The VLW Blog

Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center hopes to compete with a nearby hospital for the right to build a new cancer service, but first it has to overcome missing a deadline for its application.
The hospital had planned to compete if Mary Washington filed a plan for a cancer center. However, when Mary Washington filed an application in [...]

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Two prosecutors say it’s wrong that Duncan Meekins is still behind bars when he helped put the infamous Briley brothers in the electric chair.
Robert J. Rice and Warren Von Schuch, who prosecuted the case 30 years ago, are set to meet next month with Virginia Parole Board officials to plead for Meekins’ release. According to the Richmond [...]

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Lawyers from points beyond Richmond can breathe a sigh of relief.
An occasional appearance before a local court or state agency does not mean the lawyer can be haled into court before a famously generous Richmond jury.
Staunton lawyer Boyce E. Brannock, sued in Richmond Circuit Court, managed to get the legal malpractice action transferred to Staunton [...]

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The University of Richmond law school debuted its outreach program in downtown Richmond yesterday.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, UR Downtown will offer three programs that involve UR law students:

The Richmond Families Initiative will study ways to enhance programs run by local agencies to support families.
The Harry L. Carrico Center for Pro Bono Service will provide [...]

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Richmond officials will pull the plug on two pending appeals at the Virginia Supreme Court that would test the limits of Richmond’s “strong mayor” system.
With taxpayers having already spent more than $1.1 million in legal fees, Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones ended the fight between the City Council and former Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, reports [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia is hearing the appeal of a group of disabled Virginians who claim they don’t have equal access to the state lottery.
The complaint alleges that many lottery outlets are in violation of both national and state disabilities acts by not making their facilities wheelchair-accessible, and therefore denying handicapped individuals equal access [...]

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Best-selling author John Grisham will be the host of a fund-raiser for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society and the Legal Aid Justice Center Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Toad’s Place, 140 Virginia St.in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom.Virginia First Lady Anne Holton, a former legal aid attorney and juvenile and district relations district court judge in
Richmond, [...]

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The Times-Dispatch has an article on its Web site about the much-delayed plan for getting the two criminal general district courtrooms out of the deteriorating Public Safety Building.
The plan now is to move them to a renovated Manchester Courthouse, with construction to begin in June and be completed in early 2010.

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Michael Vick could play professional football in 2009, but he would have to shake off two years of rust and miss much of the pre-season training for whatever team is willing to accept bad publicity and uncertain performance.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced Vick today to 23 months in prison on a federal dogfighting [...]

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The idea of naming the new federal courthouse in downtown Richmond after Judges Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige Jr. has been circulating for about two years, with a push from local bar groups.
Last October, Sens. John Warner and George Allen introduced legislation to secure the name, but it went nowhere.
Allen [...]

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