Where the plaintiff’s argument that a new Virginia statute restricting a person’s access to firearms in certain circumstances was unconstitutional and would inhibit his ability to express himself out of fear he might be subjected to the statute, was speculative ...

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

Where COVID-19 emergency orders hampered plaintiffs’ efforts to collect signatures on a petition to have the city of Norfolk adopt a “2nd Amendment Preservation” ordinance, the signature requirements in Norfolk’s city charter are not unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs. Further, ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Richard E. Gardiner Norfolk City Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where Baltimore’s short-term aerial surveillance program does not target particular individuals or violate a reasonable expectation of privacy, and seeks to meet a serious law enforcement need without burdening constitutional rights, the denial of community activists’ request for a preliminary ...

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

A majority of the judges concurred in denying an en banc rehearing of a decision finding the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by requiring students to use bathrooms matching their “biological gender” and refusing to ...

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

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