Chapter 8: RSS feeds, jobs and us
Published: June 9, 2008
In this chapter, we’ll cover a few last points about the site, from RSS feeds to job-seeking to information about our company and products.
RSS feeds
One of the enhancements to Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s new site is the availability of RSS feeds.
RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, is a type of Web feed used to deliver news [...]
February 2008 Virginia Bar Exam Results 
Published: June 9, 2008
Tags: Bar passers
Editor’s Note: Below are the names of the successful candidates who sat for the February 2008 Virginia bar examination.
Congratulations!
A
Maha-Rebekah Ramos Abejuela, Sterling; Aamra Sultana Ahmad, Washington, DC; Ali Alavi, Vienna; Steven Isaiah Amchan, Arlington; Lela Marie Ames, Arlington; Charles Russell Athey, Washington, DC; Justin Allen Ayars, Norfolk
B
Nathan Dee Baney, Alexandria; Mary Margaret Barna, Springfield; Kristina [...]
Municipal - Public Employee - Grievability - FMLA Leave
Published: June 9, 2008
A city employee who had a medical release to work after illness that only restricted him from “climbing ladders,” but who was required by the city to sit out pending the city’s own medical evaluation of his condition, can grieve the resultant loss of wages through exhaustion of his paid leave and subsequent unpaid leave, [...]
Criminal - Sentence - Embezzlement - Restitution
Published: June 9, 2008
A defendant convicted of embezzlement in 1995, who on four separate occasions already has been summoned or brought before the court for his failure to obey the court’s orders that he make restitution, again appears before the court for the same failure, and the Fairfax Circuit Court has “no choice but to incarcerate the defendant.”
To [...]
Civil Procedure - Attorney’s Fees – Continuance – Hearing
Published: June 9, 2008
A Fairfax Circuit Court is obliged to hold an evidentiary hearing to consider plaintiff’s request for attorney’s fees in light of the court’s earlier grant of a continuance to allow defendant to be with his mother who had fallen, and then defendant having been observed in the company of his mother later that same evening [...]
Domestic Relations - Vermont Civil Union – Dissolution
Published: June 9, 2008
A Roanoke County Circuit Court recognizes that the “civil union” entered into by two women in the State of Vermont is void in Virginia, and the court cannot otherwise order any relief to a complainant who filed a petition asking the court “to dissolve or annul” the relationship so that her former partner “may not [...]
Real Estate - Partition – Buyout Showing
Published: June 9, 2008
In this suit in which a creditor is seeking to collect a $86,400 judgment debt from defendant John W. Gray, who owns a $310,000 townhouse in Portsmouth together with his mother and his wife, the Portsmouth Circuit Court denies the defendant co-owners’ motion to strike the creditor’s complaint for partition pursuant to Va. Code § [...]
Domestic Relations - Support Arrearage – Contempt
Published: June 9, 2008
Although husband contends the final divorce decree entered in 1987 contained no starting date for his monthly spousal support payments of $175, the decree expressly ordered that the parties’ agreement, which provided a start date of Aug. 1, 1987, was “affirmed, ratified and incorporated” into the divorce decree, and the Court of Appeals upholds the [...]
Domestic Relations - Property Settlement – Transcript
Published: June 9, 2008
Because husband failed to file a transcript of statement of facts on the trial court’s evidentiary hearing to determine the validity of the “Stipulation” signed by the parties calling for husband to pay wife $166,000 in settlement of her property claims, the Court of Appeals cannot consider on appeal whether the trial court erred in [...]
Traffic Offenses - Felony Homicide – Involuntary Manslaughter – Hit-And-Run
Published: June 9, 2008
A drunken driver who left the scene of her first traffic accident and promptly struck a pedestrian, causing his death, before again fleeing the scene, can be convicted and sentenced for both aggravated involuntary manslaughter and felony homicide without violating double jeopardy protections, the Court of Appeals holds.
Applying Blockburger v. U.S., 284 U.S. 299 (1932), [...]
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