Court’s study panel: Keep judicial map as is

Counting cases, and buying time

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 21, 2011
Tags: General Assembly, Judicial Boundaries, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser

Virginia’s court system may have won some breathing room from a threat of wholesale redistricting by the state legislature, for this year at least. Last year, two bills were introduced that would have redrawn existing judicial circuit and district boundaries and reduced the number of judges authorized by the Virginia Code from 402 to 382. [...]

Legislators hear boundary study panel’s report

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 20, 2011
Tags: General Assembly, Judge Thomas D. Horne, Judicial Boundaries, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, Supreme Court of Virginia News

Key legislators got a look last week at a court committee’s work on judicial redistricting in Virginia, and it appears the committee is sticking with “new math.” Instead of a wholesale redistricting that would reduce the number of circuits, districts and judges in the commonwealth, as two legislators proposed earlier this year, the committee will [...]

Judicial study group: Use chief judges to balance regional caseloads

By Peter Vieth
Published: September 16, 2011
Tags: General Assembly, Judge Norman A. Thomas, Judge Thomas D. Horne, Judicial Boundaries, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, Virginia State Bar

Virginia’s existing court districts and circuits are so intertwined with other government services that they should not be changed, at least for now. That’s the conclusion of a court-appointed study panel after a fast but intense study of Virginia’s judicial map, members report. But the Judicial Boundary Realignment Study Committee will suggest a way to [...]

Drive time factors into redrawing boundaries

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 15, 2011
Tags: General Assembly, Judge Norman A. Thomas, Judicial Boundaries, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, Supreme Court of Virginia News

Worries about windshield time for judges assigned to duty beyond a home court surfaced at last night’s Hampton Roads hearing on judicial redistricting proposals. The July 14 hearing in Portsmouth was the fourth in a series of six public hearings scheduled by the Virginia Supreme Court’s Judicial Boundary Realignment Study Committee. Drive time is a [...]