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The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to review a ruling by the Virginia Court of Appeals that domestic relations lawyers say makes adoptions more difficult and acrimonious. The Court of Appeals panel said in Todd v. Copeland (VLW 010-7-083) ...

The Town of Leesburg can impose a 100 percent surcharge on water and sewer consumption rates to customers who live in Loudoun County, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled yesterday. The ruling reversed the finding of Circuit Judge Thomas D. ...

Although a nurse who assisted a now-deceased doctor in a difficult delivery might have had an interest in avoiding her own liability for the baby’s birth injuries, her testimony is not barred under the dead man’s statute because it failed ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia issued an unpublished order today in Nageotte v. Board of Supervisors of Stafford County, in addition to deciding 19 cases by opinion, 12 of them criminal decisions. A list of the cases and a summary ...

Noting the right to a jury trial is “sacred” under the Virginia Constitution, the Supreme Court of Virginia has affirmed a $5-million jury verdict for a worker injured at a Portsmouth shipyard. The case now has produced two Virginia Supreme ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia had three occasions today to consider the concept of reaching the right result for the wrong reason in criminal cases. It issued two opinions based on the issue, using one of them to provide a ...

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A wrongful death case dismissed due to three years of inactivity can be reinstated within a year without running afoul of the statute of limitations, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday. The unanimous court reversed an Albemarle County judge ...

Wellyn Flores Chan appears to be a good candidate to have an extraordinary writ granted on her behalf, but the Supreme Court of Virginia appeared to think yesterday that the writs she received may be a bit too extraordinary. Chan ...

Guns – in two different contexts – were a major topic for the Supreme Court of Virginia today. In two cases, the court revisited Virginia Code § 18.2-53.1, the statute that provides for a mandatory penalty of three years for ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has granted appeals in two personal injury cases in which juries sided with defendants even though they admitted liability. In a case from Gloucester County, Cousins v. Food Lion LLC, Record No. 101570, a store ...