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A judge has dismissed the stalking charge against Danville Circuit Court Clerk Gerald Gibson.
Gibson submitted an accord and satisfaction, a document indicating the accused has paid for damages and the complainant agrees that the matter can be dismissed.  The case was handled by substitute Judge R. Morgan Armstrong of Henry County, according to The Register [...]

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And the winner in the latest round between Chesterfield County Circuit Clerk Judy Worthington and Chesterfield Chief Judge Michael C. Allen is…
Allen.
This morning the Supreme Court of Virginia entered a terse one-page order denying Worthington’s requests for a writ of prohibition and a writ of mandamus against Allen and dismissing her petition.
The cause of a [...]

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Things must be a little prickly in the Chesterfield County Courthouse.
Judy L. Worthington, clerk of circuit court, has filed a petition for a writ of prohibition and a writ of mandamus against Chief Judge Michael C. Allen over the designation of Aubrey M. Davis Jr., an attorney and former prosecutor in the county, as a [...]

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Virginians don’t trust our court system as much as they trust medical professionals. But they still trust the courts more than “the media.”
These are some of the findings of a telephone survey of 1,100 randomly selected Virginia residents released last week by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Of those called, 600 had no prior experience with [...]

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Norfolk Circuit Clerk George Schaefer is overseeing an ambitious project: He wants to make his office paperless. Right now, his staff scans every civil filing that comes in the door. They’ve scanned almost all the land records – which, in an old jurisdiction such as Norfolk, date back to the 1700s. The Virginian-Pilot reports that [...]

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