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Virginians Can Protect Personal Data under New Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
2021年3月19日
企业一直在收集资金，这不是什么秘密, 购买, 多年来一直在出售消费者的个人信息. It is a safe bet that every time you interact with a company it is recording the information it receives and building a profile on you based on demographic data, 比如你的衬衫尺寸，或者你是否养了宠物, 以及你对消费品的个人偏好.Companies use this information to better market their goods and services to...
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并不是每一个法律问题都会导致激烈的诉讼. Not every lawsuit is appealed to and decided by a state’s highest court. 并非每个案例都能成为名人. 然而，每隔一段时间，一个新的法律问题就会做到这一点. 2020年12月, the Supreme Court of Virginia decided a unique legal issue that had been the subject of prolonged litigation and has since received international recognition. 约翰逊v. 萨福克市，...
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一般, fair market value is the price an asset would sell for on the open market between a 将ing buyer and a 将ing seller. 尽管措辞可能会有所不同, the definition is fairly consistent across the various fields the phrase is used. 最近, the Supreme Court of Virginia considered the specificity of this phrase in the case of Ann M. Wilburn等人. v. 安东尼·约翰·曼加诺. The phrase “fair market value” appeared in a 将 and codicil’s option...
阅读更多新型冠状病毒肺炎, 工人赔偿豁免, and Coverage under Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies
2020年12月18日
There 将 be employees who contract the coronavirus and claim they were infected by a fellow-worker at the jobsite or in the office. Then these employees 将 bring a personal injury suit against their employer to recover money damages or, 在死亡的情况下, their estate 将 bring a wrongful death action against the employer. This article outlines proposed legislation in the Congress and in the Virginia General Assembly that, 如果制定, 将...
阅读更多Virginia Supreme Court Rejects Oyster Bed Leaseholders’ Inverse Condemnation Claim
2020年12月14日
The Supreme Court of Virginia has reaffirmed its century old precedent that leaseholders of oyster beds hold limited property rights and are not entitled to make an inverse condemnation claim against a governmental entity when such entity’s actions cause damage to oyster grounds by way of causing the water running over the grounds to become polluted. 在约翰逊诉. 萨福克市， leaseholders of certain oyster grounds in the Nansemond River filed an...
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The abundance and sophistication of social media platforms has changed our society. 社交媒体正在影响我们的个人和职业世界. 在很大程度上，这是一个积极的工具. 今天, 我们可以与世界各地的人们联系, 交流思想, 并扩大我们的网络只需要点击一个按钮. 在法律界, social media has the potential to change the way attorneys search for and uncover evidence. 由于...
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截至7月1日, 2020, 系列有限责任公司,成为弗吉尼亚州法律实体领域的最新成员. Set forth in a new Article 16 of Virginia’s Limited Liability Company Act, Virginia’s act is modelled on the Uniform Protected Series Act and brings a relatively new business structure to Virginia. 本质上是传统有限责任公司的变种, 系列有限责任公司(“系列有限责任公司”)试图...
阅读更多Perfecting and Successfully Enforcing a Mechanic’s Lien and Dealing with a Lender’s Priority
2020年8月14日
It goes without saying that any mechanic’s lien must be timely filed and must meet all the statutory requirements under the applicable lien statute, 不仅是留置权申请人希望执行其留置权, but also if a lien claimant expects to have its mechanic’s lien enforced ahead of the lender’s lien, 根据当地法规完善留置权, and meet any deadline and other requirements for instituting and successfully prosecuting an...
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An Employer's Application for Hearing allows an employer to suspend or terminate workers’ compensation benefits of an injured employee who is under an open indemnity award. There are certain instances when an employer can request that workers’ compensation benefits be stopped. An employer may choose to file an Employer’s Application for Hearing and request that the injured worker’s compensation benefits be terminated if: the worker refuses vocational...
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Virginia has traditionally been viewed as an employer-friendly state. Part of that reputation arises from the fact that it had relatively few wage payment regulations and that state courts were closed to most employment-related claims. 而不是, employees had to bring their discrimination claims in federal court, 哪里有损害赔偿的法定上限, and they had to rely on the Department of Labor and Industry to pursue any wage payment claims....
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