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After three free expression advocacy groups filed a civil suit to overturn Virginia’s campaign button ban on behalf of two Obama supporters, now comes word that a voter in Madison County actually was arrested and charged after refusing to cover ...

Tagged with: Elections

The Supreme Court of Virginia dropped the other shoe today in the second of two wrongful death cases involving charities that it heard in October. As we reported here last week, the court reinstated by unpublished order a dismissal by ...

Tagged with: Negligence Noncompete Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia dropped the other shoe today in the second of two wrongful death cases involving charities that it heard in October. As we reported here last week, the court reinstated by unpublished order a dismissal by ...

Tagged with: Negligence Noncompete Supreme Court of Virginia

That must be what a Christiansburg woman has been thinking for the past seven months. Here’s a lady who gets a parking ticket at a middle school for parking in the bus lanes.  Obviously displeased about the ticket, she yells ...

That must be what a Christiansburg woman has been thinking for the past seven months. Here’s a lady who gets a parking ticket at a middle school for parking in the bus lanes.  Obviously displeased about the ticket, she yells ...

An Amelia County Sheriff’s Office employee can pursue her age discrimination complaint, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Dec. 9. In Ray v. Amelia County Sheriff’s Office, the appellate panel vacated a Richmond U.S. District Court’s dismissal of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

One of my memorable legal experiences was helping to sue a small-town psychic.  Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, to learn that “Miss Stella” has become a well-known psychic scammer on both coasts. I hadn’t given “Miss Stella” a ...

Tagged with: Fraud

One of my memorable legal experiences was helping to sue a small-town psychic.  Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, to learn that “Miss Stella” has become a well-known psychic scammer on both coasts. I hadn’t given “Miss Stella” a ...

Tagged with: Fraud

You can’t give us information about judges and order us not to disclose it, members of the House Courts of Justice Committee told representatives of the Supreme Court of Virginia this morning. At issue are judicial performance evaluation reports on ...

You can’t give us information about judges and order us not to disclose it, members of the House Courts of Justice Committee told representatives of the Supreme Court of Virginia this morning. At issue are judicial performance evaluation reports on ...