The VLW Blog

The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear Blacksburg’s appeal in the town’s efforts to strictly regulate a proposed large-scale retail development, widely assumed to be a Wal-Mart.  The writ, granted yesterday, is posted here by The Roanoke Times. Previously, the Times wrote that a ruling in the case could set a precedent in Virginia land-use [...]

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A Baptist-run retirement home in the Roanoke suburbs is the focus of a property tax case argued today before the Supreme Court of Virginia. As reported by The Roanoke Times, local government leaders say the high court’s decision on The Glebe could affect how similar church-controlled institutions are taxed. Botetourt County argues that religion plays [...]

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Montgomery County today filed suit in Richmond Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of the state’s public funding of a planned intermodal rail facility.  The complaint is here.  In a news release, county leaders lay out their case for opposition to the project.  According to the county, the state funding plan violates two sections of the [...]

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Roanoke lawyers honored the memory of the late Circuit Judge Jack Coulter at a bar meeting Tuesday.  Both Circuit Judge Clifford R. Weckstein and retired District Judge James P. Brice (right) recalled Judge Coulter not only as a distinguished jurist, but also as “a man of good humor and fellowship.” Weckstein said that Judge Coulter [...]

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Del. Terrie L. Suit, R-Virginia Beach, will leave the House of Delegates next month to take a lobbying job with Richmond-based Williams Mullen, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Suit (right) will work with the government relations team, headed by former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. Under state law, Suit won’t be able to lobby her ex-colleagues for a year, [...]

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The Virginia State Bar has put together a web page listing all of the various programs and proposals aimed at protecting the public from dishonest or neglectful lawyers.  Bar president Manuel A. Capsalis, who has made client protection a leading issue for his term, recently brought together various committees to address reforms.

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Michael Vick’s efforts to reorganize his finances through bankruptcy continues to be bogged down by difficulty in determining just what he has – and where it has gone. The Daily Press has an account of yesterday’s hearing, which raised the possibility that family members will have to return money and gifts from Vick in the [...]

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W. Taylor Reveley III is no longer interim president at the College of William and Mary. The college’s board of visitors decided yesterday to forego a national search to fill the position and named Reveley to head the school for at least three years. Reveley was dean of the college’s law school and a finalist [...]

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LeRoy F. Millette Jr. was formally invested today as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who elevated Millette from Prince William County Circuit Court to the Virginia Court of Appeals last year and to the Supreme Court last month, was part of the festivities. So were many legislators, who [...]

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A Boy Scout who was infected by a toxic strain of E. coli at a Virginia scout camp today filed suit against a California food supplier, according to a law firm news release. The suit naming S & S Foods of California was filed in Augusta County Circuit Court.  In August, 84 people at the [...]

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