It was a busy week in Richmond for Charlottesville attorney Debbie Wyatt: She argued three cases before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, including the Monroe vs. City of Charlottesville, the DNA dragnet lawsuit, and Stephens vs. Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, a $16 million lawsuit that arose from the death of Wayne Stephens in an explosion at the Ivy Landfill. (For more on the third case, Dena Bowers vs. UVA, click here.) Wyatt seemed as energetic as ever after all the high profile arguments—the Stephens case was heard by retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, before whom Bowers had appeared twice at the nation’s highest court. “I told people I was really disappointed that she didn’t remember me,” jokes Wyatt. “I remember her.”
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