The VLW Blog

The Virginia NAACP has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Richmond demanding that the federal government be put in charge of the Nov. 4 election in Virginia. The complaint, naming Gov. Kaine as a defendant, alleges that the state failed to prepare for an unprecedented turnout of voters in the presidential election.  The Associated [...]

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Four weeks and counting. That’s how long it has been since the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered an opinion that it deemed worthy of publication. Granted, the Richmond-based federal appellate court is known for being stingier with published opinions than any other circuit court, but this is the longest stretch without a [...]

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Attorneys concerned about getting hit with sanctions because of an inadequate investigation of the facts can take relief from an unpublished order today from the Supreme Court of Virginia.In 8522 Lee Highway at Merrifield LLC v. Sonic-Manhattan Fairfax Inc., Record No. 072107, 8522 Lee Highway filed suit alleging that Sonic was trespassing on its property [...]

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Richmond-based Hunton & Williams LLP is among the major law firms looking for business opportunities from the collapse of credit and stock markets. It has formed what it calls a Financial Industry Recovery Group with lawyers experienced in all areas related to the crisis, from financial institutions to regulation and capital formation to securitization and [...]

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It takes a lot to try the patience of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A persistent pro se litigant who used his pauper status to file multiple lawsuits and appeals without paying any filing fees has finally been shown the door at the appeals court, but only after amassing a formidable [...]

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William H. Pauley III, a federal judge in New York City, didn’t like the case of BrandAid Marketing Corp. v. Cyberian Enterprises Ltd. or the lawyers, one of them  from Richmond, who tried it. He ruled initially in 2005 that both sides had committed fraud and dismissed their claims under the doctrine of  in pari [...]

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Michael Vick, professional quarterback and amateur dog trainer, looks to be smoothing his path to re-entry into the football business. Documents in the Surry County courthouse indicate that Vick will plead guilty to his new state dog fighting charges.  Resolution of those pending charges might clear the way for a halfway house placement, as reported [...]

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Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. told the Virginia Judicial Council today that he will forgo the 2 percent raise the General Assembly has approved for judges. He said he will leave to the conscience of individual judges whether they will do the same. Other state employees got the same raise, but Gov. Timothy M. [...]

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A pair of amateur genealogists have concluded that those human remains found last month in Mountain Lake are those of Samuel Ira Felder, a telephone company engineer from Troy, New York, who apparently drowned in a boating accident at Mountain Lake in 1921.  The Roanoke Times reports that the conclusion comes from brothers Jim and [...]

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Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray W. Grubbs ruled that a Christiansburg developer failed to make out a case in his lawsuit against a community blogger who criticized the developer online. Grubbs this week dismissed the suit filed by Roger Woody against Terry Ellen Carter, one of the authors of a blog called “Think, Christiansburg!“  Although [...]

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