The VLW Blog

Friday’s decision by Roanoke U.S. District Judge James Turk means no delay for the April 11 scheduled trial on claims Virginia Tech paid lower salaries to women at the school’s fund raising office. Virginia Tech had asked Turk to combine that case, involving three former employees, with a separate lawsuit involving claims of sexual harassment [...]

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The Suffolk commonwealth’s attorney will not charge a shopowner who shot and killed a late-night burglar in his store, as reported by The Virginian-Pilot.

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The other shoe has dropped for Franklin lawyer J. Edward Moyler Jr., who was indicted yesterday on nine counts of embezzlement. As Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported last month, Moyler admitted taking millions from a decedent’s account. He also took over $100,000 from three other estates. Moyler is due in Suffolk Circuit Court on May 26 [...]

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A Suffolk couple admits living it up on money stolen from Virginia Beach real estate developer Alan Resh. The wife, Resh’s personal assistant for 10 years, embezzled more than $2 million through counterfeit checks and wire transfers, reports The Virginian-Pilot. The couple reportedly used the stolen money to travel overseas, buy expensive cars and a [...]

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A special prosecutor will be appointed in a Suffolk bank robbery case because Commonwealth’s Attorney Phil Ferguson is on the board of directors of the victim bank. Jim Grandfield, the public defender representing one of the suspects, alerted Circuit Court Judge Rodham Delk after learning of Ferguson’s connection to the bank, reports The Virginian-Pilot. Ferguson’s [...]

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The Virginia State Bar and Suffolk lawyer Johnnie Mizelle were preparing for a disciplinary hearing before a three-judge panel next Monday when they reached a deal: Mizelle would consent to a five-year suspension of his law license to settle charges that he groped and solicited a number of female clients. But the judges in the [...]

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A Suffolk general district judge has delayed the verdict in an assault case after getting assurances from the defense attorney, a member of the General Assembly, that lower court judges can do so, The Virginian-Pilot reports. Judge James A. Moore delayed judgment for a year in a case brought by a church secretary against a [...]

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Moonshine has a place in the popular imagination. There was Snuffy Smith, the outdated cartoon hillbilly who fought off “revenooers.” Then, there was “Thunder Road.” Not the Bruce Springsteen song off the “Born to Run” album – the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie in which a Korean War vet came home to the mountains to run [...]

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