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Defamation claim for ‘client complaint’

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Defamation, Judge James R. Spencer

To the catalogue of actionable statements in the work place, employment lawyers can add a transit company executive’s statement to a plaintiff’s supervisor, alleging receipt of a client complaint against the plaintiff.
Pro se plaintiff Emmett Jafari worked for Greater Richmond Transit Company for two years beginning in February 2006, according to Jafari v. Old Dominion […]

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4th Circuit not up for ‘reading tea leaves’

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Judge James R. Spencer, Sentencing

Maybe a defendant convicted of drug conspiracy deserves a break because most of his crack distribution occurred during the three-year period before he turned 19.
But what if the defendant, “K-Smooth,” was one of the few members of the 30-odd defendants from Petersburg’s “Third Ward Gang” to go to trial in Richmond federal district court? Criminal […]

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