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RICHMOND, Virginia – EQT says a federal appeals court should reverse a lower court class certification order in an oil and gas royalties case.
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RICHMOND, Virginia – The nation’s only generic maker of mifepristone has filed a federal appellate brief claiming West Virginia’s near-total abortion ban is preempted by federal law and should be struck down.
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A federal appeals court has fortified a West Virginia policy that aims to level the playing field between policyholders and insurance companies in litigated claims, but critics say such policies ultimately increase the cost of insurance.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Trial lawyers who paid for accident reports so they could target motorists with offers to represent them in court can’t be sued under a federal law that protects personal information obtained “from a motor vehicle record.”
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CHARLESTON — A federal appellate court judge handed down a ruling shutting down challenges to Gov. Jim Justice's COVID-19 shutdowns.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiff lawyers with possibly huge government contracts scored a major victory Thursday after convincing federal judges that climate change lawsuits that would change the way the world’s oil companies do business involve mostly state law claims.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - A man who claimed he contracted nasal cancer because Georgia-Pacific and Weyerhauser failed to put warning labels on lumber lost his case after a federal appeals court agreed that “state-of- the-art” knowledge at the time didn’t support the conclusion sawdust was carcinogenic.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito praised a decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A federal appeals court decision affirming a $61 million class judgment against Dish Network over alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations has made product liability law murkier, an attorney for a corporate advocacy group said.
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BALTIMORE — Maryland's Attorney General Brian Frosh is the latest to join a coalition of 15 attorneys general that filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to argue against payday lenders using fake affiliations with Native American tribes as a way to escape state law violations when practicing predatory lending.
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A federal judge’s gag order prohibiting anyone connected to nuisance litigation against hog farms in North Carolina was probably an unconstitutional prior restraint of speech and never should have been issued, an influential judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said in oral arguments this week.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is scheduled next week to hear arguments over a broad gag order issued by a judge overseeing a series of nuisance lawsuits against North Carolina hog farms that threatened to muzzle farmers and industry organizations opposed to the litigation.
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RICHMOND, Va.(Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision to deny Rent-A-Center’s motion for summary judgment and its efforts to force an ex-employee to arbitrate his disability and race discrimination claims.
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WHEELING. W. Va. (Legal Newsline) – Individual plaintiffs in multidistrict Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation stand to pocket $38 each in a $28 million settlement proposed in federal court in March.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – As a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit prepares to consider the appeal in a case pitting a Loudoun County, Va., official and a frequent critic, the ACLU is stepping in.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) – Sharing economy litigation such as the misclassification lawsuit filed in June against Grubhub is more about governments and predatory plaintiffs than anything inevitable in cooperative consumerism, an Ohio attorney opined during a recent interview.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – In July, the 4th Circuit Court in Virginia ruled that a district court never had jurisdiction in a qui tam suit against several medical labs by the Commonwealth of Virginia over alleged Medicaid false claims, though no party or district court made the request.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - While a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling on a data breach insurance case was presented in a way that limits its impact, it's still a significant win for the insured, a Los Angeles attorney says.
