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Editors' Picks
- Court of Appeals blocks State Police expungement challenge
- Quantum meruit case reversed and remanded
- Legislature narrows use of noncompetes
- 4th Circuit: ‘Common core of facts’ justified fee award
- Verdict affirmed in breach of fiduciary duty case
- Medicaid overtime lawsuit survives motion to dismiss
News in Brief
- Georgetown University student released from immigration detention after federal judge’s ruling
- Virginia GOP embraced a diverse ticket in this year’s elections. Then things got complicated
- Virginia receives $116 million tobacco settlement payment
- License plate surveillance camera regulations receive Youngkin’s endorsement
- Federal judge rules Georgetown scholar’s wrongful arrest case will stay in Virginia
- Youngkin cuts $900 million from amended Virginia budget ahead of economic uncertainty
Opinion Digests
- Criminal: Sentencing error requires resentencing
- Prisons: Suit dismissed because of failure to exhaust administrative remedies
- Bankruptcy: Reorganization plan approved despite asbestos insurer’s objections
- Criminal: ‘Erlinger’ error is subject to harmless-error review
- Criminal: Pharmaceutical executive banned from working with federal healthcare programs
- Immigration: Man fails to show he will be tortured if returned to El Salvador
- Patent and trademark: Court lacks jurisdiction over appeal involving compulsory counterclaim
Verdicts & Settlements
- Mishap during hysterectomy causes bleeding, chronic pain — $2.5 million verdict
- Woman dies after pre-surgical medication monitoring mistake — $1 million settlement
- Man hit by car on rural road while walking with his dog — $850,000 settlement
- Truck driver’s failure to yield leaves 90-year-old woman in wheelchair — $10.3 million settlement
- Long-term workplace exposure to asbestos led to mesothelioma — $2,727,417.87 verdict
- Driver hit his head after rear-end crash at red light — $100,000 settlement
- Hemorrhaging overlooked, patient dies post procedure — $1.3 million settlement
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Leaders in the Law/ Up and Coming Lawyers
October 30th, 2025 | 5:30 PM
In-House Counsel Awards
November 14th, 2025 | 7:30 AM
