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Two judicial proceedings were conducted at the same time today. In one, a defendant pleaded guilty to a felony with a maximum punishment of five years, and the government will be asking for a fifth of that. In the other, ...

Tagged with: Civil Remedial Fees Criminal

The controversy over Virginia’s new “civil remedial fees” for “abusive drivers” has generated a lot of ink in the last two months. The Washington Post has made the brouhaha a little personal for the commonwealth’s lawmakers. Quite a few public ...

Tagged with: Civil Remedial Fees General Assembly Gov. Tim Kaine Traffic Offenses

Virginia Beach spent $200,000 in 2002 to put together a facial recognition security system at the Oceanfront, but the system has essentially been scrapped, reports The Virginian-Pilot. It was designed to match facial images to a computer database, but it ...

Last year, VLW reported a Richmond federal court decision that highlighted the difference between a noncompete in the sale of a business, versus an employment contract noncompete. In Western Insulation LP v. Moore, U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer awarded ...

Tagged with: Noncompete

The Norfolk office of McGuireWoods received the Attorney General’s Cup today for collecting the most food per capita of any law firm in the state during the first statewide “Legal Food Frenzy” in April. Attorney General Bob McDonnell presented the ...

Tagged with: Awards and Honors Law Firms Legal Food Frenzy

A Harrisonburg federal district judge has rejected a challenge to federal Title IX guidelines that led to the demise last year of multiple men’s sport teams at James Madison University. On Aug. 21, U.S. District Judge Glen Conrad denied a ...

Please, guys, give us—and yourselves—a break. That was the clear message, although it was said more judiciously—not judicially—because U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson was in a suit rather than in his robe, even if he did speak from the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson

The New York Times Magazine to be published Sunday has an extended article questioning the validity of the convictions of four sailors who confessed to the rape and murder of a woman in Norfolk in 1997. The story by free-lance ...

Tagged with: Criminal Gov. Tim Kaine

Here’s one for the alums of Their Majesties’ Royall Colledge of William and Mary in Virginia: The Delly has been saved. The College Delly, that is. Back story: Last September, a plan filed with the Williamsburg Architectural Review Board provided ...

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The Virginia attorney general’s office has offered to help put Anthony O. Price on a fast track to the Supreme Court of Virginia in his attack on the constitutionality of the state’s civil remedial fees. Esther Windmueller, who is representing ...