Richmond lawyer E. Duncan Getchell Jr. has acknowledged the obvious and asked President George W. Bush to withdraw his nomination to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush nominated Getchell in September to fill the vacancy created by the ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Read More »So much for bipartisanship. All members of the Senate Courts of Justice Committee appeared to agree yesterday about the best response to the state’s much-maligned civil remedial fees: repeal them as soon as possible and make refunds to those who ...
Tagged with: Civil Remedial Fees General Assembly Gov. Tim Kaine
Read More »Animal rights activists have tried for years to get Virginia’s laws on animal fighting changed to protect the four-legged of the world, with little to show for it. After the embarassment of the Michael Vick dogfighting case here in the ...
Tagged with: General Assembly
Read More »Our DC-based colleague over at Lawyers USA, Kim Atkins, was down at the U.S. Supreme Court today, listening to argument in a case from Portsmouth, Virginia v. Moore. It’s a search case that has already been through the Supreme Court ...
Tagged with: Search & Seizure U.S. Supreme Court
Read More »The federal criminal case of former Lynchburg Mayor Carl R. Hutcherson Jr. is over. Hutcherson was convicted last year of fraud and other counts but appealed those convictions to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The government also appealed, ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Fraud
Read More »Attorney General Bob McDonnell has filed papers for the state to intervene in the Episcopal Church case in Northern Virginia. The case, tried last fall, pits the diocese against 11 congregations that want to break away; millions of dollars in ...
Read More »You probably don’t have this much interest in interest. The Supreme Court of Virginia takes 49 pages, including a five-page concurrence, to untangle the mess created by two jury trials, two earlier appeals, the specification by a jury of an ...
Tagged with: Civil Procedure Supreme Court of Virginia
Read More »No expert testimony is needed to establish that a dialysis center was negligent in placing a patient in a chair that collapsed—twice, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today. “The issue of the defendant’s acts of medical negligence regarding the ...
Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Supreme Court of Virginia
Read More »A new specialized license plate could be coming soon to Virginia. Its focus group? Drunken drivers. A newly proposed law would order Virginia drivers with three or more DUI convictions to sport bright yellow license plates with red characters – ...
Tagged with: DUI General Assembly
Read More »A Department of Motor Vehicles record that a defendant was notified of his habitual offender status by law enforcement did not establish that he received actual notice of his determination as an habitual offender, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled ...
Tagged with: Criminal U.S. Supreme Court
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