By PETER DUJARDIN | The Daily Press | September 17, 2016 6:03 PM The new interim head of the Hampton Roads Regional Jail is vowing more public transparency regarding the jail’s operations — including two high-profile deaths over the past 13 months. Norfolk Sheriff Bob McCabe, a board member of the regional jail and its […]
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On July 8, 2015, Mark Krudys and aquatics expert Kim William Tyson presented a nationally transmitted webinar entitled “Litigating a Drowning Case: Practice Tips and the Law.” The presentation and related materials are available from seminarweb.com. Topics covered in the webinar include the following: Introduction of Mr. Tyson Drowning statistics Overview of the presentation – […]
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On June 4, 2015, the Supreme Court of Virginia sided with The Krudys Law Firm’s arguments that its client Laura Pendleton had properly pled a defamation by inference, implication or insinuation action. The Supreme Court’s summary of its decision follows: In a defamation action, the circuit court erred in sustaining a demurrer and dismissing the […]
On March 16, 2015, Mark Krudys filed an appeal with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concerning an inmate who was imprisoned in a Virginia jail for three months beyond his sentence.
On January 25, 2015, Mark Krudys gave a presentation to the Stafford County Chapter of the NAACP. Mark was invited by the NAACP to address current civil rights issues. Mark addressed the following topics: prisoner death cases, police shootings, sentencing guidelines, the high incarceration rate in the U.S., the effects of fines and courts costs […]
Recently, Mark Krudys has worked to advance inmates’ civil rights claims: On August 13, 2014, Mark Krudys led a nationally broadcast webinar entitled, “Jail and Jailer Liability: The Trial of a Jail Death Case.” The course covered both practical and substantive aspects of inmate death cases. The course covered the preliminary steps an attorney must take to […]
Attorneys should be aware that they risk waiving attorney-client privilege by asserting an advice of counsel affirmative defense. In an antitrust litigation, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho recently granted plaintiffs’ motion to compel certain defendants to produce documents identified on their privilege logs because they had waived attorney-client privilege by asserting […]