(AP) Banning the sale of wine because of a nude, bike-riding nymph on the label of the bottle. Confining campus protests to a “free-speech patio.” Keeping street performers off the Las Vegas Strip. Those were some of the actions that ...

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A regulation of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board that restricts alcohol ads in college newspapers is not facially unconstitutional, and the 4th Circuit reverses the district court’s contrary decision and remands the case for further proceedings. Both parties agree ...

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(AP) Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday made good on his promise to sue the federal government over health care overhaul legislation, saying the new law is unconstitutional because it requires people to purchase health insurance or face penalties. ...

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A public airport’s total ban on newspaper racks inside its terminals violates the First Amendment and the 4th Circuit upholds summary judgment for plaintiff newspaper publishers. We found a similar ban unconstitutional in Multimedia Pub. Co. of S.C. Inc. v. ...

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While standing by his contention that he lacks the authority to ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation as a matter of overall state policy, Gov. Bob McDonnell made it clear this afternoon that he will not tolerate ...

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Ruling that communications to others urging the death of a civil rights lawyer could not be considered a “true threat,” a Roanoke federal judge has dismissed one of the convictions of neo-Nazi William A. White. Three other convictions of threats ...

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Adulterers could no longer hide behind the Fifth Amendment in divorce cases if a bill backed by family lawyers is approved by the General Assembly. The measure would allow a judge to draw an adverse inference if a party or ...

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The City of Falls Church violates the Virginia Constitution and its own charter by making a profit on the water it sells to Fairfax County residents, Circuit Judge R. Terrence Ney ruled yesterday. Ney enjoined the city from transferring money ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected an appeal by a Christiansburg developer who was shut out in his lawsuit against a critical blogger. The blogger had mocked the appearance of construction materials stored on developer Roger Woody’s property.  Woody ...

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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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