Police gang teams make their presence known
It’s close to 7pm on a Friday night and seven local police officers stand around in bulletproof vests…
Pudhorodsky arrested, awaits sentencing
After an early March trip to the state capitol on behalf of his “grassroots” lobby group Generation Y, 27-year-old Michael Pudhorodsky is now in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail awaiting sentencing for […]
Countersuit blues
Plaintiff: Alan Swanson Defendants: Bernard J. DiMuro, DiMuro Ginsberg P.C., and Katharine Almy Court: Albemarle County Circuit What’s at issue: Whether Almy and her attorneys “willfully, falsely, and maliciously” included […]
Debbie Wyatt goes to Richmond
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 […]
Hospital disqualified from charitable immunity
On the last day of February, the highest court in the Commonwealth delivered this message to aggrieved UVA hospital patients: Litigate away! The Virginia State Supreme Court rejected a plea […]
Fourth Circuit hears Bowers’ case
Dena Bowers’ lawsuit against her former employer, UVA, is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit. On March 19 in Richmond, attorneys involved in the […]
What’s in your backpack?
Year: Senior Age: 21 Hometown: Rome, GeorgiaMajor: Studio art and English Allison Harbin What’s in your backpack? Makeup, environmental science 101 notes, iPod, proofs from latest photography project about her […]
Lady Cavs roll in NCAA opener
Playing its first game of the NCAA tournament, the UVA women’s basketball team breezed past the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 86-52 on March 23 and will face Old Dominion on […]
Caught!
By Scott Weaver and Will Goldsmith On a day in 2003, Thomasine Wilson walked into Advance America on Madison Road in Orange with a checkbook from her newly opened account […]
Q: Why go to a payday lender?
More features: Caught! How Thomasine Wilson got trapped in the payday lending cycle Advance America’s pocketbookThe numbers on America’s biggest payday lender Know the scoreCredit reports 101 Leading the lending […]