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 ...
Read More »Vick judge talks to media
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 ...
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Read More »Murder, rape convictions questioned
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 ...
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Read More »Williamsburg’s College Delly won’t be a Starbucks
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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Read More »Let’s go to the Supreme Court, AG says
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 ...
Read More »Locals fare well on ‘Best Firms for Women’ list
Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a consulting outfit, have published for the first time a list of “The Best Law Firms for Women.” Fifty firms nationally were named, based on an application that covered issues important “to the ...
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Read More »Suit to block civil fees filed in Roanoke
Attorneys for an 81-year-old woman filed suit today in Roanoke County Circuit Court to block enforcement of Virginia’s civil remedial fees. The attorneys—John P. Fishwick Jr. and John E. Lichtenstein of Roanoke and Charles Van Hoback of Salem—contend that Virginia ...
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Read More »Henrico Circuit judge upholds civil remedial fees
In Commonwealth v. Price, an opinion released this afternoon, Henrico County Circuit Judge L.A. Harris Jr. upheld the civil remedial fees for “dangerous drivers” under Virginia Code § 46.2-206.1. Defendant Anthony O. Price argued the fees are unconstitutional, in that ...
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Read More »On the off-ramp to adultery
So you got one of those EZ-Pass things that you stick on your windshield, allowing you to zip through a toll plaza and avoid a long line. Better stay on the marital straight and narrow. The Associated Press has a ...
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Read More »McGuireWoods names new managing partner
McGuireWoods, the Richmond-based legal giant, has a new managing partner, Thomas E. Cabaniss (see picture at right). Cabaniss, a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office and the first managing partner from outside Richmond, succeeds William J. Strickland, who held the ...
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