An Abingdon U.S. District Court denies a state police investigator’s motion for a new trial on liability on a former local political candidate’s suit alleging violation of his constitutional rights. After a jury awarded plaintiff nominal damages of $1, this ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

In this suit in which two elderly plaintiffs allege defendant officers seized them by excessive force without provocation or warning and upon no probable cause, causing the 79-year-old woman to fall and hit her head and then kicking her in ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Pamela Meade Sargent U.S. District Court - Western District

An Abingdon U.S. District Court dismisses the city of Bristol and the Bristol Sheriff’s Office as defendants from plaintiff’s civil rights suit alleging defendants deliberately disregarded the danger posed by plaintiff’s cellmate, who sexually assaulted plaintiff. Plaintiff alleges defendant officers ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A Virginia inmate who alleges he suffered severe mental anguish as a result of his participation in a medical study at the University of Virginia’s Center for Addiction Research and Education has not complied with the Virginia statutory requirement that ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A Chesapeake Circuit Court upholds the Department of Motor Vehicles’ license revocation, on remand, of appellant’s personalized license plate displaying the text “ICUHAJI”; although the license holder argues his direct appeal from DMV’s second revocation of the license plate is ...

Tagged with: Chesapeake Circuit Court Civil Rights Judge John W. Brown Virginia Circuit Courts

Two deputy sheriffs who shot plaintiff five or six times as he appeared on his porch with a shotgun pointed down to investigate sounds around his home, are not entitled to summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity from ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Robert B. King

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court continues to follow its 2007 order granting father’s motion to proceed under pseudonym in his suit alleging defendant employees or agents of Albemarle County Department of Social Services pursued a false allegation that father sexually ...

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

A parent’s current suit under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act against the Fairfax County School Board, over educational services provided to her 22-year-old son who suffers from Down Syndrome and multiple cognitive and motor disabilities, is barred by res ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A trial judge had “sole” discretion to decide whether to allow cameras at defendant’s sentencing for the murder of his former girlfriend, and because the judge rejected cameras from the outset, statutory guidelines requiring a showing of “good cause” to ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Justice Donald W. Lemons Supreme Court of Virginia

The 4th Circuit rejects plaintiff prisoner’s constitutional challenge to a provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that caps recovery of attorney’s fees for an inmate’s successful civil rights claims, and upholds a district court’s award of $1.40 ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III