AG sues over federal health care overhaul

Clerks may record court proceedings

By Peter Vieth
Published: August 20, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

A new Attorney General opinion gives the green light for Virginia court clerks to make and sell recordings of court proceedings. It has been met with widely varying reactions in the legal community. Some clerks have embraced recording technology, finding it helps ensure accuracy for judges and clerks while providing a cost-effective way for litigants [...]

Healthcare challenge advances in federal court

By The Associated Press
Published: August 9, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Constitutional, Federal Courts, Health Care Bill, Judge Henry E. Hudson

(AP) An Oct. 18 hearing before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson will be the next major proceeding in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s challenge to a key element of the Obama administration’s health care reform package. A spokesman for Cuccinelli said the office expects to file a motion for summary judgment that would give [...]

AG says Virginia police can query immigration status

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 9, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Immigration

Police in Virginia have authority similar to those in Arizona to question suspects they stop or arrest about their immigration status, the state attorney general said in an advisory opinion. Ken Cuccinelli said law-enforcement officers can query people in connection with criminal matters only. The authority to ask about whether immigrants are in the country [...]

UVa challenges Cuccinelli in filing over climate work

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: July 26, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for records related to a former University of Virginia professor’s climate change research is intended to challenge his conclusions rather than uncover fraud, the school said in court papers last week. Cuccinelli, a global warming skeptic, is investigating whether Michael Mann defrauded taxpayers by using manipulated data to obtain state [...]

Judge to rule on health care suit in 30 days

By The Associated Press
Published: July 2, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Federal Courts, Health Care Bill, Judge Henry E. Hudson

(AP) A federal judge said yesterday that he expects to rule within a month on the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the new national health care reform law. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson heard more than two hours of arguments on the same day a Virginia law took effect exempting state residents [...]

Virginia won’t join brief over funeral protest

By The Associated Press
Published: June 3, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Constitutional, U.S. Supreme Court

Virginia was one of just two states that refused to join a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday supporting the father of a Marine whose funeral drew anti-gay protesters carrying inflammatory signs. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s spokesman said concerns about freedom of expression prompted the decision to stay out of Albert Snyder’s legal battle against the fundamentalist Westboro [...]

2010 Legal Food Frenzy sets record

By Alan Cooper
Published: May 4, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Bar Association

The Richmond firm of Schettine & Nguyen PLC has won the Attorney General’s Cup for the third year in a row in the annual Legal Food Frenzy competition. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced Tuesday that Virginia’s legal community raised more than 1.7 million pounds of food during the competition from April 15 through April 16. [...]

Chief Justice convenes pro bono summit

By Alan Cooper
Published: April 28, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Bar Association

Pro bono legal efforts in Virginia are as varied as the state’s regions, according to comments Tuesday at a pro bono summit called by Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. The Charlottesville area is “blessed,” as attorney Jonathan T. Blank put it, with a vibrant local bar, an innovative legal aid organization and clinics supported [...]