The latest news and cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia
">An invalid order, but no standing to challenge it Posted in Civil Cases, Supreme Court Opinions on Sep 17th, 2010
What happens when a judge without authority to hear an ex parte petition grants it anyway and no party has standing to object to it? You have what a concurring justice calls “a procedural Gordian knot.” The knot was tied when The Wall Street Journal attempted to enter the market to publish legal advertising in [...]
">Child-restraint law no bar to common law negligence claim Posted in Civil Cases, Supreme Court Opinions on Jun 10th, 2010
A state law that says it is not negligent to fail to restrain a child in a vehicle does not abrogate the common law duty to protect the child, a divided Supreme Court of Virginia holds today. Four-year-old Hannah Leigh Evans was seriously injured in a head-on collision after her father put her in a [...]
">Lemons gets top Inns of Court position Posted in Justices on Jun 1st, 2010
Virginia Supreme Court Justice Donald W. Lemons has been elected president of the board of trustees of the American Inns of Court. Lemons succeeds Robert K. Walsh, dean emeritus of the Wake Forest University law school. He joined the Supreme Court in 2000 after serving on the Richmond Circuit Court and the Virginia Court of [...]
">Who to sue? Who’s doing the suing? Posted in Attorneys, Civil Cases, Supreme Court Opinions on Apr 15th, 2010
Today’s crop of 18 opinions from the Supreme Court of Virginia brings additional evidence that lawyers still struggle to follow the rules about proper parties in civil actions. In Johnson v. Hart, the beneficiary of a will was dissatisfied with the work of the attorney who served as executor of the will. When she sued [...]
