Legal Opinion
Fleming v. Moore
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 6, 1981No. Record 781061PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
W. Bedford Moore, III, initiated this libel action against James N. Fleming in the court below. Final judgment was entered by the trial court on the jury verdict awarding Moore $10,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages.1
*887Moore was a white, tenured, assistant professor in the Humanities Division of the School of Engineering at the University of Virginia during the 1975-76 academic year. His residence known as “Shack Mountain”, located in Albemarle County, has architectural significance because of its Jeffersonian styling. The Moore land adjoined a tract known as…
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