JURIST

AUGUST 2, 2022

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Monday announced cities and counties across the state agreed to a $400 million settlement with three opioid distributors. of fueling the opioid crisis in West Virginia. West Virginia has a long history of litigation with opioid distributors. Cardinal Health Inc.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, School of Law”: The University of Virginia has posted this job opening. The post “Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, School of Law” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

“Professors Paper Explains How a Handful of Elite Lawyers Dominates Supreme Court Litigation; Mitu Gulati Explores Numbers Behind Tournament of Champions”: Mary Wood of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report. You can access the paper via this link.

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HowAppealing

MAY 23, 2023

“Xiao Wang Joins Faculty To Lead Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; Professor Launched Innovative Programs at Northwestern”: Mary Wood of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 15, 2020

In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, on March 16, 2020 the Supreme Court of Virginia entered an order declaring a judicial emergency in Virginia. The judicial emergency order limits matters being heard in Virginia courts during this time—however, courts are not closed entirely.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 20, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is raising special challenges for those facing separation, divorce, custody or support cases in Virginia. The Supreme Court of Virginia has issued an order temporarily limiting the types of cases that will be heard in Virginia. Types of Mediation in Virginia.

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Law 360

MARCH 20, 2024

Chamber of Commerce about third-party litigation funding, including from potentially hostile foreign entities, state legislatures in Indiana and West Virginia have recently passed bills imposing restrictions on the practice. Amid concerns from the U.S.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2021

The university is challenging a recent change to the Virginia state budget, which prohibits online students from receiving a tuition assistance grant.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2022

The Eastern District of Virginia rocket docket and the Northern District of Florida were last year’s fastest civil trial courts in the nation, and interviews with two of their judges reveal they have some of the same practices to keep litigation moving efficiently, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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Livesay&Myers

JUNE 5, 2024

Divorce litigation involves various legal tools and pretrial procedures that work to ensure a fair… Continue reading Depositions in Virginia Divorce The post Depositions in Virginia Divorce appeared first on Livesay & Myers, PC.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 18, 2022

Glenn Youngkin have pointed out that Virginia's General Assembly already passed a law instructing schools to adopt policies that would limit the spread of COVID-19. Critics of Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Stinnie may sound like a technical one, it has drawn considerable attention, with lawyers on both sides of the case telling the justices that their decision could have a significant impact on how civil rights cases are litigated and resolved going forward. A federal district judge in Lynchburg, Va.,

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LegalReader

JULY 13, 2021

A car accident can be traumatizing enough without having to be assaulted by a wave of costs and fees associated with recovering your health and the condition of your car, let alone the mental malaise that comes as a result.

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LegalReader

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the two plaintiffs says he laid down on the ground in surrender, but was mauled nonetheless.

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The Crime Report

MAY 26, 2022

Attorneys for the state of West Virginia and pharmaceutical manufacturers Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., Under the deal, West Virginia would receive more than $134.5 percent of the settlement will go to a nonprofit foundation established to distribute money in opioid-related litigations, 24.5 In addition, 72.5

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HowAppealing

MAY 17, 2022

“Supreme Court Takes Clinic Case on Challenges to Convictions”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report. The involvement of UVA Law’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic in this case has proved controversial (see, e.g., here and here ).

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Youngkin said that all Virginia parents should have the right to choose whether their children wear masks in school.

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Law 360

JULY 24, 2023

While suits challenging federal regulations have become commonplace, such cases against state agencies are virtually nonexistent, but many states have provisions that allow litigants to bring suit for regulations with inadequate cost-benefit analyses, says Reeve Bull at the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management.

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LegalReader

APRIL 11, 2021

Caron Nazario claims he was pulled over and pepper-sprayed for driving without plates--even though his vehicle was new enough to not need a permanent set.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2022

The victim’s attorney can also argue for less tangible damages that are tied to things like physical pain, mental suffering, and trauma associated with a collision.

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Patently O

MARCH 14, 2025

All three cases are part of consolidated multi-district litigation in the Northern District of West Virginia. This latest ruling stands in contrast to the court's January 2025 decisions upholding preliminary injunctions against Samsung Bioepis and Formycon, effectively blocking their biosimilar launches.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

ruled that a group of drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was entitled to reimbursement of their attorney’s fees because a federal district court had issued an order that temporarily barred the state from enforcing the law – and then the Virginia legislature repealed the law. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va.,

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2021

The companies also plan to argue West Virginia has been heavily affected by illegal opioids, like heroin and synthetic fentanyl, that have nothing to do with their business.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 27, 2021

The lawsuit suggests that Virginia has violated the inmate's constitutional rights by refusing to pay for breast removal surgery and other health care services.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This latest ruling is part of a wave of legislation and litigation surrounding felony disenfranchisement. New York and Virginia both restored the voting rights of felons on parole in 2021. In October 2022, the US Supreme Court was asked to review Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement provisions because of their racist origins.

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Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2024

House Representative for Virginia. Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S.

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

Department of Justice has urged a Virginia federal court not to transfer its monopolization case targeting Google's control of the ad tech space to New York, contending that antitrust actions from federal enforcers should not be included in multidistrict litigation.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In November 30 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered a third decision where it declined to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement. [3] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott , in which the chemical company had asked them to decide whether a multidistrict litigation can be bound by the results of “bellwether” trials, which are conducted as test cases to give both sides a better idea of how they might fare and to shape a potential settlement. du Pont de Nemours v.

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2021

While the Eastern District of Virginia rocket docket is no longer the nation's fastest civil trial court, it continues to keep litigation moving efficiently, with pandemic protocols resulting in new benefits for litigants, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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Livesay&Myers

MARCH 1, 2021

Litigating divorce issues is fraught with battles that are filled with arguments, vitriol, and the burning desire to “win.” In Virginia, divorce trials are public, which means anyone can sit in the courtroom and listen to the most intimate details of your personal life. Everyone knows that divorce can be war.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The employee claims that Walmart refused to take action against the now-suspected gunman, who was a supervisor at a Chesapeake, VA, store, even after he made repeated, disturbing statements to coworkers.

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LegalReader

APRIL 29, 2022

Personal injury cases are normally complicated and could get rather confusing.

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