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Entries from July 2009

Obama names Heaphy for Western District

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · U.S. Attorney

President Obama nominated Timothy Heaphy, a partner at McGuireWoods LLP, today to be the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia. Heaphy graduated from the University of Virginia in 1986 and from its law school in 1991.He was a law clerk for Justice John A. Terry of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals [...]

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Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame…

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · Criminal Cases, Washington County

Tony Richardson, the former police chief of Damascus, was in court yesterday for sentencing. Richardson previously had pleaded guilty to eight drug-dealing charges and one weapons charge. His lawyer, Anthony Anderson, told Washington County Circuit Judge Birg Sergent that Richardson did it to impress a woman with whom he was romantically involved. The ex-chief was “led astray” [...]

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Ethics allegation against assistant AG dismissed

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · Criminal Cases, Virginia attorney general, Virginia State Bar

An allegation of an ethical violation by the director of the capital litigation unit for the Virginia attorney general’s office has been dismissed at the request of the lawyer appointed to prosecute the case. The charge against Katherine Baldwin Burnett stemmed from a letter drafted more than a decade ago that the AG’s office suggested [...]

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Montgomery County judges recuse themselves from VT suit

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · Virginia Tech

The Virginia Tech shooting lawsuits have been assigned to Judge Colin Gibb of Pulaski since the circuit judges of Montgomery County cited conflicts of interest. The families of shooting victims Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson are suing the state, Virginia Tech, and several university and mental health officials reports the Associated Press. Also named is [...]

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Lawyer lands 73-pound cobia

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Environmental Law

We know we could be opening quite a can of worms by posting lawyer fish stories here, but it’s hard to resist. Here’s a shot of Richmond solo Ed Meade struggling to hold up his 62-inch, 73-pound cobia at a scale in Deltaville.  Ed says he caught it Saturday on a live bluefish while chumming [...]

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Carr gets Chesterfield judgeship

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Judicial Elections

Twelfth Circuit judges have appointed D. Gregory Carr, a substitute judge and partner in the firm of Bowen, Champlin, Carr, Foreman & Rockecharlie, to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court that covers Chesterfield County and Colonial Heights. Carr succeeds Judge Harold W. Burgess Jr., who was elevated to circuit court earlier this year. The [...]

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AG alleges VCPA violation by employment companies

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Attorney General Bill Mims is accusing three related companies of defrauding job-seekers in Hampton Roads. The complaint in Norfolk Circuit Court alleges that Virginia Employment Services Inc., Virginia Personnel Inc. and New Beginnings Inc. violated the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. They charged consumers hundreds of dollars in “membership” fees and promised “guaranteed” jobs but offered [...]

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Gas station will pay $2,200 for price gouging

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Lynchburg

A Lynchburg area gas station cut a deal with the attorney general’s office for charging $5.399 per gallon as Hurricane Ike approached last September. Timberlake Citgo is setting aside $200 to give partial refunds to the 29 customers who filled up their tanks at the gouged price, reports The News & Advance. Also, the store [...]

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Treasurer accused of theft at upscale community

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Criminal Cases

Michael Comer, the treasurer of a homeowners group at a Charlottesville-area gated community, is accused of taking more than $666,000 from the organization’s accounts. Comer had been missing since July 1, when he failed to show up for a meeting to discuss an audit of the Glenmore Community Association’s finances, reports The Daily Progress. His [...]

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Terrorist sentenced to life

July 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · 4th Circuit, Terrorism

A Virginia man convicted of plotting to kill President George W. Bush was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. The Washington Post reports that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali of Falls Church was convicted in 2005 of joining an al-Qaeda conspiracy to mount a series of attacks and assassinations in the United States. The U.S. Court [...]

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