Posted in Unpublished Orders on Jan 31st, 2012
In a case fraught with separation of powers issues, the Supreme Court of Virginia has refused to block or review a lawsuit challenging the General Assembly’s congressional redistricting plan . In a pair of orders issued Tuesday, the court both denied a writ of prohibition and denied an appeal of the decision by Richmond Circuit [...]
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Posted in Supreme Court Opinions on Jan 13th, 2012
University of Virginia law Prof. Kent Sinclair has been the Virginia Supreme Court’s official reporter of decisions for nearly three decades, but he gets no acknowledgement of that title in the court’s official ruling in his battle against a cell phone tower. Sinclair gets a win, however. In a five-to-two decision, the court found that [...]
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The widow of a construction worker who died after a work-related accident gets another chance to sue for negligence after the Supreme Court of Virginia reversed a trial court decision applying the workers’ comp bar. Cecilia Rodriguez filed a wrongful death suit after her husband, Ubaldo Rodriguez, died from injuries he received on a commercial [...]
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