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Some state senators on Feb. 9 sharply questioned the accuracy of figures used to decide which empty judgeships are filled in Virginia trial courts. As the Senate squelched a bid to fill two circuit court vacancies in Loudoun and Prince ...

A U.S. citizen hired by a foreign government’s cultural agency did not have protection from alleged sexual harassment, despite references to U.S. employment laws in his job offer and the agency’s personnel guidelines, an Alexandria federal court has ruled. Foreign ...

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A husband could not reopen his divorce case because of wife’s lie about her concealment of a painting during the 1999 divorce proceed­ings; the trial court did not err in finding that wife committed intrinsic fraud that was not a ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Finding no error, the Court of Appeals upholds an award of primary physical custody to father and joint legal custody to both parents, who never married. The parties’ child was born with schi­zenepahly, a disease that affects her fine motor ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals

A mental health therapist who had sex with his teenage counseling client has his felony convictions of taking indecent liberties with a child as one in a custo­dial or supervisory relationship affirmed by the Court of Appeals; admission of text ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

The Supreme Court of Virginia up­holds lifetime probation and an order of no contact with the victims of his crimes as a condition of suspended portions of defendant’s sentences pursuant to his guilty pleas to the statutory rape of his ...

Tagged with: Criminal Supreme Court of Virginia

An Arlington County jury has found for the son of a well-known local restaurateur in a multi-million-dollar tug-of-war over assets left after the man’s death. The case could be headed for the Supreme Court of Virginia. Tom Sarris owned restaurants ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia Wills & Trusts

Defendant school officials, including a resource officer who identified a leaf in plaintiff middle-school student’s cinch sack as marijuana despite three field tests yielding negative results, win summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit filed in Lynchburg U.S. ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

A federal contractor was not entitled to liquidated damages from a subcontractor it hired for grounds maintenance, the Supreme Court of Virginia said on Oct. 22. The contractor, Baistar Mechanical Inc., was hired by the federal government to care for ...