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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A Vermont corrections department worker was unjustly fired for a 30-second exchange in which he asked if a Black colleague was cooking fried chicken, the state Supreme Court ruled, rejecting the state’s argument the firing was justified for his “very racist” remark.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - The Vermont Supreme Court won't change the window for asbestos claimants to sue, rejecting a call from a Dallas plaintiffs firm to do so.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Walking through brain matter at the scene of a gruesome accident isn't enough to sue over, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A group that opposes climate-change litigation doesn’t deserve to recover any of its legal fees in a case where it convinced a trial judge to order the Vermont Attorney General’s office to turn over some documents detailing its agreements with other AGs, the state’s highest court ruled.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A landlord can't be held liable for not building a fence around a pond in which a man whose condition kept him from recognizing dangers drowned.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Georgia-Pacific’s bankrupt Bestwall unit likely won’t be able to cash in on a $10 million insurance policy that was only in effect for 44 days in the early 1980s after the Vermont Supreme Court ruled state law sharply limits the insurer’s exposure to asbestos liability.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who sued over the suicide of a man in prison can’t proceed with her lawsuit because she failed to include an expert medical opinion with her initial complaint, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled, in a decision that drew a dissent from the court’s chief justice, who said it represented the “rare instance” when the rules should be bent.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - A Vermont public school district must pay a student nearly $500,000 over an assault that occurred when the high school football team met for a party at a private home.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) – The Vermont Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's judgment in a case involving a nurse's disclosure to a police officer that the plaintiff was intoxicated and intending to drive home after receiving treatment from an emergency room.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) – A man who was injured after his vehicle collided with a train in 2011 has lost his appeal of a judgment in the railroad company's favor.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) – The Vermont Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's ruling that dismissed a complaint by a man who claimed a local newspaper portrayed him in a false light in published articles.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Vermont has reversed a trial court ruling in a dispute between a man and his former employer over the payment of phantom shares.
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MONTPELIER, Vermont (Legal Newsline) - The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's entry of judgment to the defendants in a medical malpractice action due to the plaintiff's repeated failure to adequately respond to discovery interrogatories.
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MONTPELIER, Vermont (Legal Newsline) - The Vermont Supreme Court found that because a landlord's notice of default was defective, the landlord was not entitled to rent accrued after the wrongful eviction.
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Robinson MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - The Vermont Supreme Court ruled last week that a group of landowners do not have a constitutionally-protected property interest at stake in the installation of a cell phone tower.
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Dooley MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - The Vermont Supreme Court said last week a lower court erred in dismissing a plaintiff's claim of gross negligence against two State Police troopers who went to the wrong house when asked to do a welfare check of an elderly woman.
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Shumlin MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin last week appointed attorney Beth Robinson to serve on the state's Supreme Court.
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Surely, fathers around the country received a countless number of ties, new fishing rods and electronic gadgets they will never figure out how to use this past Sunday on Father's Day. Legal Newsline looks at 10 state attorneys general whose fathers had already given them a very special gift -- a famous last name.
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Vermont Supreme Court MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Vermont's Supreme Court will not cut its budget by five percent, as requested by Gov. Jim Douglas.