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A push by Virginia prosecutors for additional money for handling body cam video recordings, combined with the burden of new criminal discovery rules, has led to a one-year delay in long-awaited criminal discovery reforms. Virginia Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons ...

A claim to collect on a state court judgment is not precluded by the doctrine of res judicata in cases where the claim could not have been brought at the time of prior litigation, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Judge Barbara Milano Keenan Res Judicata

The ruling of a Petersburg judge may have opened opportunities to challenge local land use decisions in Virginia. The circuit judge said a Petersburg city councilman had standing as an “officer” of the locality to appeal the decision of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Joseph M. Teefey Jr. Land Use & Zoning Petersburg Circuit Court

A once-missing cellphone and the questions it raised about the credibility of an alleged assault victim led a Stafford County circuit judge to overturn a jury’s guilty verdicts and its recommended 35-year sentence this month. The judge ordered a new ...

Tagged with: Criminal Stafford County Circuit Court

After an impassioned plea from a man who spent 33 years in a Virginia prison for a killing he did not commit, a state Senate committee on Jan. 23 gave the go-ahead for a procedure to let defendants challenge convictions ...

Tagged with: Evidence General Assembly

Virginia Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan is retiring effective Sept. 1. She disclosed her plan in a Jan. 24 letter to Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons. McClanahan, 59, will have been on the high court for eight years by ...

Southwest Virginia’s Sen. Ben Chafin is urging fellow Republicans to move his sister – Judge Teresa Chafin – from the Court of Appeals to an anticipated vacancy on the state Supreme Court, sources tell the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The paper said ...

A Fairfax lawyer has agreed to a two-year license suspension for undermining his clients’ case in a residential renovation contract dispute. The suspension of John Patrick Bond by the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board follows a public reprimand in 2013 ...

A national legal services plan says it’s time for Virginia to end administrative oversight over such programs. Virginia regulates legal services plans as if they were insurance companies. The State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance enforces laws requiring review of ...

Tagged with: LegalShield

A Richmond educator who surrendered her law license 15 years ago in the face of financial lapses in her real estate practice is asking to practice again. The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board will hear the reinstatement petition of Ann ...