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With elaborate preparations, Virginia courts are holding jury trials again, even in the midst of the pandemic. Henrico County was first, holding jury selection in a two-day drug case on Sept. 15. But Stafford County and the U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Coronavirus Henrico County Circuit Court Judge James S. Yoffy Jury trials Stafford County Circuit Court U.S. District Court - Western District

A Fairfax lawyer is questioning a promise by Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano to continue prosecuting animal cruelty cases. On Aug. 19, WDVM-TV reported that the Fairfax commonwealth’s attorney’s office was no longer prosecuting animal misdemeanor charges and was cutting the ...

Tagged with: Animal cruelty Fairfax County Steve Descano

There are just a couple of days left to participate in the Virginia Bar Association’s Legal Food Frenzy event. The event, now in its 14th year, is an annual competition amongst legal professionals, law offices, courts and/or law schools to ...

A Richmond lawyer, doctor and pastor have come together to educate on health disparities in the Black community during COVID-19. In March, Rudene Mercer Haynes – a finance lawyer at Hunton Andrews Kurth in Richmond – was introduced by a ...

Tagged with: Coronavirus Good Works Health Care

A June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has opened courthouse doors for a lawsuit filed by a Staunton man who says he was fired for being homosexual. The federal justices ruled June 15 that Title VII covers discrimination on ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District U.S. Supreme Court

A critically injured Virginia truck driver is not covered by his employer’s uninsured motorist policy, even though the 2015 assault that put him in the hospital arose from a dispute over the way he was fueling his truck. The injured ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck Motor vehicles Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Bankruptcy lawyers who practice in the Eastern District of Virginia could lose their ability to e-file if they fail to register with the bar of the U.S. District Court. This decision follows new protocols by the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy E-filing U.S. Bankruptcy Court U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A factory worker left disabled and in pain from a 2018 industrial accident has recovered $8 million in a settlement with defendants who sold and installed a glue-spreader machine that lacked “essential” protective panels. The plaintiff’s hair became caught in ...

Tagged with: Products Liability Settlement

Two Virginia circuit court clerks have been ordered to pay nearly $2 million in fees and costs in a lawsuit filed by a news service seeking prompt access to newly filed lawsuits. The lawsuit in Norfolk federal court reportedly brought ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice fees Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Virginia lawyers and business interests are overwhelmingly in favor of expanding the jurisdiction of the state Court of Appeals to provide an appeal of right in every circuit court case. Criminal lawyers and civil trial lawyers offered caveats and suggested ...

Tagged with: Appeal of right Appeals Virginia Court of Appeals