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B&K Successfully Challenges the Constitutionality of the VI Preference Statute
August 2nd, 2024
Beckstedt & Kuczynski LLP has succeeded in striking down the Virgin Islands preference statute that improperly infringed on the powers of the judiciary to control their docket and to establish scheduling orders for trial that properly took into c…
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Third Circuit Affirms Dismissal Due to Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
July 22nd, 2024
The Third Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of our client, a Texas insurance broker, finding the broker had no personal contacts with the Virgin Islands. The plaintiff was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Virgin Islands when defend…
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VI Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration Award
March 25th, 2024
The Virgin Islands Supreme Court upholds arbitration award holding that the Magistrate’s Division has the power to decide a motion to compel arbitration and to stay proceedings, which is a non-dispositive motion, and that the Plaintiff/Appellant ha…
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Court Grants Dismissal of Gross Negligence and Punitive Damage Claims Against Our Client
September 13th, 2020
Attorneys Carl Beckstedt and Emily Shoup were successful in obtaining a summary dismissal of plaintiff’s gross negligence claim and demand for punitive damages against a prominent St. Thomas timeshare, notwithstanding the Virgin Islands’ new “n…
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And the Defense Wins!
November 30th, 2018
On November 30, 2018, Carl Beckstedt and Emily Shoup of Beckstedt & Associates, together with co-counsel Jennifer Jones of Law Offices of Jennifer Jones, prevailed on behalf of the Defendant United Corporation in a jury trial in the Superior Cour…
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Beckstedt & Associates Obtains a Rule 12 Dismissal For Failure to State A Claim
April 4th, 2016
Attorney Kuczynski of Beckstedt & Associates obtained a dismissal of a complaint on behalf of his client in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Croix. The Plaintiff allegedly sustained personal injuries after being assaulted…
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Attorney Beckstedt Obtains Defense Verdict
March 6th, 2015
Attorney Beckstedt of Beckstedt & Associates obtained a defense verdict on behalf of his client in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Thomas. The plaintiff allegedly sustained numerous soft tissue injuries after slipping an…
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Claimant’s Personal Injury Claim Denied In Its Entirety
November 19th, 2014
Just months before an arbitration hearing, Beckstedt & Associates was substituted in to complete expert discovery and defend a personal injury premises liability case where both liability and damages were hotly contested. Sound preparation allowe…
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District Court Dismisses Case for Failure to State a Claim
March 6th, 2014
Beckstedt & Associates obtained a Rule 12 dismissal of a personal injury action on behalf of a major restaurant chain franchisee in St. Thomas in a negligence case brought under common law negligence. The District Court agreed that there is no ca…
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Superior Court Dismisses Case Finding No Proximate Cause
November 15th, 2013
Beckstedt & Associates obtained a summary dismissal just two days before trial in a hotly contested wrongful death case in which a local worker was killed when a slab he was unloading in St. Thomas fell on top of him. Our client was a Florida who…
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