Scanning the tabloids at the local supermarket, it is obvious that divorce cases can involve big bucks. That’s why the rich and famous often employ skilled attorneys regarding business transactions, contract negotiations, and, when necessary, family law matters. To be sure, the run of the mill divorce case in Virginia does not necessarily have the same pizazz as the latest with TomKat (the former union of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for those of you
The Virginia Court of Appeals has held that the Commonwealth’s Attorney can shift factual theories of a crime to convict two different people of the same crime. In 1987, the Commonwealth tried and convicted Lorenzo Williams of Rape and Murder. The rape victim testified that he had raped her. In 2005, Governor Warner ordered all old cases with biological evidence be tested for DNA. In 2010, such a test revealed that Mr. Williams was not
In a complex civil matter, the founder and CEO of a large publicly traded on-line banking company sued his former company for millions after he was voted off as CEO. The company, Online Resources Corporation (ORC), appealed the decision after a Fairfax County jury decided it was liable to pay over $5 million in compensatory damages and over $2 million in attorney’s fees. On appeal, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the trial court’s decision on
In one of the largest wrongful death cases Virginia has ever seen, a jury awarded a Plaintiff over $6 million dollars to compensate him for the death of his wife in a motor vehicle accident. The driver of the other vehicle was an employee of Allied Concrete Company, and lost control of his loaded concrete truck, causing it to tip over and land on the vehicle occupied by Plaintiff and his wife. The wife’s injuries
A federal Appeals Court invalided President Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). All of the Board’s actions for 2012 are invalid. (Do the taxpayers get a refund?) No new rulings from the Board are possible until members are validly appointed and there is a quorum. Without the “recess” appointments, the Board now has only a single member. An independent government agency, the NLRB investigates and prosecutes unfair labor issues and runs