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Scott Hoover apparently will have to go it alone in his quest for reimbursement from the Virginia Lottery.
Hoover is the Washington & Lee University professor who challenged the state lottery system on its advertised odds for certain scratch-off games.  He claimed that he had no chance of winning the grand prize advertised on his lottery […]

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As evidenced by this article from the Rocky Mountain News, Virginia is not the only state battling claims that its scratch-off lottery games are unfair because tickets were still being sold after the big prizes had all been won. In addition to a lawsuit pending in Colorado, the paper says that a $20 million […]

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When Dr Karen Alldredge of Salem was bounced from her practice group of ER physicians, she did not sue her colleagues who voted her off their island; instead, she sued the hospital that, she claims, wrongly forced her colleagues to fire her. The Roanoke Times reports on the lawsuit against the Lewis-Gale Medical Center. The […]

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Lawyers’ business clients have used arbitration for years to resolve commercial disputes.
But there’s business, and then, there’s bidness.
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar had a case in Norfolk federal district court last month, Al-Haddad Commodities Corp. v. Toepfer Int’l Asia PTE Ltd. (VLW 007-3-147), that pitted an international commodities trader against an agricultural commodity […]

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