RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - The family of a priest who died after falling in the hospital will be able to keep a $2 million jury verdict, after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the trial judge did not err by allowing in testimony about the dead man’s supposed explanation for why he fell.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who blamed her fall on an emergency physician’s failure to treat low blood sodium will have to go back to trial, after the Virginia Supreme Court reversed her $1.6 million jury verdict based on improper jury instructions.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - The Virginia Supreme Court ruled a teacher can sue the school district that fired him for calling a transgender student by his preferred names but avoiding using third-person pronouns at all, saying the disciplinary action may have violated the teacher’s religious rights.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – A Virginia school board can’t retaliate against a teacher who expressed his opposition to a proposed rule that would allow kids to declare themselves transgender.
FAIRFAX, Va. (Legal Newline) - A Virginia judge is set to decide whether Johnny Depp can go forward with a defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – A 70-year-old woman can pursue her malicious prosecution claims against a Virginia Kroger after staff there incorrectly reported her to authorities as a shoplifter.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - A Virginia statute that grants landowners broad immunity from lawsuits over recreational activities on their property including hunting doesn’t apply in a case where the grandson of the owners accidentally shot to death a woman in a neighboring home, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – A widower is allowed to pursue separate wrongful death lawsuits in separate states against the medical professionals he blames, the Virginia Supreme Court has ruled.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Virginia legislators have passed a bill in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision over when a lawsuit can be filed in relation to asbestos-connected conditions and injuries.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – The Virginia Supreme Court has sided with an insurance company in a suit to determine whether a woman's uninsured motorist coverage covered her child's assault on a school bus.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – A southeastern Virginia city is immune from liability for the death of a 48-year-old man in an early 2017 house fire, the Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled a minor alleging she was a 4-year-old victim of a former church leader convicted of sexual abuse and currently serving two life sentences can move forward with part of her negligence claims against the local church and national Church of God In Christ.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) — The Virginia Supreme Court has granted a nursing home's appeal and reversed a circuit court's final judgment while ordering the retrial of a case involving a nursing assistant who allegedly raped an 85-year-old resident.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – The Virginia Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a plastic surgeon sued by a woman who suffered a permanent injury after eyelid plastic surgery and was awarded $800,000 in compensatory damages by a jury.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Virginia's Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling denying a dentist's request to compel a city to limit the scope of redaction in certain billing records he requested in connection with a lawsuit.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Virginia has only partially agreed with a woman who accused a health care group of revealing her confidential medical information to other parties.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Employers owe a duty of care when an employee's family members are exposed to asbestos the employee brings home from the job, a split Virginia Supreme Court ruled Oct. 11.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – On Sept. 27, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled a cab company wasn't responsible for the death of a driver after he was shot by a passenger.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that ruled that in a Medicaid qui tam case, the relator is eligible for 28 percent of the gross proceeds of the settlement.
