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Low-income parents of dependent children would get a break in garnishment proceedings under a bill introduced for the 2009 Virginia General Assembly session. House Bill 1668 would offer garnishment exemptions, starting with $51 a week for one child, for parents ...

The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is beefing up its legal team in preparation for appeal of a series of court decisions that left the diocese without title to millions of dollars worth of church property. Fairfax Circuit Judge Randy I. ...

Just as we finish wiping our eyes after our annual viewing of George Bailey’s rescue by the community he served, now comes word that Bedford Falls has been sold. No, not the fictional Bedford Falls, the setting for Frank Capra’s ...

Tagged with: Real Estate

Just as we finish wiping our eyes after our annual viewing of George Bailey’s rescue by the community he served, now comes word that Bedford Falls has been sold. No, not the fictional Bedford Falls, the setting for Frank Capra’s ...

Tagged with: Real Estate

Two Western District federal judges say they support a proposal for a “re-entry court” where inmates returning to society regularly report on their progress in group meetings with the judges.  Both Chief U.S. District Judge James P. Jones and District ...

Two Western District federal judges say they support a proposal for a “re-entry court” where inmates returning to society regularly report on their progress in group meetings with the judges.  Both Chief U.S. District Judge James P. Jones and District ...

In an unusual civil lawsuit arising from a case of elder abuse, a Pittsylvania County judge has awarded more than a million dollars to an 84-year-old illiterate retired farmer who claimed his daughter scammed him out of his life savings ...

A Harrisonburg lawyer is battling to keep the $200,000 punitive damages he won this fall for the victim of a crash caused by a drunken driver. The verdict was returned Oct. 31 by a jury in Rockingham County, one of ...

Real estate lawyers are taking a dim view of a bill introduced for the 2009 Virginia General Assembly session designed to force disclosure of key members of corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and business trusts when buying property. House Bill 1640 was ...

The trouble is well into six figures for two Northern Virginia restaurateurs and their associates who were held liable this year for stealing the style and the recipes of a popular chain of Buffalo wing restaurants.  U.S. District Judge James ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property