekly archives from April 2007

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 2, 2007.(Mironescu v. Costner )
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Immigration Extradition - Jurisdiction - Torture Prohibition A federal district court has no jurisdiction to consider a Romanian national's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. Sect. 2241...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 2, 2007.(Barker v. Hutson-Wiley)(Coloccia v Coloccia )
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Spousal Support - Wife's Remarriage - Parol Evidence A trial court did not err in refusing to admit wife's parol evidence in support of her claim that under the parties'...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: April 2, 2007.(Harrison v. Virginia Marine Resources Comm'n )
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Marine Building Permit - Pier Construction - Post- Construction Approval A Norfolk pier owner who rebuilt the pier destroyed by Hurricane Isabel to larger dimensions and...

Virginia Supreme Court Case Summaries: April 2, 2007.(Winston v. Warden of the Sussex I State Prison)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Death Penalty - Habeas Petition - Mental Retardation A defendant convicted of capital murder of a man and a woman has his habeas petition alleging multiple claims, some of which are...

Verdicts & Settlements April 2, 2007: Va. doctor prevails in leg amputation med-mal suit.(Williams v. Ambulatory Foot & Ankle Center)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was a 62-year-old retired veteran who went to the first of two podiatrists in January 2004 with a callous on the ball of his right foot. This podiatrist diagnosed the plaintiff with an...

Verdicts & Settlements April 2, 2007: Va. man struck in head by pipe settles workers' comp claim.(Jose Marca vs. J.A. Jones/Thompkins)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff A 56-year-old union welder was struck by a large heavy pipe that slipped from a forklift-cable transport and injured his right knee, right shoulder, back, head and neck. He had a laceration to his head...

Verdicts & Settlements April 2, 2007: Va. jury delivers a defense verdict in med-mal suit.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff This is a medical malpractice action in which plaintiff alleged that an obstetrician and gynecologist was negligent with respect to the timing of a scheduled cesarean section. Plaintiff had a previous...

Verdicts & Settlements April 2, 2007: Virginia teacher in head-on crash settles for $1M.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff, a 49-year-old, single school teacher was hit head-on by a large truck on his way to work. The truck crossed the center line and pushed plaintiff's vehicle off the road. Plaintiff had to...

Ban camera phones in the workplace?
April 2, 2007... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher Dolan Media Newswires Concerned about workplace confidentiality and privacy, some employment lawyers have been urging clients to restrict employees' use of personal cellphone cameras. "It seems that almost...

How to ... Select a benefits advisor.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Bernadette Starzee Dolan Media Newswires As businesses and their employees are painfully aware, health insurance premiums are on the rise. According to a recent United Benefit Advisors/Ingenix Health Plan Survey of 8,700 employers...

Home seller can sue for wrong loan payoff.(Koschene v. Hutchinson)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Deborah Elkins It's a familiar scene for dirt lawyers. At a real estate closing, the parties sign paper after paper, secure in the knowledge that somebody has read all those papers and is looking out for their interests. ...

Further federal indictments in Reciprocal of America case is unlikely.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper The federal criminal investigation related to the implosion of Reciprocal of America appears unlikely to result in additional indictments, much to the chagrin of a forensic accountant who worked for the government on...

Va. attorneys could get more money to represent indigent juvenile defendants under proposed bill.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Attorneys appointed to represent indigent juvenile defendants would get substantially more money under amendments to legislation proposed by Gov Timothy M. Kaine. Now, those attorneys get $120 per charge, regardless...

Virginia Lawyers Weekly announces new awards program, 'Unsung Legal Heroes'.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce a new awards program, one that will honor the "Unsung Legal Heroes" working in law offices across the commonwealth. Our very successful "Leaders in...

Three steps to a slam-dunk cross-examination.
April 9, 2007... Byline: David E. Gordon Dolan Media Newswires Of everything that goes into being a trial lawyer, nothing is more difficult, more subtle or more challenging than cross-examination. Writing about cross-examination is a little bit like...

Virginia tenant sues landlord to purchase the property she occupies.(Stevens v. Miller)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Deborah Elkins A tenant who wanted to buy the home she was renting could exercise her purchase option "until June 2004" by notifying the landlord on May 5 that she wanted to buy. The tenant did not have to present a sales...

Stagnant home market leads to free upgrades, other come-ons.
April 9, 2007... Byline: David Reich-Hale Dolan Media Newswires For years, homebuilders kept up with pent-up demand for housing by constructing units at breakneck speed. Now many of those homes sit empty, while property owners turn to gimmicks to shed the...

Virginia Lawyers in the News: April 9, 2007.(Johnson, Ayers and Matthews PLC appoints Lindsay K. Grindo)(Wolcott Rivers Gates appoints Jennifer E. Damelio)(Stallings and Bischoff PC appoints Grover C. Wright Jr.)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Two attorneys have joined The Dickerson and Smith Law Group in Virginia Beach. P. Todd Sartwell will focus his practice on civil litigation, criminal defense and personal injury. He received his...

Virginia-based Williams Mullen add five real estate attorneys.(appoints Steven D. Delaney, Jennifer Hawkins McCarthy, Mark J. Kronenthal II, Lauren M. Thomas, Michael P. Nicholson )(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Five real estate attorneys have joined the Richmond office of Williams Mullen. Steven D. Delaney and Jennifer Hawkins McCarthy have joined the firm as partners, and Mark J. Kronenthal II and Lauren...

Virginia House of Delegates denies pay increase for court-appointed attorneys.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper The House of Delegates has killed the hopes of court-appointed attorneys in juvenile court for what they view as more equitable pay. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine had recommended amending a bill that provides for the waiver...

Virginia judge recognizes a conflict in the Code, but dismisses suit.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Norfolk lawyer Lowell A. Stanley believes a decision by a Newport News judge means plaintiff's attorneys file their cases in general district court at their peril. His adversary in the case, Michael L. Atlee,...

Industrial companies settle for $4M in personal injury case in Virginia.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper There was no question that Oscar D. Allen Jr. was horribly injured when a brass nozzle under high water pressure hit him in the face as he was cleaning an industrial site near Williamsburg in April 2005. The blow...

Richmond-based Hunton and Williams adds 93 attorneys in Texas.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper A very sad day for what was once a major Dallas law firm was a very good one for Hunton & Williams. The Richmond-based legal giant absorbed 93 lawyers from Jenkens & Gilchrist, the day after the Dallas firm closed...

Note to procrastinators: April 17, Tax Day, is nigh.(National Society of Accountants)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Mike Boyd Dolan Media Newswires If you're like me and you still haven't found the time or the patience to file your federal income tax return, there are a few things to keep in mind when you do finally get around to crunching the...

Virginia State Bar's former president and retired partner at McGuireWoods LLP die of heart failure.(J. Jay Corson IV)(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff J. Jay Corson IV, a former president of the Virginia State Bar and a retired partner at McGuireWoods LLP, died March 27 of congestive heart failure at his home in Oakton. Mr. Corson, 71,...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 9, 2007.(CSX Transportation Inc. v. Transportation Communications International Union)(U.S. v. Cooper)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Environmental Clean Water Act - Virginia Creek - Sewage Discharge The operator of a Bedford County, Va. trailer park violated the Clean Water Act by continuously discharging inadequately...

U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia Case Summaries: April 9, 2007.(Wyatt v. Sussex Surry LLC)(Morning Star Baptist Church v. James City)(Brice v. Jenkins)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Telecommunications Merger - SCC Order - Preemption A district court grants the State Corporation Commission's motion to dismiss plaintiff Verizon's challenge to conditions...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 9, 2007.(Rice v. Virginia Department of Social Services)(Cross v. Commonwealth)(Sprouse v. Orange County Department of Social Servs)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Sexual Abuse Finding - Disposition Reversed A finding by the Department of Social Services that a complaint that a physician father had sexually abused his two-year old daughter...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: April 9, 2007.(Jafari v. City of Richmond)(Delforn v. Melton)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Termination Of Parental Rights - Mother In Foster Care A circuit court denies a petition to terminate the parental rights of a mother who was 16 years old and in foster care...

Verdicts & Settlements April 9, 2007: Missouri drunken passenger settles in auto accident suit.(Frank Singleton v. Warren Robinson)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle operated by the defendant in the early morning hours. Defendant had a blood alcohol content of 0.24 percent. Plaintiff had a BAC of 0.22 percent. Defendant...

Verdicts & Settlements April 9, 2007: Missouri punitive damages claim leads to settlement.(Carol Lare v. William Summerlin)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The case settled on the morning of trial in anticipation of preliminary motions involving punitive damages. The defendant had a blood alcohol content of 0.11 percent at the time of the accident and was...

Verdicts & Settlements April 9, 2007: Missouri anesthesiologist prevails in epidural case.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff, a 35-year-old dwarf, had epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery of her child. Because of the plaintiff's dwarfism, placement of the epidural was difficult. Plaintiff experienced...

Verdicts & Settlements April 9, 2007: Fall by a Missouri 87-year-old results in settlement.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff An 87-year-old assisted living resident fell and sustained hip and elbow fractures while walking from her bed to the bathroom. The resident was documented by the facility to be independent in walking at...

U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia Case Summaries: April 16, 2007.(Alfal Laval Inc. v. Nichols)(Sharer v. Tandberg Inc.)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Procedure Attorney's Fees - Pension Payout The court denies attorney's fees to defendant, the wife of a former CEO that had an employment and termination agreement with plaintiff...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 16, 2007.(Gilliam v. Commonwealth)(Harper v. Commonwealth )
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Concealed Weapon - Knife A defendant who was approached at night in a drugstore parking lot and arrested for public intoxication can be convicted of carrying a concealed weapon as a...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: April 16, 2007.(Comstock Lake Pelham LC v. Clore Family LLC )
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Procedure Attorneys - Motion To Disqualify - No Termination Of Representation A law firm that represented a Northern Virginia developer under an engagement letter that applied to the...

Verdicts & Settlements April 16, 2007: Virginia jury returns $130K verdict in an auto accident suit.(Marilyn Pascale v. Stirling Fulgueiro)(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff received soft tissue/whiplash injuries when her vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant. Defendant acknowledged liability, but did not appear at trial. Defense counsel argued that most of...

Verdicts & Settlements April 16, 2007: Virginia surgeon settles allegation of gastric bypass leak.(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff A young woman underwent open gastric bypass surgery after years of diet and exercise with no success. Although surgery proceeded uneventfully, within 24 hours of the surgery, she began exhibiting...

Verdicts & Settlements April 16, 2007: Va. jury awards $150K in Roanoke auto accident suit.(Melissa L. Mattox v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Jerry E. Austin)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff This case arose from a rear end collision on May 27, 2002, when plaintiff was struck while stopped in a line of traffic on Elm Avenue in the City of Roanoke. Plaintiff was struck by Jerry Austin, a...

Verdicts & Settlements April 16, 2007: Va.-based assisted-living home settles suit over infection.(Unidentified Elderly Resident v. Unnamed Assisted Living Facility)(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff In January and February of 2005, several residents of an assisted living facility became infected with group A streptococcus bacteria. Despite the severe and invasive nature of the bacteria, the...

Commentary: Look before you nonsuit.
April 16, 2007... Byline: Aaron S. Book and Steven T. Webster As trial lawyers, we have all been saved or stymied by Virginia Code Sect. 8.01-380: The nonsuit statute. Many of you who have exercised the right to a nonsuit have taken comfort in the belief...

Letter to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff I read with great consternation the remarks made in the General Assembly by Robert Lamb and House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith in opposition to Sen. Henry Marsh's bill regarding our Commonwealth's...

Virginia general district court's defendants will not be able to remove cases after July 1.
April 16, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Defendants in general district court won't have the right to remove cases to circuit court after July 1. A constituent asked House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith to look into providing a definition for the...

Trip-and-fall plaintiff sues a Virginia mall's property manager.(Milburn v. J.C. Penney Properties Inc.)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Paul Fletcher Shirley Milburn was on her way into the J.C. Penney store at Fair Oaks Mall one day in June 2004 when she fell and hurt herself. The heel of her shoe got caught in the "transitional strip" between the mall parking...

Virginia judge interprets subjective test in Virginia Code.(GCR Inc. v. Clayton )
April 16, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper A circuit judge has ruled that that the decision of two directors to pay themselves management fees of $1.9 million was nevertheless "fair" to a closely held Subchapter S corporation. The case of GCR Inc. v. Clayton...

Virginia law firm loses its new client due to representation of a prior client.(Comstock Lake Pelham LC v. Clore Family LLC)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Deborah Elkins A Vienna law firm has been disqualified from representing the seller in an aborted multi-million dollar land deal because of the firm's prior representation of the developer that wanted to buy the property. ...

Appalachian School of Law honors two lawyers and a judge at its annual Founders Day luncheon.(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Paul Fletcher The Appalachian School of Law honored two lawyers and a federal judge at its annual Founders Day luncheon March 30. Receiving the 2007 Appalachian Service Awards were Senior U.S. District Judge James C. Turk,...

Improper 'quick take' for a Virginia school puts land case into new territory.
April 16, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Construction began on the new Matoaka Elementary School early last year in James City County, and the school is scheduled to open in September. But a judge has ruled that the county didn't acquire the site properly...

Virginia Supreme Court hires help for Richmond circuit judges.
April 16, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper The Supreme Court of Virginia has retained Justice Served, a California consulting firm, to help Richmond circuit judges manage their dockets. Richmond Chief Judge Walter W. Stout III said he expects Christopher...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 16, 2007.(Eddy v. Waffle House Inc.)
April 16, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Restaurant Service - Racist Comment In this suit under 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1981, in which plaintiffs, a group of African-American family and friends, stopped for lunch at a Waffle...

Verdicts & Settlements April 23, 2007: Virginia plaintiff's obesity complicates personal injury case.(Terry L. Henderson v. Anthony R. Conwell and Landstar Ranger, Inc.)(Brief article)
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff, a Charlottesville resident at the time of her injury, weighed over 400 pounds. She was returning from a Christmas party on Dec. 11, 2005, in Halifax County, N.C., when her vehicle was struck...

Verdicts & Settlements April 23, 2007: Virginia auto accident lead to $175K settlement.(Sylvia H. Humphries v. Teddy V. Dressler, Jr.)
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff, Sylvia Humphries, was stopped at a red light in Covington on October 25, 2002, when the car that was stopped behind her was struck from behind by a pickup truck driven by Teddy Dressler...

Verdicts & Settlements April 23, 2007: Virginia jury finds for defendant in abdominal surgery case.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff was an elderly, formerly obese woman who had a history of diabetes and anemia. However, she was otherwise described as vibrant and active. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in spring 2005....

In-house patent Virginia lawyers can do work for employer's sister company.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper An in-house patent lawyer employed by one corporation can work for a sister company so long as his employer consents and the work for the second company is performed independently and free of any conflicts of interest....

Post-verdict juror interviews: A chance to improve your game.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Edward P. Schwartz Dolan Media Newswires Although the most important work an attorney performs takes place before and during the trial, litigators have an important opportunity to learn about their effectiveness after the trial is...

Will law firms open up to Open Source software?
April 23, 2007... Byline: Dennis Kennedy Dolan Media Newswires Even as computer hardware prices continue to decline, the cost for the software needed to run them is increasing dramatically. It is now common for the costs of loading a lawyer's computer with...

Commentary: Tips on how to boost internet connectivity.(Column)
April 23, 2007... Byline: Darren Currin Sluggish browser? Do some housecleaning. Does your browsing experience feel sluggish? It may not be your connection. As you surf around the World Wide Web, your browser collects detritus from every site you...

Virginia Lawyers in the News: April 23, 2007.(P. Todd Sartwell and Gregory W. Klein)
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Two attorneys have joined The Dickerson and Smith Law Group in Virginia Beach. P. Todd Sartwell will focus his practice on civil litigation, criminal defense and personal injury. He received his...

Virginia personal injury law firm Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen names Douglas A. Barry president.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The personal injury firm of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen has named Douglas A. Barry president. As its name indicates, the Allen firm is a family shop and Barry is the first president who is not a...

Black female and former administrator of the VDOT sues for 'soft bigotry'.(Virginia Department of Transportation)(Wimbush v. Virginia Department of Transportation )
April 23, 2007... Byline: Paul Fletcher A black female former administrator for the Department of Transportation says that her boss's efforts to "help" her and "look out" for her because others in the agency didn't think a black woman could handle her job...

Virginia med-mal attorney brings a wide range of experience to Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.(Charles J. Zauzig III)
April 23, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Charles J. Zauzig III is best known as one of the state's premier medical malpractice attorneys. "It's so time-intensive that it basically pushed out everything else," Zauzig said. But Zauzig recalls his...

Virginia lawyers could pursue products liability claim in workplace injury case involving machinery.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Deborah Elkins W.VA.--Workers' comp attorneys may be missing something if a client only collects benefits pegged to weekly wages. In workplace injury cases that involve machinery, there may be a products liability claim to...

University of Richmond law school hosts 'Rule of Law' celebration.
April 23, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper About two years ago, Virginia Supreme Court Justice Donald W. Lemons spoke to a large group about his hope for a major conference on the rule of law as part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the settling of...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 23, 2007.(U.S. v. Pyles)(U.S. v. Hayes )
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Crack Cocaine - Aiding & Abetting - Sentencing - Rehabilitation A district court's refusal to give prison time instead of probation and home confinement to a defendant convicted of...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 23, 2007.(Bell v. Commonwealth)(Williams v. Commonwealth)(Berry v. Commonwealth )
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Cocaine - Certificate Of Analysis - Scientist's Knowledge Although the appellate court earlier reversed defendant's cocaine and marijuana convictions because the trial court admitted a...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: April 23, 2007.(Pacific Century Development & Realty Inc. v. Wheatland Farms LLC)(Brin v. A Home Come True Inc.)(Moran v. Commonwealth )
April 23, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Procedure Voice- Mail Recording - Motion In Limine Virginia's rules on the use of mechanical recordings of telephone conversations, including Va. Code Sect. 8.01-420.2, do not bar...

Virginia Supreme Court rebuffs city on land use twice.(Alexandria City Council v. Mirant Potomac River LLC)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Alexandria residents made it very clear to City Council that they wanted neither a coal-fueled power plant nor McMansions. Council tried to respond to the residents, but the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled on April...

Viginia State Bar dues not to increase until June 2009.
April 30, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Your Virginia State Bar dues probably won't go up until June 2009 at the earliest, and your deadbeat colleagues are a major reason that the increase will come later rather than sooner. The Virginia State Bar imposes...

Virginia. lawyer backs away from arbitration after IME turns soft-tissue claim into an orthopedic suit.
April 30, 2007... Byline: Deborah Elkins It's the classic question from contracts class. When two parties are dickering over terms of an agreement and exchanging drafts, at what point are they bound? And the classic answer, of course, is when there...

Virginia.-based McGuireWoods LLP reclaims top spot in 2007 survey of "Virginia's Largest Law Firms".
April 30, 2007... Byline: Sarah Rodriguez McGuireWoods LLP has reclaimed the top spot in the 2007 survey of "Virginia's Largest Law Firms." The Richmond-based firm reported 308 Virginia-licensed attorneys practicing within the state, up from 294 in...

Virginia Supreme Court Justice wins endorsement of the state's five largest bar groups.
April 30, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper Virginia Supreme Court Justice Donald W. Lemons was the only candidate to win the top endorsement from each of the state's five largest statewide bar groups for a vacancy on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

Virginia Appeals Court allows search in one case and not in another.(Cunningham v. Commonwealth)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Alan Cooper The Virginia Court of Appeals focused on narrow factual distinctions last week in applying the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule to searches of two homes in Lynchburg that stemmed from traffic stops. ...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 30, 2007.(IRS v. White)(U.S. v. Mathias)(Bader v. Kramer)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Plan Confirmation - IRS Claim - Partial Surrender - Ch. 13 Debtors have not "surrendered" to the IRS household property that they have retained and will continue to use, and the...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 30, 2007.(Yap v. Commonwealth)(Cunningham v. Commonwealth)(Sowers v. Commonwealth)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Escape - Conspiracy - Prison Break A defendant is convicted of conspiracy to escape from prison based on his conduct of running with another inmate from where they had been performing...

Virginia Supreme Court Case Summaries: April 30, 2007.(Philip Morris USA Inc. v. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc.)(Williams and Connolly LLP v. PETA)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Environmental - Water Permit - Standing The Virginia Court of Appeals correctly determined that The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc, an environmental conservation organization,...

Verdicts & Settlements April 30, 2007: Va. death in police-chase crash results in $2.35M settlement.(The Estate of James H. Sears v. Haywood E. James Jr.)(Brief article)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff On August 12, 2006, Lieutenant James Hurst Sears, an off-duty police officer with the Colonial Heights Police Department, was returning home after a late night workout at the police gym. As he...

Verdicts & Settlements April 30, 2007: Virginia. negligence suit settles for $140K.
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The stick being used in a piA[+ or -]ata game slipped from an 8-year-old boy's hands and flew 15 to 20 feet across a yard before striking a 12-year-old girl in her eye and causing permanent blindness...

Verdicts & Settlements April 30, 2007: Va. man receives $4M settlement for industrial job injury.(Oscar D. Allen Jr. v. Metrohose Inc. and Seal Fast Inc.)
April 30, 2007... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff On April 5, 2005, Oscar Allen was performing an industrial cleaning job for his employer at a facility in Williamsburg. The "wash down" operation required the use of water, pressurized at...