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Nearly a year into the Virginia Supreme Court’s COVID-19 judicial emergency, courts in the Tidewater region appear set to resume jury trials later this spring. Most courts in Hampton Roads have not held a jury trial in over a year. ...

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The Virginia State Bar Council has approved measures that could make it less costly to be a Virginia lawyer. The panel that recommends policy for lawyer regulation in Virginia agreed Feb. 27 that annual assessments for the Clients’ Protection Fund ...

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A plan to offer a clean slate for many criminal defendants and a project to expand the size and jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals both survived a tumultuous General Assembly session. The legislators adjourned Monday, March 1, after a ...

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A man found to have committed fraud on a vulnerable neighbor must pay more than $100,000 in attorneys’ fees to the victim of the fraud, the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled. The case amplifies a landmark ruling from 1999, ...

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A Henrico County judge will remain as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging he and two siblings abused the protective order process to temporarily banish their father’s second wife from her home. A Henrico County police officer also is named ...

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A Fairfax County judge has refused to allow a business to claw back past salary and bonuses it paid to an allegedly dishonest former employee.  The employer’s proposed remedy is a “fantasy” under Virginia law, said Judge David A. Oblon. ...

A former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, convicted on 11 criminal counts in a week-long trial, challenged his convictions and sought an evidentiary hearing claiming one of the jurors improperly checked her Twitter account during the trial.  But ...

The General Assembly approved a new term for one sitting judge and elected 30 others to Virginia trial court benches Feb. 23. But the legislators denied a third term to Chesterfield County General District Judge Pamela O’Berry and also rejected ...

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An insurance company’s attempt to deny coverage for an insured doctor and medical practice has failed in Richmond federal court.  The carrier sought a declaratory judgment letting it off the hook, based on an allegation that the doctor altered medical ...

After hearing criticism of a field of candidates endorsed by the Virginia State Bar for new seats on an expanded Court of Appeals, House of Delegates leaders determined to reopen the application and evaluation process. The legislators said the evaluations ...