Looking Back at 2009: Top Supreme Court Cases 
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Published: December 14, 2009
Tags: Supreme Court of Virginia, Year in Review
Virginia’s highest court is in transition. By early 2011, we may see four new justices on the seven-member court, in a little more than three years’ time.
The two newest justices, LeRoy F. Millette Jr. from the Court of Appeals in 2008 and S. Bernard Goodwyn from Chesapeake Circuit Court in 2007, joined the Supreme Court ...
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