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A woman who said she was assaulted on a cruise-sponsored field trip in India waited too long to sue the cruise company, a Charlottesville federal judge has ruled. Under maritime law, the company that ran the “Semester at Sea” cruise-and-study ...

Rocked by statistics that showed hundreds of thousands of Virginians are unable to drive because they failed to pay court debts, lawmakers largely ignored party lines last week to craft reforms in the use of driver’s license suspensions as a ...

Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody has been penalized in the courtroom and in the pocketbook for failing to preserve a jailhouse surveillance videotape that would have showed the last hours of an inmate who died after falling sick at the jail. ...

A proposal to decriminalize adultery in Virginia – even with paradoxical support from The Family Foundation – failed to make it out of a General Assembly committee Wednesday. The Senate Courts Committee voted 10-4 to pass by indefinitely the measure ...

Proposals to require statewide search capability for Virginia trial court records may founder in the face of cost estimates that range from $1.3 million to $1.7 million. One measure intended to open up criminal court records to statewide searches is ...

A state Senate committee has once again approved a proposal to increase the grand larceny threshold in Virginia law. Senate Bill 816 – as modified in a substitute measure – would change the felony benchmark from $200 to $500. The ...

A federal judge last month found two James Madison University officials liable for violations of the due process rights of a student suspended for five-and-a-half years after being accused of sexual misconduct. The judge concluded on summary judgment that the ...

A former Virginia lawyer was sentenced to 45 years in prison for helping her husband torment her former boss and his wife in their McLean home in 2014. The sentencing of Alecia Schmuhl again brought Leo Fisher and wife Sue ...

A Warrenton attorney has pleaded no contest to two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery after clients accused him of misconduct, court records show. Jud Fischel, 68, who has practiced in Fauquier County for four decades, was convicted Jan 20, records ...

The 2017 General Assembly is expected to be a battleground for medical providers divided over the state’s tight regulation of medical start-ups. Some physicians say they should have the right to open a surgery center or other facility without having ...