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The Supreme Court of Virginia has cancelled a hearing over a lawyer’s use of Virginia’s legislative continuance statute to get an 18-month delay in filing of an appellate brief. Del. Jeffrey Campbell, R-Marion, filed a brief on behalf of his ...

Even though a father had a protective order in place against the mother, a circuit judge still was within his discretion to order joint legal custody of the divorced couple’s child, the Court of Appeals has ruled in a case ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Bruce D. Albertson Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Rockingham County Circuit Court Virginia Court of Appeals News

A bankruptcy judge has agreed to allow former LeClairRyan partner Michele Craddock to pursue collection of her more than $885,000 gender discrimination arbitration award from the firm’s insurance company. Craddock can avoid the bankruptcy stay on collection actions automatically imposed ...

A Fairfax County judge has overturned a woman’s shoplifting conviction in a decision that highlights a defense lawyer’s obligation to understand the immigration consequences of a criminal plea deal. As a result of an ill-advised plea agreement, a one-time lawful ...

Tagged with: Criminal Fairfax County Circuit Court Immigration Judge Stephen C. Shannon

A pain management physician who showed up with a gun outside his former Albemarle County office does not have insurance coverage for two tort actions filed by colleagues allegedly traumatized by the incident, a judge has ruled. The colleagues are ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

A circuit judge who believed he could not retroactively modify a pendente lite award of spousal support made a “mistake of law,” the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled. Overruling both the circuit judge and the Court of Appeals, the ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles James Maxfield Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Supreme Court of Virginia News

The Supreme Court of Virginia may question a state lawyer-legislator next month about his extended use of the state’s legislative continuance privilege. Del. Jeffrey Campbell, R-Marion, has used the legislative continuance statute to delay a Supreme Court appeal for more ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Supreme Court of Virginia News

The Court of Appeals has affirmed the malicious wounding convictions of two men for their roles in the beating of a counter protester in a Charlottesville parking garage during the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. In unanimous decisions issued Nov. ...

A Fairfax County judge has sided with a clinical psychologist who declined to turn over a teen’s mental health records in response to a subpoena in the parents’ divorce case. The psychologist said disclosure before a custody hearing could cause ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Gardiner

ALEXANDRIA – The Supreme Court of Virginia will not enact language in the Virginia Rules that would require prosecutors to disclose “particular evidence” they know of that could help a criminal defendant. The court balked at a bar recommendation opposed ...

Tagged with: Discovery Supreme Court of Virginia News