The VLW Blog

Well, certainly not a Judicial Hellhole as defined by the American Tort Reform Association in its annual report on what it views as the worst places to try a case from the civil defendant’s point of view. West Virginia takes quite a beating, and Maryland gets slapped around a little, but the only reference to [...]

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Lawyers for four Gloucester County supervisors “disregarded good billing judgment and went straight for the stars,” according to a motion filed Tuesday by substitute Commonwealth’s Attorney John “Jack” T. Randall. Randall issued the motion in response to the attempt by the supervisors to collect $119,776.53 in attorney fees from the Gloucester County Citizens for Accountable [...]

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The deadline for seeking bar association endorsements for a pending vacancy on the Virginia Court of Appeals isn’t until Dec. 29. But already, three names of potential candidates have surfaced. They are: • Arlington Circuit Judge Joanne F. Alper • Leesburg lawyer Alexander N. Levay Jr. • Loudoun County Circuit Judge Burke F. McCahill. All [...]

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The ACLU of Virginia thinks those angry Gloucester County citizens who tried to oust four county supervisors should not be penalized for their activism.  The ACLU is announcing that it will consider coming to the citizens’ defense if they are ordered to pay the supervisors’ legal fees. The supervisors claim more than $100,000 in legal [...]

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Don’t try this in Virginia, but it appears to have worked in Australia – up to a point. Frustrated at not being able to serve a foreclosure notice by conventional means, an Australian lawyer sent the legal documents to a couple by an attachment to the woman’s Facebook account. “It’s somewhat novel, however we do [...]

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William Courtney King Jr., a civic leader and long-time Roanoke attorney, died this past Sunday. He was 85. Mr. King served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After working in New York City, he practiced law in the City of Roanoke for approximately 40 years. Mr. King was a past [...]

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Only two of about 60 incumbent judges encountered serious flak when they appeared Thursday before the House and Senate Courts of Justice Committees. Sixth District J&DR Judge Jacqueline R. Waymack had to contend with a finding by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission that she failed to avoid the appearance of impropriety in a bond [...]

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After three free expression advocacy groups filed a civil suit to overturn Virginia’s campaign button ban on behalf of two Obama supporters, now comes word that a voter in Madison County actually was arrested and charged after refusing to cover up her McCain T-shirt. The plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit complied with requests by election [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia dropped the other shoe today in the second of two wrongful death cases involving charities that it heard in October. As we reported here last week, the court reinstated by unpublished order a dismissal by a judge who concluded that the plaintiff had not shown the gross negligence required to [...]

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That must be what a Christiansburg woman has been thinking for the past seven months. Here’s a lady who gets a parking ticket at a middle school for parking in the bus lanes.  Obviously displeased about the ticket, she yells back at the cop, “Drop dead, fat—,” as she drives away. If only she had [...]

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