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Public Defender group to honor Judge Hogshire

May 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Circuit Courts, Lawyers and Law Firms

The Citizens Advisory Committee for the Albemarle-Charlottesville Public Defender Office will present the 2013 Clarence Earl Gideon Award to Charlottesville Circuit Judge Edward Hogshire. The award will be presented for the first time in 2013, in the 50th anniversary year of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, finding that [...]

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Give it up for the special grand jury

February 7th, 2013 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts

A judge will routinely thank a petit jury for its service. Now, a Norfolk judge has gone on record with his gratitude to a special grand jury at the end of their months-long term. Last March 14, the Norfolk Circuit Court convened a special grand jury to investigate possible criminal activity within the Norfolk Community [...]

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Circuit courts using new cover sheets for civil actions

November 16th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Supreme Court of Virginia

What’s your lawsuit about? It should be easier to tell with the new cover sheet published by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Attorneys filing circuit court civil actions are asked to use the new cover sheet form available at the court’s website. The court modified the uniform cover sheet at the behest of the 2012 [...]

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Va. Supreme Court allows break up of mining company

September 27th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Civil Cases, Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia has refused to block the dissolution of a family-controlled company that runs a profitable kyanite mine in Buckingham County. In a terse order dated Tuesday, the court denied the motion by The Disthene Group Inc. for a stay of the dissolution order pending an appeal of the trial court’s decision. [...]

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Mining company would be split under judge’s order

August 31st, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Civil Cases

A 67-year-old family-owned mining business could be broken up and parceled out under a judge’s “drastic” remedy for the company’s oppression of minority shareholders. Fairfax County Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush concluded the Disthene Group Inc. – which owns a profitable Kyanite mine in Buckingham County – is controlled by a domineering shareholder who is [...]

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Court turns tables, jails complaining mom for contempt

August 9th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Criminal Cases, Virginia Court of Appeals

A trial court turned the tables on a mother who claimed a father violated a protective order, and jailed the mother for lying to the court. The father foiled the mother’s attempt to have him punished by secretly videotaping his pickup of their child for visitation. The mother landed in jail for contempt after an [...]

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Valet who struck pedestrian will serve one year in jail

July 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Criminal Cases, Richmond

A former hotel valet parking attendant who struck and killed a pedestrian on a downtown Richmond sidewalk will spend a year in jail. Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo sentenced Paul Gray Jr. to five years with four suspended for the involuntary manslaughter of 23-year-old Josephine Stone, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. The accident occurred as [...]

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Man jailed for refusing to answer deposition question

July 6th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Civil Cases

A Botetourt County man was jailed without bond after refusing to comply with a judge’s order to respond to a deposition question in a civil suit. Danny H. Goad was charged with contempt of court after a hearing Thursday in Botetourt County Circuit Court. According to The Roanoke Times, Goad refused to comply with Circuit [...]

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Prosecutor hurt in courthouse scuffle

July 5th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Criminal Cases

Amelia County Commonwealth’s Attorney Lee Harrison was injured along with two others when a criminal defendant became violent at the Amelia County courthouse Thursday. Harrison came to the aid of a sheriff’s deputy who was attacked by an accused burglar, according to a news release from the county sheriff’s office. Harrison was taken to a [...]

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No contract ‘clawback’ for public employee

June 13th, 2012 · Comments Off · Circuit Courts, Civil Cases

A Norfolk city agency cannot collect contract damages against the supervisor of a “no-show” employee for the money the agency paid the absent employee, a Norfolk Circuit Court says. Virginia contract law does not provide a basis to hold a public employee liable for agency mismanagement, the court said. The Norfolk Community Services Board filed [...]

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