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Fairfax Circuit Judge Gaylord L. Finch Jr. wasn’t included on the list of judges to be reelected by the General Assembly on Jan. 22. The Northern Virginia delegation asked the House and Senate Courts committees to hold back certification, pending their review of his record. Domestic relations litigants and a group of parents who opposed [...]

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The Workers’ Compensation Commission has decided to extend the time allowed to file appellate written statements with the commission, from 15 days for appellant, with 10 more for appellee, to 30 days and an additional 15 days. Litigants routinely request extra time for briefing, often because they’re pursuing settlement, according to Chief Deputy Commissioner James [...]

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Lloyd Coleman Sullenberger of Orange, former judge of the 16th Circuit, passed away Wednesday. He was 68. Judge Sullenberger was a graduate of the University of Virginia, according to his obituary in The News Leader. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard and earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary. He [...]

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Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused in an $8 billion fraud case, was located and served with civil papers in Fredericksburg yesterday. Stanford is accused of perpetrating one of the nation’s largest-ever financial frauds, reports The Washington Times. He was ordered to turn over his passport, but was not arrested, nor is he currently facing criminal [...]

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The House and Senate Courts of Justice Committees will interview tomorrow Chief Deputy Attorney General William C. Mims, who is expected to be elected to fill Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell’s unexpired term, and candidates for more than 25 judicial vacancies. The committees must certify candidates as being qualified before they can be considered for [...]

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The lobbyist who contended that The New York Times libeled her by accusing her of an affair with Sen. John McCain has settled her suit against the newspaper. No money changed hands, but attorneys for Vicki Iseman contend that she received “an unconditional retraction,” although the newspaper disputes that its “Note to Readers” goes quite [...]

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When we link to other internet sites on this blog, or on the main VLW Web site, we generally embed the address of the site into the text.  That underlines the text and makes it a “hyperlink,”  the commonly recognized method of referring people from one Web page to another page, somewhere else on the [...]

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Former Floyd County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gordon E. Hannett Jr. has agreed to pay $3,500 and to perform 100 hours of community service to avoid trial on charges of stealing the hard drives from computers in the prosecutor’s office. The charges will be dropped if he performs by April 16. As reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, [...]

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The Virginia Fair Trial Project, an organization dedicated to improving criminal defense for the poor, will go out of business at the end of the month. The  group had hoped to continue operations with $100,000 in grant money from the Virginia Law Foundation.  In an e-mail to members and others, VFTP director Betsy Wells Edwards [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia will allow the Virginia State Bar to once again post on its Web site disciplinary information about a lawyer before the time for filing an appeal has expired. The court caught the bar by surprise in March by directing the VSB to remove such information from the site. The court [...]

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