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Emailing sexually explicit photos of a minor to yourself is distribution of child pornography, the Supreme Court of Virginia said in an unpublished order released Oct. 17. The court affirmed Donald R. Hausen’s conviction on two counts of distribution under ...
Read More »McClanahan invested on the Supreme Court
Elizabeth A. McClanahan had a terrific 52nd birthday present: investiture as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. With the main courtroom packed and a crowd watching by television in three other rooms, McClanahan took the oath of office ...
Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia News
Read More »Beach lawyer surrenders license
Virginia Beach attorney John W. Hart has surrendered his license to practice law rather than face allegations that he misappropriated more than $85,000. According to Virginia State Bar documents, Hart became trustee of an irrevocable trust in 2004 and misappropriated ...
Tagged with: Ethics Virginia State Bar
Read More »Beach lawyer surrenders license
Virginia Beach attorney John W. Hart has surrendered his license to practice law rather than face allegations that he misappropriated more than $85,000. According to Virginia State Bar documents, Hart became trustee of an irrevocable trust in 2004 and misappropriated ...
Tagged with: Ethics Virginia State Bar
Read More »McClanahan invested on the Supreme Court
Elizabeth A. McClanahan had a terrific 52nd birthday present today: investiture as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. With the main courtroom packed and a crowd watching by television in three other rooms, McClanahan took the oath of ...
Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia
Read More »AG presents Food Frenzy award to own office
The 2011 Attorney General’s Cup, the prize for raising the most food per person in a law office went to the office of B. Cullen Gibson in Norfolk in the annual competition among law firms to provide food for the ...
Tagged with: Gov. Bob McDonnell Law Firms Legal Food Frenzy
Read More »AG presents Food Frenzy award to own office
The 2011 Attorney General’s Cup, the prize for raising the most food per person in a law office went to the office of B. Cullen Gibson in Norfolk in the annual competition among law firms to provide food for the ...
Tagged with: Gov. Bob McDonnell Law Firms Legal Food Frenzy
Read More »Elderly man dies after run-in over remote
The estate of an unhappy Verizon customer who was run over and killed by a company technician has reached a $550,000 settlement with the company.
Tagged with: Wrongful Death
Read More »Court to review ruling on Dead Man’s Statute
The Supreme Court of Virginia will review a Roanoke trial judge’s ruling that a physician’s medical notes provided corroboration for the physician’s testimony that he advised a patient to see an endocrinologist because he suspected the patient had Cushing’s syndrome. ...
Read More »IT contractor wins noncompete case
A Fairfax judge has awarded $172,395 to an information technology company whose former subcontractor went to work for a competitor days after leaving the plaintiff company. The plaintiff, Preferred Systems Solutions Inc., had a contract with the federal government for ...
Tagged with: Contract Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge R. Terrence Ney
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