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A Henrico County General District judge said today that he will rule next Thursday on the constitutionality of the civil remedial fees for abusive drivers. Anthony O. Price pleaded no contest before Judge Archer L. Yeatts III to a misdemeanor ...

Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau has an extended article on the U.S. Justice Department’s abandonment of the criminal investigation of the implosion of Reciprocal America, first reported in Virginia Lawyers Weekly on April 2. The article elicited more ...

Henrico General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts III today rejected an attempt to challenge Virginia’s new scheme of “abusive driver” fees, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Yeatts ruled that a general district court didn’t have the jurisdiction to stop the ...

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Political reality outweighs a nuanced view of legal ethics. The Standing Committee on Legal Ethics of the Virginia State Bar reached that conclusion last week in withdrawing advisory Legal Ethics Opinion 1829, which would have eliminated the bright-line guidance that ...

Litigators who like to catalogue race-neutral bases for striking prospective jurors can add another one that has worked in federal court in Richmond: being a veteran of a Richmond jury. A 1986 case, Batson v. Kentucky, and its progeny protect ...

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Our colleagues at the Colorado Springs Business Journal have become the latest Dolan Media Company operation to join the blogosphere. They launched their blog, the CSBJ Blog, this past Monday. Previously the CSBJ had maintained a local golf league blog. ...

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Judge James W. Benton Jr., the last of the original members of the Virginia Court of Appeals, will retire Oct. 1. Benton (photo at right) turns 64 in September. He is also the state’s senior appellate judge. A native of ...

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President Bush yesterday nominated U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. to a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Conrad (photo at right) is a judge in the Western District of North Carolina; he sits in Charlotte. ...

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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men were indicted today in Richmond federal court on federal charges related to dog fighting. U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg announced the charges late in the afternoon. Vick and the others are accused ...

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Read it and weep if you’re a plaintiff’s trial attorney—or take credit if you’re a Republican attorney general. Directorship magazine has ranked Virginia as having the second-best liability climate in the country for business. Nebraska ranked first. The magazine says ...