Where 12 Virginia voters showed the legislature had used race as the predominant factor in constructing 11 districts and the use of race was not justified by a compelling state interest, they were awarded over $4.1 million in attorneys’ fees ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Barbara Milano Keenan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Courthouse News Service prevailed in its suit alleging a lack of timely access to court records and was awarded nearly $2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs. Although the defendants argued the rates charged by Bryan Cave Leighton & Pasiner’s ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiffs allege the at-large election rules for the Virginia Beach City Council violate the Voting Rights Act, or VRA, by diluting the voting strength of minority voters, their reliance on data from the 2010 census did not render ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Gloucester County School Board’s policy requiring students to use bathrooms matching their “biological gender,” and its refusal to amend a student’s records to reflect his gender identity after his transition, were not substantially related to important governmental interests and ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Henry F. Floyd

Although sections of the anti-riot act failed to bear the requisite relation between speech and lawlessness, the convictions of two defendants for violent participation in three white supremacist rallies were affirmed because their conduct fell under the statute’s surviving provisions. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge Norman K. Moon

Although the prisoners’ rights organization that prevailed in a First Amendment suit against a jail authority and its superintendent was awarded reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, payments were limited to four attorneys rather than 10, and the hours of the ...

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

Where the League of Women Voters of Virginia and the Virginia State Board of Elections reached a settlement enjoining the witness signature requirement for absentee ballots for elections on Nov. 3, 2020, the agreement was fair and reasonable, and was ...

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

Where the supplemental report from a property owner’s real estate expert witness contained opinions about the effect of a pipeline on the property that are entirely new and different from his first report, the failure to disclose the new opinions ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the Department of Homeland Security’s new definition of “public charge” in the Immigration and Nationality Act, or INA, was permissible, a nonprofit’s challenge to the definition failed because it could not show a likelihood of success on its claim. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Judge Robert B. King

Even if the court issued a decision preventing the delisting of a statue of Robert E. Lee from The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, that would not prevent the governor from having the statue physically removed from Monument Avenue. ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District