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Was it a grand gesture on a moonlit night? That first flush of new parenthood? We don’t really get the details in Miller v. Miller, decided yesterday by the Virginia Court of Appeals. But we do know now that just ...

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Congratulations to two of our Dolan Media Company sister papers for the debuts of their respective blogs. Our colleagues at the Daily Journal of Commerce in Portland have been blogging since mid-August and went live last week. And our colleagues ...

Northern Virginia will have to wait a while longer for a ruling on the constitutionality of the state’s civil remedial fees. Thaddeus Furlong, an attorney for a Centreveille man charged with reckless driving for traveling 75 mph in a 55 ...

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Today the Supreme Court of Virginia heard argument in JIRC v. Shull, the case in which the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission is seeking censure or removal of a Wise County juvenile judge who had a woman lower her pants ...

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A second Virginia Circuit Court judge was asked today to overrule a lower court decision holding the state’s civil remedial fees unconstitutional. Richmond Circuit Judge Walter W. Stout III told traffic defense attorney G. Barton Chucker and Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael ...

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The judicial nominations committee of the Virginia State Bar has found five candidates highly qualified to fill the vacancy created by the retirement Court of Appeals Judge James W. Benton Jr. They are: ? Chesterfield County Circuit Judge Michael C. ...

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President Bush yesterday nominated Richmond lawyer E. Duncan Getchell Jr. for a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But minutes after the announcement, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports, Sen. Jim Webb issued a statement blasting the choice. He ...

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Paper or plastic? It was a plastic bag that Kenney Williams pulled out of his pocket at a shopping-mall shoe store on July 3, 2005. Into that bag he stuffed a boxed pair of shoes. Without paying for the shoes, ...

A federal circuit court opinion about whether a joint with a liquor license can let its topless dancers dance fully nude is probably the last place you’d expect to find judges debating the health, or lack thereof, of Latin. Latin ...

A former bankruptcy attorney was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Leslie W. Lickstein, 54, of Fairfax, was accused of preparing a false settlement statement in the sale of a ...

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