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It takes a lot to try the patience of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A persistent pro se litigant who used his pauper status to file multiple lawsuits and appeals without paying any filing fees has ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts

William H. Pauley III, a federal judge in New York City, didn’t like the case of BrandAid Marketing Corp. v. Cyberian Enterprises Ltd. or the lawyers, one of them  from Richmond, who tried it. He ruled initially in 2005 that ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar

William H. Pauley III, a federal judge in New York City, didn’t like the case of BrandAid Marketing Corp. v. Cyberian Enterprises Ltd. or the lawyers, one of them  from Richmond, who tried it. He ruled initially in 2005 that ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar

Michael Vick, professional quarterback and amateur dog trainer, looks to be smoothing his path to re-entry into the football business. Documents in the Surry County courthouse indicate that Vick will plead guilty to his new state dog fighting charges.  Resolution ...

Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. told the Virginia Judicial Council today that he will forgo the 2 percent raise the General Assembly has approved for judges. He said he will leave to the conscience of individual judges whether they ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia

A pair of amateur genealogists have concluded that those human remains found last month in Mountain Lake are those of Samuel Ira Felder, a telephone company engineer from Troy, New York, who apparently drowned in a boating accident at Mountain ...

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray W. Grubbs ruled that a Christiansburg developer failed to make out a case in his lawsuit against a community blogger who criticized the developer online. Grubbs this week dismissed the suit filed by Roger Woody ...

Tagged with: Defamation

With the commonwealth’s 13 electoral votes up for grabs this year, Virginia voters don’t have to watch the campaign from afar, as in years past.  Barack Obama turned the Roanoke Civic Center into a tent revival today for about 6,500 ...

Tagged with: Elections

While the candidates work for votes in Virginia, caravans of vendors follow the candidates, selling a vast array of campaign paraphernalia.  Dozens of vendors outside the Barack Obama rally in Roanoke today offered everything from stickers and buttons to “Obama ...

Tagged with: Elections

The Virginia State Bar Council resoundingly rejected today a proposal for mandatory legal malpractice insurance by a 60-11 vote. Almost 92 percent of 17,393 state lawyers who represent clients drawn from the public already have such insurance, and only one ...